Edough ribbed newt

Pleurodeles poireti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Salamandridae
Genus: Pleurodeles
Species: P. poireti
Binomial name
Pleurodeles poireti
(Gervais, 1836)

The Edough ribbed newt or Poiret's newt (Pleurodeles poireti) is a species of salamander in the Salamandridae family. It is found only in the Edough Massif, in the north east of Algeria.

The natural habitats are of these newts are rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, cisterns and ponds. They are threatened by habitat loss.[1]

The true P. poireti newts are restricted to the Edough Massif area, in Numidia. Formerly, this species was confused with the Algerian ribbed newt Pleurodeles nebulosus, which has a much wider distribution.[2]

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