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Review of Records of Mioproteus (Caudata: Proteidae) from Southeastern Europe

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Abstract

The present paper provides a review of new and previously known records of Mioproteus (Caudata: Proteidae) from 16 localities in Southeastern Europe: Northern Carpathians, Northern Black Sea region, Azov Sea region, and Northern Caucasus. Records of Mioproteus from five localities are reported for the first time. Mioproteus caucasicus is revealed from six localities, M. wezei—from two localities. This review allows the characteristics of M. caucasicus and M. wezei, as well as the systematic position of previously known records to be clarified. The presence/absence of ridges connecting the neural spine and forking processes of the neural arch should be considered as only reliable diagnostic feature of M. caucasicus and M. wezei.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful to A. Tesakov, P. Frolov, A. Simakova, P. Nikolskaya, and A. Yakimova (GIN RAS), V. Titov (SSC RAS), S. Kurshakov (IBSS RAS), M. Sinitsa (UrFU), I. Danilov (ZIN RAS) for assistance with fieldwork and the possibility to work with the collected material; A. Averianov (ZIN RAS) for a positive review; R. Rakitov (PIN RAS) for help in taking SEM images.

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This work was supported by Russian Science Foundation, no. 18-74-10081 https://rscf.ru/project/18-74-10081/.

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Syromyatnikova, E.V. Review of Records of Mioproteus (Caudata: Proteidae) from Southeastern Europe. Paleontol. J. 56, 1428–1436 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030122110193

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