Lyciasalamandra billae

Lyciasalamandra billae, the bay Lycian salamander, is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae found only in Turkey. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Lyciasalamandra billae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Salamandridae
Genus: Lyciasalamandra
Species:
L. billae
Binomial name
Lyciasalamandra billae
(Franzen & Klewen, 1987)
Synonyms[2]
  • Mertensiella luschani billae Franzen and Klewen, 1987
  • Lyciasalamandra irfani Göçmen, Arikan, and Yalçinkaya, 2011
  • Lyciasalamandra yehudahi Göçmen and Akman, 2012
  • Lyciasalamandra arikani Göçmen and Akman, 2012

References

  1. Yakup Kaska, Yusuf Kumluta?, Aziz Avci, Nazan Üzüm, Can Yeniyurt, Ferdi Akarsu, Varol Tok, Ismail H. Ugurtas, Murat Sevinç, Pierre-André Crochet, Theodore Papenfuss, Max Sparreboom, Sergius Kuzmin, Steven Anderson, Mathieu Denoël 2009. Lyciasalamandra billae. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1.
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Lyciasalamandra billae". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Retrieved 11 October 2019.


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