Pleurodeles

Taxobox
name = Ribbed Newts

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = Iberian Ribbed Newt ("Pleurodeles waltl")
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Urodela
familia = Salamandridae
genus = "Pleurodeles"
genus_authority = Michahelles, 1830
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Pleurodeles nebulosus" "Pleurodeles poireti" "Pleurodeles waltl"The Ribbed Newts ("Pleurodeles" genus) is a group of three newt species:

*Algerian Ribbed Newt ("Pleurodeles nebulosus")
*Edough Ribbed Newt ("Pleurodeles poireti")
*Iberian Ribbed Newt ("Pleurodeles waltl")

The Iberian Ribbed Newt is the most common of the species, and the most frequently used as a model organism by scientists. However, in the wild its numbers are declining, and in 2006 it became a near threatened species. The other two species are in fact threatened, with "P. nebulosus" considered vulnerable to extinction and "P. poireti" classified as an endangered species. The numbers of all three species are declining in the wild. Livestock agriculture is an ongoing major cause of habitat loss and degradation, and of water pollution, for all three species.

References

*http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/references.php?g_id=1215
*IUCN Red List 2006