Lissotriton montandoni (Boulenger, 1880)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Lissotriton > Species: Lissotriton montandoni

Triton montandoni Boulenger, 1880, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 5: 38. Expanded description in Boulenger, 1880, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 5: 157. Syntypes: IRSNB 1.011 (4 specimens), according to Bauer, Good, and Günther, 1993, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 69: 301, and Lang, 1990, Doc. Trav., Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg., 59: 13; NHMW 22901.1–2, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 11, Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 15, and Gemel, Gassner, and Schweiger, 2019, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, Ser. B, 121: 44; and MNHNP 6252 (2 specimens; according to Brame and Gorham, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 102). Type locality: "Moldavie"; given by Boulenger, 1880, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 5: 158, as "vallée de Barnarie" = Valley of Barnarie near Brosteni, Romania (as restricted by Mertens and Müller, 1940, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 451: 12).

Molge montandonii — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 17.

Triton montandoni — Wolterstorff, 1912, Bl. Aquar. Terrarienkd., Stuttgart, 23: 190.

Diemictylus montandoni — Fowler and Dunn, 1917, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 69: 28.

Triturus montandoni — Dunn, 1918, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 62: 451.

Triturus (Palaeotriton) montandoni — Bolkay, 1927, Glasn. Zemaljskog Muz. Bosni Hercegov., 39: 63; Bolkay, 1928, Z. Anat. Entwicklungesch., 86: 259-319; Thorn, 1968, Salamand. Eur. Asie Afr. Nord: 191.

Triton hoffmanni Szeliga-Mierzeyewksi and Ulasiewicz, 1931, Trav. Soc. Sci. Wilno, Class. Sci. Math. Nat., 6: 19. Type(s): Not designated. Type locality: "Molodeczno" Province, Wilno, Lithuania. Name provided for Triturus montandoni X Triturus vulgaris, hybrid.

Triturus montandoni — Wolterstorff and Herre, 1935, Arch. Naturgesch., Leipzig, N. F., 4: 224.

Triturus (Palaeotriton) montandoni — MacGregor, Sessions, and Arntzen, 1990, J. Evol. Biol., 3: 329.

Lissotriton montandoni — García-París, Montori, and Herrero, 2004, Fauna Iberica, 24: 50, by implication; ; Pabijan, Zieliński, Dudek, Stuglik, and Babik, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 116: 1; Wielstra, Canestrelli, Cvijanovíc, Denoël, Fijarczyk, Jablonski, Liana, Naumov, Olgun, Pabijan, Pezzarossa, Popgeorgiev, Salvi, Si, Sillero, Sotiropoulos, Zieliński, and Babik, 2018, Amphibia-Reptilia, 39: 252. 

Lophinus montandoni — Litvinchuk, Zuiderwijk, Borkin, and Rosanov, 2005, Amphibia-Reptilia, 26: 317, by implication.

Lissotriton (Lissotriton) (vulgaris) montandoni — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 66.

Common Names

Montandon's Newt (Arnold and Burton, 1978, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Brit. Eur.: 47; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 34; Stumpel-Rienks, 1992, Ergänzungsband Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., Trivialnamen der Herpetofauna Eur.: 68; Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 45).

Carpathian Newt (Hellmich, 1962, Rept. Amph. Eur.: 48; Steward, 1969, Tailed Amph. Eur.: 40; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 34; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 36).

Distribution

Carpathian, Iezer, Tatra, and Oder mountains, of Romania, southeastern Ukraine, eastern and northern Slovakia, western Czech Republic, and extreme southern Poland, 120 to 2000 m elevation; introduced into Bavaria, Germany.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine

Introduced: Germany

Comment

See accounts by Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 160-164; Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 270-272; and Kuzmin, 2013, Amph. Former Soviet Union, Ed. 2: 87–89. See also discussion of relevant literature and distribution by Cogǎlniceanu, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 84-85. Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 45-46, provided a brief account, figure, and map, as did Obst in Engelmann, Fritzsche, Günther, and Obst, 1993, Lurche Kriechtiere Eur.: 95-96. Nöllert and Nöllert, 1992, Die Amph. Eur.: 215-218, Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 109, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. See account by Zavadil, Pialek, and Dandova, 2003, in Grossenbacher and Thiesmeier (eds.), Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., 4(IIA): 657-706. Babik, Branicki, Crnobrnja-Isailovic, Cogǎlniceanu, Sas-Kovács, Olgun, Poyarkov, García-París, and Arntzen, 2005, Mol. Ecol., 14: 2475-2491, discussed the mtDNA relationships of populations of this species with various members of the Lissotriton vulgaris complex. Covaciu-Marcov, Cicort-Lucaciu, and Dimancea, 2009, North-West. J. Zool., Romania, 5: 429-433, reported on the population in the Iezer Mountains of Romania and discussed the range. Smirnov, 2010, Curr. Stud. Herpetol., Saratov, 10: 14–25, reported on morphometric variation in the Ukrainian Carpathians. Gherghel, Strgariu, Ambrosă, and Zamfirescu, 2012, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 7: 49-55, documented the hybrid zone in Romania with Lissotriton vulgaris. Cogǎlniceanu, Székely, Samoilă, Iosif, Tudor, Plăiaşu, Stănescu, and Rozylowicz, 2013, ZooKeys, 296: 35-57, provided a dot map for Romania. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 123–124, provided a brief account, photo, and map. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 229–232, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species.  Wielstra, Canestrelli, Cvijanovíc, Denoël, Fijarczyk, Jablonski, Liana, Naumov, Olgun, Pabijan, Pezzarossa, Popgeorgiev, Salvi, Si, Sillero, Sotiropoulos, Zieliński, and Babik, 2018, Amphibia-Reptilia, 39: 1–8, reviewed the taxonomic literature and provided a range map. Speybroeck, Beukema, Bok, and Van Der Voort, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Brit. Eur.: 92–93, provided a brief account and distribution map. Wielstra, Canestrelli, Cvijanovíc, Denoël, Fijarczyk, Jablonski, Liana, Naumov, Olgun, Pabijan, Pezzarossa, Popgeorgiev, Salvi, Si, Sillero, Sotiropoulos, Zieliński, and Babik, 2018, Amphibia-Reptilia, 39: 252–259, reviewed the taxonomic literature of the Lissotriton vulgaris and provided a range map. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 127, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology, a range map, as well as a photograph. Niedzicka, Głowacki, Zieliński, and Babik, 2020, Amphibia-Reptilia, 41: 489–500, reported on a hybrid zone with Lissotriton vulgaris in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 352–353, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).      

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