Lyciasalamandra antalyana (Basoglu and Baran, 1976)
Mertensiella luschani antalyana Basoglu and Baran, 1976, Sci. Rep. Fac. Sci. Ege Univ., Izmir, 235: 3-15. Holotype: SZE 70-1976.1, by original designation. Type locality: "Kedetler", which lies about 17 km SW of Antalya, in southwestern Anatolia, Turkey. Type locality discussed and corrected to "along the Antyalya-Altinyaka road, about 7 km north-east of Kedetler, at the edge of the village Hurma", Turkey, by Veith, Baran, Godmann, Kiefer, Öz, and Tunç, 2001, Zool. Middle East, 22: 70.
Lyciasalamandra antalyana — Veith and Steinfartz, 2004, Salamandra, 40: 76.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Known from isolated populations: in the vicinity of the type locality near Kedetler (about 17 km southwest of Antalya); north of Antalya in the mountains north to Thermessos; and around the village of Yaga Köyü, all in southwestern Turkey, 100-800 m elevation.
Comment
Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 164, provided a brief account, figure, and map, who noted a hybrid zone with Lyciasalamandra billae. 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: 602.
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