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Eastern crested newt

Taxon: Salamandridae
Author: Giorgi Iankoshvili
Comment: Chili-Tba, surroundings of Tbilisi, female
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Scientific Name ID: 45636
Name According To: www.faunaeur.org
Taxon Rank: Family
Scientific Name Authorship: Goldfuss, 1820
Vernacular Name: True Salamanders
Georgian Name: სალამანდრისებრნი
GBD Remarks:

Georgia has 4 out of 64 (over 6%) of this wide-spread mostly Holoarctic family, including one out of two species of genus Mertensiella and three out of 13 described species (23%) of western Eurasian genus Triturus.


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