According to Wake the correct name of the ribbed newt is:
Pleurodeles waltl
According to Wake, P. waltllii is incorrect.
See:
Wake, D.B. (1976) On the correct scientific names of urodeles.
Differentiation, 6:195.
Cheers,
...Steve Scadding
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On 14 Jun 1995, Susan Duhon, IU Axolotl Colony wrote:
>>> On 14 Jun 1995, Francisco J. Saez wrote:
>> > Dear Urodeles netters,
> > Somebody knows what is correct name of the spanish salamander?
> > Pleurodeles waltl or Pleurodeles waltlii? And the more important question:
> > Why?
> > Somebody can help me?
> > Thank you very much in advance
> >
> > *******************************************************************************
> > Francisco J. Saez Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
> > Universidad del Pais Vasco ___ ___
>>> I would like to know the answer to this too, so perhaps the response
> could be put on the net.
>> Susan Duhon
>> p.s. My best efforts to find the answer came up with P. Waltl as being
> probably the preferred name, but I didn't have an authoritative source.
>> ______________________________________________________________
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