Laos warty newt

Laos warty newt
Conservation status
	; Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
	CITES Appendix II (CITES)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Urodela
Family:	Salamandridae
Subfamily:	Pleurodelinae
Genus:	Laotriton; Dubois [fr] and Raffaëlli, 2009
Species:	L. laoensis
Binomial name
	Laotriton laoensis; (Stuart [fr] and Papenfuss, 2002)
Synonyms
	Paramesotriton laoensis Stuart & Papenfuss, 2002

The Laos warty newt (Laotriton laoensis) is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae. It is found only in the Saysomboun Special Zone and Phou Kout District in Xiangkhouang Province, Laos. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and rivers. In 2014, it is classed as Endangered.

Sometimes this newt is classified as Paramesotriton laoensis.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Since 1999, the population of this newt in the wild has been decimated by wildlife trading networks.^[7]

References

^ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2014). "Laotriton laoensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014 e.T59461A47152908. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T59461A47152908.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
^ Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Laotriton laoensis". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
^ Amphibiaweb - Laotriton
^ Dubois, Alain; Jean Raffaëlli (2009). "A new ergotaxonomy of the family Salamandridae Goldfuss, 1820 (Amphibia, Urodela)" (PDF). Alytes. 26: 1–85.
^ Stuart, B. L.; Papenfuss, T. J. (2002). "A new salamander of the genus Paramesotriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from Laos". Journal of Herpetology. 36 (2): 145–148. doi:10.1670/0022-1511(2002)036[0145:ANSOTG]2.0.CO;2.
^ Hegarty, Stephanie (2012-03-20). "Should the location of newly discovered species be hidden?". BBC.

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Taxon identifiers
Laotriton laoensis	Wikidata: Q22712558 Wikispecies: Laotriton laoensis AmphibiaWeb: 5980 ASW: Laotriton-laoensis CoL: 3S8HP GBIF: 9508469 iNaturalist: 135109 ITIS: 1099629 IUCN: 59461 NCBI: 385659 Open Tree of Life: 1031743 Species+: 10017
Paramesotriton laoensis	Wikidata: Q1945811 Wikispecies: Paramesotriton laoensis BOLD: 101430 CoL: 4D376 EoL: 330899 GBIF: 2431850 IRMNG: 10459188 ITIS: 668386 Observation.org: 204242 Open Tree of Life: 1031743

Laos warty newt
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
CITES Appendix II (CITES)^[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Urodela
Family:	Salamandridae
Subfamily:	Pleurodelinae
Genus:	Laotriton Dubois [fr] and Raffaëlli, 2009
Species:	L. laoensis
Binomial name
*Laotriton laoensis* (Stuart [fr] and Papenfuss, 2002)
Synonyms
Paramesotriton laoensis Stuart & Papenfuss, 2002^[3]