Nieuwe soort; Triturus macedonicus

[Wouter]

De voormalige ondersoort van de Italiaanse Kamsalamander is tot volle soort verheven door oa onderzoekers uit Leiden. Het artikel kun je vinden op de onderstaande link (3e publicatie, maar er staan nog veel meer interessante tussen)

Het artikel geeft ook interessante informatie over de herkomst van alle cristatus superspecies.

http://science.naturalis.nl/research/people/cv/arntzen

[Kamil]

merci beaucoup!

Though I'm not sure if there is the need for another subspecies beeing lifted up to a species status...

Best Greetings,

Kamil

[Sergé Bogaerts]

You wait and see...all the karelinii are genetically very different as you can see in the paper. A former student of Pim Arntzen is currently working on this...

[Roy van Grunsven]

We'll it is interesting that these two groups differ but if it is a species? (if you believe in species) I couldn't care less.
Ok so some populations differ a bit but they do not co-occur and where they do they have hybrid zones. (isn't that a clue?) I prefer to see it as one variable "species" with local types instead of seperate species.

However it is a good thing they are split because otherwise we wouldn't be allowed to keep them :).