
Crested and Marbled Newts
Triturus
Triturus is a genus of newts comprising the crested and the marbled newts, which are found from Great Britain through most of continental Europe to westernmost Siberia, Anatolia, and the Caspian Sea region. Their English names refer to their appearance: marbled newts have a green–black colour pattern, while the males of crested newts, which are dark brown with a yellow or orange underside, develop a conspicuous jagged seam on their back and tail during their breeding...
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 10 known species

Triturus cristatus
complexTriturus cristatus

Triturus marmoratus
complexTriturus marmoratus

Marbled × Great Crested Newt
hybridTriturus marmoratus × cristatus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 27702.