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Triturus is a genus of newts comprising the crested and the marbled newts, which are found from Great Britain through most of continental Europe to westernmost Siberia, Anatolia, and the Caspian Sea region. Their English names refer to their appearance: marbled newts have a green–black colour pattern, while the males of crested newts, which ...
The northern crested newt, great crested newt or warty newt (Triturus cristatus) is a newt species native to Great Britain, northern and central continental Europe and parts of Western Siberia. It is a large newt, with females growing up to 16 cm (6.3 in) long. Its back and sides are dark brown, while the belly is yellow to orange with dark ...
The Balkan crested newt or Buresch's crested newt (Triturus ivanbureschi) is a newt species of the crested newt species complex in genus Triturus, found in Southeastern Europe and Anatolia. [ 3 ] It was originally described as a subspecies of the southern crested newt , " Triturus karelinii arntzeni ", in 1999, [ 4 ] and later considered a full ...
Adult newts in the genus Triturus were found to breathe mainly via the skin but also through the lungs and the buccal cavity.Lung breathing is mainly used when there is a lack of oxygen in the water, or at high activity such as during courtship, breeding, or feeding.
Adolescent male marbled newt (Triturus marmoratus) [12] T. cristatus and T. marmoratus (marbled newts) overlap in some areas in France where their habitat preferences overlap; this allows them to hybridize. [13] T. cristatus has been known to occupy increasingly larger areas due to climate change fragmenting the habitat of the marbled newt ...
The Danube crested newt was described as a variety of the northern crested newt (Triturus cristatus) by C. Kiritzescu in 1903. [3] Later, it was considered a subspecies until genetic analysis supported its recognition as a separate species in the crested newt species complex. [2]
It is similar to the northern crested newt (Triturus cristatus) except larger and more robust. In 2013, the Balkan-Anatolian crested newt (Triturus ivanbureschi) was separated from the southern crested newt, [2] and in 2016, the Anatolian crested newt (Triturus anatolicus) was separated from T. ivanbureschi, henceforth just the Balkan crested ...
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]).