| Greek smooth newt
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| Female (background) and male during breeding season
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| Scientific classification
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Chordata
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| Class:
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Amphibia
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| Order:
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Urodela
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| Family:
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Salamandridae
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| Genus:
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Lissotriton
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| Species:
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L. graecus
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| Binomial name
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Lissotriton graecus
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| Range (hatching indicates unclear contact zones with L. vulgaris and L. schmidtleri)
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| Synonyms
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15 synonyms
- Triton vulgaris graeca Wolterstorff, 1906
- Triton vulgaris intermedia Kolombatovic, 1907
- Triton vulgaris graeca forma tomasinii Wolterstorff, 1908
- Triton vulgaris graeca forma corcyrensis Wolterstorff, 1908
- Triton meridionalis var. graeca Schreiber, 1912
- Triton vulgaris graeca Wolterstorff, 1912
- Triton meridionalis var. graeca forma tomasinii Schreiber, 1912
- Triton vulgaris forma schreiberi Wolterstorff, 1914
- Triton vulgaris forma schreiberi Wolterstorff, 1925
- Triton (Palaeotriton) vulgaris graecus Bolkay, 1927
- Triturus vulgaris graecus Mertens and Müller, 1928
- Triturus vulgaris tomasinii Mertens and Müller, 1928
- Triturus vulgaris schreiberi Mertens and Müller, 1940
- Triturus meridionalis graeca Bodenheimer, 1944
- Lissotriton (Lissotriton) (vulgaris) graecus Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009
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The Greek smooth newt or Greek newt (Lissotriton graecus) is a newt species found in the southern Balkans, from southern Croatia (Dalmatia) over Montenegro, Albania and North Macedonia to Greece and south-westernmost Bulgaria.. An introduced population exists in Austria, close to Vienna.