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SALAMANDRAD^. 



URODELA, 



SALAMANDRA DJE. 



PALMATED SMOOTH-NEWT. 



Lissotriton palmipes. 



Specific Character. — Hind feet, in the male, perfectly palmate ; tail truncate, 

 terminating in a short slender filament ; back flattened, with a raised line on 

 each side, extending from above the eyes to the base of the tail ; dorsal crest 

 with the margin even. 



Salamandre Suisse, Razoumowski, Hist. Nat. du Jorat, p. 111. 



„ palmipede, Latueille, Hist. Nat. des Salam. de France, t. vi. f. 7. 



p. 55. Sonnini, Rept. II. p. 248. 

 Salamandra palmipes, Daud. Hist. Nat. des Rept. VIII. t. xcviii. f. 2, p. 253. 

 Triton palmipes, Deby, in Zoologist, p. 2233. 



As the error which I committed in the former edition of 

 this work — in considering a remarkably developed form of 

 L. punctatus as the L. palmipes of continental authors, 



