Extension Of The Known Range Of Triturus Dobrogicus: Electrophoretic And Morphological Evidence For Presence In The Czech Republic

Abstract

Three populations of the Triturus cristatus superspecies were studied using morphological and electrophoretic techniques. Two bivariate statistics — the ratio between the length of forelimbs and interlimb distances and that between head width and body length — and eleven allozyme loci revealed close similarity between a sample taken in Moravia (Czech Republic) and a sample of T. dobrogicus collected in Vienna (Austria). Accordingly, the Moravian population should be classified as T. dobrogicus. Therewith, the northeastern limit of the known distribution of Triturus dobrogicus is extended into the Czech Republic. © 1994, Brill. All rights reserved.