Triturus macedonicus, the Macedonian crested newt, is a newt species of the crested newt species complex in genus Triturus, found in the Western Balkan peninsula (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, North Macedonia, north-western Greece and south-western Bulgaria[3]).
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Urodela |
| Family: | Salamandridae |
| Genus: | Triturus |
| Species: | T. macedonicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Triturus macedonicus (Karaman, 1922)
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To the North, its range borders that of the Danube crested newt and the Northern crested newt and to the East, that of the Balkan crested newt.
It was first described as a variety of Triturus karelinii, later considered a subspecies of Triturus carnifex, and was elevated to species rank following molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2007.[4]
Triturus arntzeni was considered a synonym of T. macedonicus,[5] but this name applies in fact to a hybrid between this species and the Balkan-Anatolian crested newt (T. ivanbureschi), and thus is a synonym of both species.[6]
References
edit- ^ Martel, A.; Pasmans, F.; Crnobrnja-Isailović, J.; Denoel, M.; Litvinchuk, S.; Sotiropoulos, K. (2024). "Triturus macedonicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2024: e.T88104000A227237916. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
- ^ Frost DR. (2015). "Triturus macedonicus. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0". New York, USA: American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ^ Naumov, Borislav; Tzankov, Nikolay (2008). First record of Triturus macedonicus (Karaman, 1922) (Amphibia: Salamandridae) in Bulgaria (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-14.
- ^ Arntzen, J.W.; Espregueira Themudo, G.; Wielstra, B. (2007). "The phylogeny of crested newts (Triturus cristatus superspecies): nuclear and mitochondrial genetic characters suggest a hard polytomy, in line with the paleogeography of the centre of origin". Contributions to Zoology. 76 (4): 261–278. doi:10.1163/18759866-07604005. hdl:1887/3281595. ISSN 1383-4517.
- ^ Wielstra, B.; Litvinchuk, S. N.; Naumov, B.; Tzankov, N.; Arntzen, J. W. (2013). "A revised taxonomy of crested newts in the Triturus karelinii group (Amphibia: Caudata: Salamandridae), with the description of a new species". Zootaxa. 3682 (3): 441. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3682.3.5. hdl:1887/3281008. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25243299.
- ^ Wielstra, B.; Arntzen, J. W. (2014). "Kicking Triturus arntzeni when it's down: large-scale nuclear genetic data confirm that newts from the type locality are genetically admixed". Zootaxa. 3802 (3): 381. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3802.3.7. hdl:1887/3281030. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 24871018.
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