Short communication, Note
Finding of the Alpine salamander (Salamandra atra Laurenti, 1768; Salamandridae, Caudata) in the Nature Park Žumberak - Samoborsko gorje (NW Croatia)
Nina Jeran
; Požarinje 69, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Patra Đurić
; State Institute for Nature Protection, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Krešimir Žganec
; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This study confirms the presence of Alpine salamander (Salamandra atra) in the Nature Park Žumberak - Samoborsko gorje, where previously only one specimen was recorded in 1989. Species presence and distribution were investigated at ten different localities in stands of montane beech forest, during the vegetation season 2004. In July 2004 five individuals (four males and one female) of Alpine salamander were found in the virgin beech forest at site Kuta (about 900 m a.s.l.), during weather conditions characterized by heavy rain. This is the northernmost finding of the species in Croatia, as well as a confirmed disjunctive part of its areal in the Dinarids. Conservation measures for the species are proposed but for more precise conservation plan further research of species distribution and ecology is needed.
Keywords
Alpine salamander; Salamandra atra; Nature Park Žumberak - Samoborsko gorje; distribution; amphibians
Hrčak ID:
114385
URI
Publication date:
1.6.2011.
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