World Species : Ichthyosaura alpestris (Alpine Newt)

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Ichthyosaura alpestris (Alpine Newt)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The alpine newt (Ichthyosaura alpestris) is a newt of the salamander order Caudata (or Urodela) in the class of amphibians.It was formerly known as Triturus alpestris and Mesotriton alpestris.

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Infraspecies

Ichthyosaura alpestris veluchiensis

Attributes

Adult Length ^[1]	3.445 inches (8.75 cm)
Litter Size ^[1]	132
Maximum Longevity ^[2]	15 years

Adult Weight ^[1]	3.9 grams

Female Maturity ^[2]	4 years
Male Maturity ^[2]	3 years

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests	Greece, Turkey, Macedonia	Palearctic	Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Alps conifer and mixed forests	Italy, France, Switzerland, Slovenia	Palearctic	Temperate Coniferous Forests
Appenine deciduous montane forests	Italy	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Atlantic mixed forests	France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Balkan mixed forests	Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Baltic mixed forests	Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Poland	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Cantabrian mixed forests	Spain, Portugal	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Carpathian montane forests	Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine	Palearctic	Temperate Coniferous Forests
Central & Western Europe	Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom	Palearctic	Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands
Central European mixed forests	Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Moldovia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Dinaric Mountains mixed forests	Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Yugoslavia	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Illyrian deciduous forests	Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece	Palearctic	Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests	Italy, France	Palearctic	Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests	France, Spain	Palearctic	Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Northwest Iberian montane forests	Portugal, Spain	Palearctic	Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Pannonian mixed forests	Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Pindus Mountains mixed forests	Albania, Greece	Palearctic	Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Po Basin mixed forests	Italy	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Rodope montane mixed forests	Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests	France, Italy	Palearctic	Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Upper Danube	Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland	Palearctic	Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands
Western European broadleaf forests	Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany	Palearctic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Protected Areas

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Full list (166)

Ecosystems

Commanster Belgium

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Mediterranean Basin	Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey	No

Prey / Diet

Acilius sulcatus	^[3]
Dytiscus marginalis (Predaceous diving beetle)	^[3]
Rana temporaria (European frog)	^[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Predators

Anax imperator (Emperor Dragonfly )	^[3]
Dolomedes fimbriatus (Raft Spider)	^[3]
Dytiscus marginalis (Predaceous diving beetle)	^[3]
Nepa cinerea (Water Scorpion)	^[3]
Notonecta glauca (Water boatman)	^[3]

Consumers

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
♦ ²de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ ³Ecology of Commanster
♦ ⁴Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0