Metadata

Proteus parkelj

Sket and Arntzen 1994

ORDERFAMILY
UrodelaProteidae

Synonyms

Proteus anguinus parkelj  Sket and Arntzen 1994

Proteus parkelj, the black Olm, was originally considered as a subspecies of Proteus anguinus. It has now been conclusively shown that it is one of nine independant lineages within the genbus Proteus (Recknagel et al. 2023)

Country

Dinaric Karst

Conservation Status

Key References

In order to save time and resources all bibliographic details for Proteus species are provided under the species account for Proteus anguinus. These references are entirely relevant to all nine known species but nothing is gained by repeating them all nine times

None.