Ommatotriton or banded newts is a genus of salamanders in the family Salamandridae. The genus occurs in Western Asia and Caucasus. The species in this genus were formerly placed in the genus Triturus.
Taxonomy The genus contains three species: Ommatotriton nesterovi (Litvinchuk, Zuiderwijk, Borkin, and Rosanov, 2005) — Anatolian banded newt Ommatotriton ophryticus (Berthold, 1846) — northern banded newt Ommatotriton vittatus (Gray, 1835) — southern banded newt
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