Neurergus derjugini (Nesterov, 1916)
Rhithrotriton derjugini Nesterov, 1916, Annu. Mus. Zool. Acad. Sci. Petrograd, 21: 1. Syntypes: ZISP, according to Brame, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 54, but including animal figured in original publication. Type locality: "montibus Surkeu" (= Surkev Mountains, Kurdistan), Iran. Synonymy by with Neurergus crocatus by Nikolskii, 1918, Fauna Rossii, Zemnovodnye: 197; Wolterstorff, 1926, Zool. Anz., 67: 1-6.
Rhithrotriton derjugini var. microspilotus Nesterov, 1916, Annu. Mus. Zool. Acad. Sci. Petrograd, 21: 2, 5. Type(s): Including animal figured in the original publication; possibly ZISP, but not seen by Nikolskii, 1918, Fauna Rossii, Zemnovodnye: 198. Type locality: "montibus Auromana" (= Avroman-Dagh), Balch, Iraq, and Tawale, Province Kurdistan, Iran.
Triton crocatus forma microspilota — Wolterstorff, 1926, Zool. Anz., 67: 2.
Triton crocatus forma derjugini — Wolterstorff, 1926, Zool. Anz., 67: 1-6.
Triton crocatus microspilotus — Bolkay, 1927, Glasn. Zemaljskog Muz. Bosni Hercegov., 39: 67.
Neurergus derjugini — Terentjev, 1930, Trudy Leningrad. Obshchestvo Estestvoispytatele, 40: 59.
Neurergus crocatus microspilotus — Schmidt, 1939, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 24: 52.
Triturus crocatus derjugini — Bodenheimer, 1944, Istanbul Univ. Fen. Fak. Mec., Seri B, 9: 7.
Triturus crocatus microspilotus — Bodenheimer, 1944, Istanbul Univ. Fen. Fak. Mec., Seri B, 9: 7.
Neurergus microspilotus — Schmidtler and Schmidtler, 1975, Salamandra, 11: 93.
Neurergus (Neurergus) microspilotus — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 66.
Neurergus derjugini derjugini — Schneider and Schneider, 2011, Herpetozoa, 23: 3.
Neurergus derjugini microspilotus — Schneider and Schneider, 2011, Herpetozoa, 23: 3.
English Names
Kurdistan Newt (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 32; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35).
Kordestan Newt (Baloutch and Kami, 1995, Amph. Iran: 98).
Distribution
In addition to the type locality, four other localities: 30 km south of the type locality near Paweh, 8 km east of Paweh, 25 km southeast of Paweh, and near the Iraq-Iran border in Kurdistan, Iran, 1300-1400 m elevation.
Comment
Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 346-347, and Baloutch and Kami, 1995, Amph. Iran: 98-100, provided accounts. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 119, provided a brief account, map, and photograph. Sharifi, Rastegar-Pouyani, Akmali, and Narenji, 2008, Russ. J. Herpetol., 15: 169-172, discussed geographic variation of morphology. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 604. Özdemir, Üzüm, Avci, and Olgun, 2009, Herpetologica, 65: 280-291, suggested that Neurergus kaiseri is the sister taxon of Neurergus microspilotus. Schneider and Schneider, 2011, Herpetozoa, 23: 3-20, discussed the taxonomy of this species, transferred Rhithrotriton derjugini from the synonymy of Neurergus crocatus and recognized two nominal subspecies.
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