Neurergus

Familia: Salamandridae
Subfamilia: Pleurodelinae
Genus:
Species (4): N. crocatus – N. derjugini – N. kaiseri – N. strauchii

Neurergus Cope, 1862: 343

• Type species: Neurergus crocatus Cope, 1862, by monotypy.

• Rhithrotriton Nesterov, 1916: 1 [synonymized by Nikolskii (1918: 196)]
  • Type species: Rhithrotriton derjugini Nesterov, 1916, by original designation.

• Musergus Dubois & Raffaëlli, 2009: 54 [as subgenus]
  • Type species: Molge strauchii Steindachner, 1888, by original designation.

• Cope, E.D. 1862. Notes upon some Reptiles of the Old World. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 14: 337–344. BHL Reference page. 
• Nesterov, P.V. 1916. [Three new forms of amphibians (Urodela) of Kurdistan]. Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie des Sciences de Petrograd 21: 1–30. (In Russian)
• Dubois, A. & Raffaëlli, J. 2009. A new ergotaxonomy of the family Salamandridae Goldfuss, 1820 (Amphibia, Urodela). Alytes 26: 1–85.

• Steinfartz, S., Hwang, W.W., Tautz, D., Öz, M. & Veith, M. 2002. Molecular phylogeny of the salamandrid genus Neurergus: evidence for an intrageneric switch of reproductive biology. Amphibia-Reptilia 23(4): 419–431. DOI: 10.1163/15685380260462338 Reference page. 
• Hendrix, R., Fleck, J., Schneider, W., Schneider, C., Geller, D., Avcı, A., Olgun, K. & Steinfartz, S. 2014. First comprehensive insights into nuclear and mitochondrial DNA based population structure of Near east mountain brook newts (Salamandridae: genus Neurergus) suggest the resurrection of Neurergus derjugini. Amphibia-Reptilia 35(2): 173–187. DOI: 10.1163/15685381-00002939 Reference page. 
• Rancilhac, L., Goudarzi, F., Gehara, M., Hemami, M.-R., Elmer, K.R., Vences, M. & Steinfartz, S. 2019. Phylogeny and species delimitation of near Eastern Neurergus newts (Salamandridae) based on genome-wide RADseq data analysis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 133: 189–197. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.01.003 Reference page. 
• Khoshnamvand, H., Vaissi, S., Azimi, M. & Ahmadzadeh, F. 2024. Phylogenetic climatic niche evolution and diversification of the Neurergus species (Salamandridae) in the Irano-Anatolian biodiversity hotspot. Ecology and Evolution 14(8): e70105. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.70105 Reference page. 
• Koster, S., Polanen, R., Avcı, A., Bogaerts, S., Bozkurt, E., Goudarzi, F., Hemami, M.-R., Olgun, K., Pasmans, F., Steinfartz, S., Üzüm, N., Visser, M., France, J., Theodoropoulos, A. & Wielstra, B. 2025. Discordance between phylogenomic methods in Near Eastern mountain newts (Neurergus, Salamandridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 211: 108386. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2025.108386 Reference page. 

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