Amphibia

Battisti, Corrado, Cento, Michele, Fraticelli, Fulvio, Hueting, Steven & Muratore, Sergio, 2021, Vertebrates in the “ Palude di Torre Flavia ” Special Protection Area (Lazio, central Italy): an updated checklist, Natural History Sciences 8 (1), pp. 3-28 : 7

Amphibia

We were able to confirm data for only two species of low conservation concern ( Tab. 2). The only two species of Caudata Salamandridae – Triturus carnifex (Laurenti, 1768) and Lissotriton vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1758) – reported as locally occurring in previous checklists (Pitzalis & Bologna, 2006; Pitzalis, 2007), have never been found in successive years: therefore, we excluded them from the checklist. For the same reason, among Anura Bufonidae , we excluded Bufotes viridis (Laurenti, 1768) : for this species further investigation is anyway required. It is likely that the richness and abundance of amphibians is limited by the presence of brackish water and fish, as well as by the direct or indirect impact of alien species (Amori & Battisti, 2008; e.g., freshwater turtles and the non-native crayfish Procambarus clarkii Girard, 1852 ; see Ficetola et al., 2011). Many individuals of Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758) are run over by cars along the roads along the bor- der of the protected area: to mitigate this threat, some defragmentation interventions have been locally implemented (Scoccianti, 2006).