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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 ...
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 ...
A licence is required for surveying in ponds which contain great crested newts. [11] The site, known as Alton's Field, [12] was notified on 16 August 2000, [8] because "this site supports one of the largest known breeding populations of great crested newt Triturus cristatus in the UK."
English: Courtship of northern crested newt (Triturus cristatus), also known as the great crested newt or warty newt.Filmed in Dover, Kent, United Kingdom. Original description: Saw lots of great crested newts today after a poor days rockpooling at Dover (not quite as clear as Cornwall!) I placed the camera in the water and left it and to my surprise the newts came right up to it to ...
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]
Great crested newt, Triturus cristatus (jolgan-leaghyr-beg) * Smooth newt, Triturus vulgaris ... First identified on Great Britain in 2012 and the Isle of Man in 2017 ...
A male Great Crested Newt, Triturus cristatus. All three locations contain areas of heath and mire, habitats that are, except at Waldridge Fell, rare and fragmented in lowland Durham. At Langley Moor there is an area of woodland which is dominated by downy birch, Betula pubescens, with some sessile oak, Quercus petraea.
Northern crested newt, Triturus cristatus LC; Marbled newt, Triturus marmoratus LC (Spain, Portugal and France) Southern marbled newt, Triturus pygmaeus NT (Spain and Portugal) Italian crested newt, Triturus carnifex LC; Southern crested newt, Triturus karelinii LC; Balkan crested newt, Triturus ivanbureschi (Balkans, Turkey) [2]