Pleurodeles

Pleurodeles waltl

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: Pleurodelinae
Genus: Pleurodeles
Species (3): P. nebulosus – P. poireti – P. waltl

Name

Pleurodeles Michahelles, 1830: 191

• Type species: Pleurodeles waltl Michahelles, 1830, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Bradybates Tschudi, 1838: 91
• Type species: Bradybates ventricosus Tschudi, 1838, by monotypy.
• Glossoliga Bonaparte, 1839: unnumbered
• Type species: Triton poireti Gervais, 1835 by monotypy
• Bradytes Gistel, 1848: xi [replacement name for Bradybates Tschudi, 1838]
• Glossolega — Cope, 1889: 108 [incorrect subsequent spelling]
• Pleurodeles — Boulenger, 1878: 308 [as a subgenus of Triturus]

References

Primary references

• Michahelles, C. 1830. Neue südeuropäische Amphibien. Isis von Oken 23: 189–195.

Additional references

• Carranza, S. & Arnold, E.N. 2004. History of West Mediterranean newts, Pleurodeles (Amphibia: Salamandridae), inferred from old and recent DNA sequences. Systematics and Biodiversity 1(3): 327–337. DOI: 10.1017/S1477200003001221 Reference page. 
• Escoriza, D. & Hassine, J.B. 2017. Comparative larval morphology in three species of Pleurodeles (Urodela: Salamandridae). Zootaxa 4237(3): 587–592. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.3.11. Reference page. 

Links

• Frost, R.D. 2021. Pleurodeles. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.1 (21 June 2022). Electronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. DOI: 10.5531/db.vz.0001

Vernacular names

English: Ribbed Newts
日本語: トゲイモリ属

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