Pyrenean brook salamander
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| Species: | C. asper
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| Calotriton asper Dugès, 1852
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Euproctus asper | |
The Pyrenean Brook Salamander or Pyrenean Newt (Catalan: tritó pirinenc; Basque: uhandre piriniarra; Spanish: tritón pirenaico), Calotriton asper, is a species of salamander in the Salamandridae family. It is found in the Pyrenees of Andorra, France, and Spain. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, inland karsts, and caves. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Further reading
- S. Carranza & F. Amat (2005). "Taxonomy, biogeography and evolution of Euproctus (Amphibia: Salamandridae), with the resurrection of the genus Calotriton and the description of a new endemic species from the Iberian Peninsula" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 145 (4): 555–582. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00197.x.
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