This male Calotriton asper
was shot in Spain in 2001.
A recent article
shows that the genus Euproctus was
polyphyletic. The conclusions of the phylogenetical analysis held in
the course of this study reveal that the Pyrenean brook salamanders
were phylogeneticaly separated from the Mediterranean ones. Therefore,
a new genus name has been resurected. The old Euproctus
asper
should now be called Calotriton asper (Dugès, 1852).
Another species
has been described in this article. It is Calotriton
arnoldi Carranza
& Amat, 2005. It is currently only known from the massif of El
Montseny, in Catalogna.
The
reference of the article is as follow:
Carranza S.
& Amat F. 2005 - Taxonomy, biogeography and evolution of Euproctus
(Amphibia:
Salamandridae), with resurrection of the genus Calotriton and the description
of a new endemic species from the Iberian Peninsula. Zool. Journ. Linn.
Society, 145: 555-582