Table 1.

Pairwise % of genetic differences between Pelobates taxa (from the data of Dufresnes et al. 2019b). The estimates below diagonal correspond to mitochondrial DNA (cyt-b + 16S, 1.2 kb); the estimates above diagonal correspond to nuclear DNA (63.5 kb of RAD tags).

	P. cultripes	P. varaldii	P. fuscus	P. vespertinus	P. s. syriacus	P. s. boettgeri	P. b. balcanicus	P. b. chloeae
P. cultripes	–	0.40	0.66	0.75	0.72	0.70	0.74	0.73
P. varaldii	6.0	–	0.83	0.92	0.89	0.88	0.92	0.90
P. fuscus	10.1	10.0	–	0.13	0.63	0.62	0.65	0.64
P. vespertinus	9.7	9.6	2.5	–	0.71	0.70	0.74	0.73
P. s. syriacus	9.1	8.6	9.1	8.9	–	0.01	0.32	0.30
P. s. boettgeri	9.2	8.9	9.2	9.0	1.7	–	0.31	0.29
P. b. balcanicus	9.2	8.6	8.5	8.5	7.2	7.0	–	0.02
P. b. chloeae	9.2	8.2	8.5	8.6	7.7	7.7	2.8	–