Introduction The banded newt, Triturus vittatus (Gray, 1835) complex, is a poorly studied member of the western Palearctic genus Triturus (Litvinchuk et al., 2005). The distribution of T. vittatus complex is fragmented into two parts. In the southern part of its range, the complex is subdivided into two parts: T. v. vittatus (Gray 1835) and T.v. cilicensis (Wolterstroff, 1906) (Schmidler and Schmidler, 1967; Atatür, 1974; Olgun et al., 1997). The western part of its range is attributed to a different subspecies as T. v. ophryticus. The subspecies ranges from the western Caucasus in southern Russia and Georgia, through northwestern Armenia and northern Turkey west to the İstanbul Strait (Olgun et al., 2008). Herpetology Notes, volume 4: 161-165 (2011) (published online on 6 May 2011) Morphology of the Northern Banded Newt, Ommatotriton ophryticus (Berthold, 1846) (Caudata: Salamandridae) in Uludağ (Bursa, Turkey) Kerim ÇİÇEK, Dinçer AYAZ and Yusuf BAYRAKCI Ege University, Faculty of Science, Biology Department, Zoology Section, TR-35100, Bornova-Izmir, Turkey E-mail: kerim.cicek@ege.edu.tr Abstract. The study was carried out to examine the morphology of Ommatotriton ophryticus in Uludağ (Bursa, Turkey) between April and May 2006. A total of 24 individuals (3 juveniles, 12 ♂♂, 9 ♀♀) were evaluated. The mean total body length is 85.3 mm (69.4 – 101.4) for juveniles, 122.4 mm (111.2 – 133.5) for males, and 112.8 mm (107.2 – 120.7) for females. Male-biased sexual size dimorphism was observed between sexes. Keywords. Caudata, Salamandridae, Ommatotriton ophryticus nesterovi, Turkey Figure 1. The distribution of Ommatotriton ophryticus (revised from Başoğlu and Özeti, 1973, Baran and Yılmaz 1986, Tarkhnishvili and Gokhelashvili 1999, Litvinchuk et al. 2005). [Circles, O. ophryticus ophryticus, squares, O. ophryticus nesterovi, filled squares, Kirazlıyayla and Sarıalan.]