''Ommatotriton'' or ''banded

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'' is a genus of

salamander Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults. All t ...

s in the family Salamandridae. The genus occurs in

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and

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. The species in this genus were formerly placed in the genus ''

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''.

Taxonomy

The genus contains three species: * '' Ommatotriton nesterovi'' (Litvinchuk, Zuiderwijk, Borkin, and Rosanov, 2005) * '' Ommatotriton ophryticus'' (Berthold, 1846) — northern banded newt * '' Ommatotriton vittatus'' (Gray, 1835) — southern banded newt

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* Amphibian genera Amphibians of Asia Amphibians of Europe Taxa named by John Edward Gray {{Salamandridae-stub