Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Pelonectes boscai Lataste In Tourneville, 1879, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 4: 72. Syntypes: MNHNP 5840 (4 specimens) (according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 8; Thireau, 1986, Cat. Types Urodeles Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., Rev. Crit.: 20, rejected MNHNP 5840 as having type status), BMNH 1946.9.6.21-22 (according to Brame, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 90), IRSNB 1.003 (according to Lang, 1990, Doc. Trav., Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg., 59: 13), MZUT An300, according to Bauer, Good, and Günther, 1993, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 69: 301. Type locality: "Caracollera (province de Ciudad-Real, Espagne)". Synonymy (with Triton palmatus) by Boettger, 1879, Z. Ges. Naturwiss., Berlin, 52: 516.

Triton palmatus var. boscai — Boettger, 1879, Z. Ges. Naturwiss., Berlin, 52: 516.

Molge boscae — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 18. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Triton boscae — Camerano, 1885, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, Ser. 2, 36: 419. Schreiber, 1912, Herpetol. Eur., Ed. 2: 62.

Triton boscai — Schulze, 1891, Jahresber. Abhandl. Naturwiss. Ver. Magdeburg, 1890: 170. Wolterstorff, 1912, Bl. Aquar. Terrarienkd., Stuttgart, 23: 190; Wolterstorff, 1925, Abh. Ber. Mus. Nat. Heimatkd. Magdeburg, 4: 288.

Triton (Triton) boscae — Wolterstorff, 1901, Feuille Jeunes Nat., Ser. 4, 31: 76.

Triton (Triton) boscai — Wolterstorff, 1902, Triton der Untergattung Euproctus: 43.

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

Triton (Palaeotriton) boscai — Bolkay, 1928, Z. Anat. Entwicklungesch., 86: 259.

Triturus (Palaeotriton) boscai — Thorn, 1968, Salamand. Eur. Asie Afr. Nord: 191. MacGregor, Sessions, and Arntzen, 1990, J. Evol. Biol., 3: 329.

Lissotriton boscai — García-París, Montori, and Herrero, 2004, Fauna Iberica, 24: 233. García-París, Monton, and Alonso-Zarazaga, 2004, in García-París et al. (eds.), Fauna Iberica, 24: 589-602: 593.

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

Lissotriton (Meinus) boscai — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 66.

English Names

Bosca's Newt (Hellmich, 1962, Rept. Amph. Eur.: 47; Steward, 1969, Tailed Amph. Eur.: 39; Arnold and Burton, 1978, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Brit. Eur.: 51; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 33; Stumpel-Rienks, 1992, Ergänzungsband Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., Trivialnamen der Herpetofauna Eur.: 64; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 36; Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 48).

Distribution

Western Iberian Peninsula excluding soutwestern Portugla, and southernmost Spain.

Comment

All literature prior to 2009 addresses the taxon in the sense of including Lissotriton maltzani. See account by Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 272-275. See also discussion of relevant literature and distribution by Caetano, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 74-75. Barbadillo-Escrivá, 1987, Guia INCAFO Anf. Rept. Peninsula Iberica: 114-119, provided an account. Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 48-49, provided a brief account, figure, and map, as did Obst in Engelmann, Fritzsche, Günther, and Obst, 1993, Lurche Kriechtiere Eur.: 90-91. Díaz-Paniagua, 1997, in Pleguezuelos (ed.), Dist. Biogeogr. Anf. Rep. Esp. Portugal: 117-119, provided a brief account, photograph, and detailed map for Iberia. Nöllert and Nöllert, 1992, Die Amph. Eur.: 196-199, provided a brief account and polygon map. Herrero, 1991, Genet. Select. Evol., 23: 263-272, reported two mutually incompatible karyotypes in this nominal species, one from the Sierra de Gredos (central Spain) and the other from the remaining parts of the range, suggesting that more than one species exists under this binominal ( Speybroeck and Crochet, 2007, Podarcis, 8: 9). See account by Caetano, 2003, in Grossenbacher and Thiesmeier (eds.), Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., 4(IIA): 727-750. Martínez-Solano, Teixeira, Buckley, and García-París, 2006, Mol. Ecol., 15: 3375-3388, reported on mitochondrial phylogeography. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 109-110, provided a brief account, phoography, and map.

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