Name
Until around the turn of the millennium, the smooth newt was named Triturus vulgaris rather than Lissotriton vulgaris, and will be found under that name in most books and many websites.. The old taxon Triturus was found to be a wastebasket taxon, and the smooth newt was transferred to Lissotriton together with the other small-bodied newts.
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