“…As can also be understood from the manuscript by Baran (1986), who provided a list of the studies on the amphibian and reptile species constituting the Turkish herpetofauna carried out until recent years, either the species were addressed alone and their properties were introduced or different populations of the same species were compared in most of the studies on this subject. In recent years, the studies to determine the amphibian and reptile species inhabiting a specific region have increased in number (Baran, 1980(Baran, , 1981(Baran, , 1983(Baran, , 1984(Baran, , 1990Çevik, 1982;Uğurtaş, 1989;Baran et al, 1992Baran et al, , 1994Baran et al, , 1997Baran et al, , 2001aBaran et al, , 2001bBaran et al, , 2004Tok, 1995Tok, , 1999aTok, , 1999bBudak et al, 1998;Kumlutaş et al, 1998Kumlutaş et al, , 2000Kumlutaş et al, , 2001Kumlutaş et al, , 2004aKumlutaş et al, , 2004cKumlutaş et al, , 2011Uğurtaş et al, 2000Uğurtaş et al, , 2007Özdemir and Baran, 2002;Cihan et al, 2003;Ilgaz and Kumlutaş, 2005;Kete et al, 2005;Hür et al, 2008;Tosunoğlu et al, 2009Tosunoğlu et al, , 2010Afsar and Tok, 2011;Afsar et al, 2012;Özcan and Üzüm, 2014). In this way, detailed information was obtained about the distribution of species besides the clarification of their systematic positions.…”