Mertensiella caucasica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Salamandroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Urodela Subordo: Salamandroidea

Familia: Salamandridae
Subfamilia: Salamandrinae
Genus: Mertensiella
Species: Mertensiella caucasica
Subspecies: M. c. caucasica – M. c. djanaschvilii

Name

Mertensiella caucasica (Waga, 1876)

Type locality: "altissimis montibus Caucasi, supra limites silvarum, in regione graminum" (= Grass zone above the forests on the higher elevations of the Caucasus Mountains.).

Holotype: MNHNP 6477.

Synonyms

Exaeretus caucasicus Waga, 1876
Salamandra caucasica — Boulenger, 1882
Salamandra caucasia — Knoblauch, 1905
Mertensiella caucasica — Wolterstorff, 1925
Salamandra (Mertensiella) caucasica — Özeti, 1967
Mertensiella caucasica caucasica — Tartarashvili & Bakradze, 1989
Mertensiella caucasica djanaschvilii Tartarashvili & Bakradze, 1989

References

Waga, 1876, Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris, Ser. 3, 4: 327.
Özeti, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 287.
Tartarashvili, R.V. & Bakradze, M.A. 1989. A new subspecies of salamander from western Georgia. Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia. Tbilisi 133: 177–179.
Frost, D. 2008. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.2 (15 July, 2008). Electronic Database accessible at www.research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Mertensiella caucasica
AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Mertensiella caucasica. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.
2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Mertensiella caucasica (Vulnerable) Downloaded on 10 August 2008.

Vernacular names

English: Caucasian Salamander
polski: Salamandra kaukaska