Author/Editor		Arntzen, JW; Sket, B
Title		Morphometric analysis of black and white European cave salamanders, Proteus anguinus
Type		članek
Source		J Zool
Vol. and No.		Letnik 241
Publication year		1997
Volume		str. 699-707
Language		eng
Abstract		Morphometric data for the cave salamander, Proteus anguinus, from the Dinaric Karst of south-eastern Europe are analysed with data for the recently described black and non-troglomorphic Proteus anguinus parkelj from south-eastern Slovenia. Proteus a. anguinus and P. a. parkelj are morphologically distinct. Within P. a. anguinus, inland and coastal populations possess distinguishable phenotypes. Mantel permutation tests show that no firm evidence is available that demonstrates the existence of clinical variation. The characters that best describe differences within P. a. anguinus (head, trunk and tail length, the number of costal grooves) also document the differentiation between P. a. anguinus and P. a. parkelj. The claim that P. a. parkelj falls within the (clinal) variation of P. a. anguinus is untenable. Accordingly, its taxonomic status is upheld.
Descriptors		PROTEIDAE BIOMETRY