| Greek smooth newt |
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| Female (background) and male during breeding season |
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| Scientific classification |
| Domain: |
Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Chordata |
| Class: |
Amphibia |
| Order: |
Urodela |
| Family: |
Salamandridae |
| Genus: |
Lissotriton |
| Species: |
L. graecus |
| Binomial name |
Lissotriton graecus
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| Range (hatching indicates unclear contact zones with L. vulgaris and L. schmidtleri) |
| Synonyms |
15 synonyms
- Triton vulgaris graeca Wolterstorff, 1906
- Triton vulgaris intermedia Kolombatovic, 1907
- Triton vulgaris graeca forma tomasinii Wolterstorff, 1908
- Triton vulgaris graeca forma corcyrensis Wolterstorff, 1908
- Triton meridionalis var. graeca Schreiber, 1912
- Triton vulgaris graeca Wolterstorff, 1912
- Triton meridionalis var. graeca forma tomasinii Schreiber, 1912
- Triton vulgaris forma schreiberi Wolterstorff, 1914
- Triton vulgaris forma schreiberi Wolterstorff, 1925
- Triton (Palaeotriton) vulgaris graecus Bolkay, 1927
- Triturus vulgaris graecus Mertens and Müller, 1928
- Triturus vulgaris tomasinii Mertens and Müller, 1928
- Triturus vulgaris schreiberi Mertens and Müller, 1940
- Triturus meridionalis graeca Bodenheimer, 1944
- Lissotriton (Lissotriton) (vulgaris) graecus Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009
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The Greek smooth newt or Greek newt (Lissotriton graecus) is a newt species found in the southern Balkans, from southern Croatia (Dalmatia) over Montenegro, Albania and North Macedonia to Greece and south-westernmost Bulgaria.: 234 . An introduced population exists in Austria, close to Vienna.