Hynobius

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Hynobius
Hynobius nebulosus

Hynobius nebulosus

Systematics
without rank: Amphibians (Lissamphibia)
Order : Tail amphibian (caudata)
Superfamily : Cryptobranchoidea
Family : Angular Newts (Hynobiidae)
Subfamily : Hynobiinae
Genre : Hynobius
Scientific name
Hynobius
Tschudi , 1838

Hynobius is a genus of Caudates (caudata) from the family of Asiatic salamander .

features

The skin of these newts is smooth. The extremities each have five toes. Lungs are present. The teeth of the palate are lined up at a V-shaped angle. Rib furrows and bulges in the ear are well developed. The tail is flattened laterally. The larvae are limnophilic , which means that the larval phase is spent in still waters.

Occurrence

The range of the species of this genus includes Japan, Korea, China and the far east of Russia. It may also be found in Central Asia , on the territory of the former USSR between Pamir and Samarqand .

Systematics

Hynobius kimurae , larva

The genus includes 49 species:

As of March 4, 2019

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sergius L. Kuzmin: The amphibians of Russia and neighboring areas. (= Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei. Volume 627). Westarp Sciences, Magdeburg 1995, ISBN 3-89432-457-0 .
  2. ↑ a b Darrel R. Frost: Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.5 (January 31, 2011). Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/ American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Masafumi Matsui, H. Okawa, Kanto Nishikawa, G. Aoki, K. Eto, N. Yoshikawa, S. Tanabe, Y. Misawa & Atsushi Tominaga: Systematics of the widely distributed Japanese Clouded Salamander, Hynobius nebulosus (Amphibia: Caudata: Hynobiidae), and its closest relatives. Current Herpetology, 38, pp. 32-90, Kyoto 2019
  4. ↑ a b c Kanto Nishikawa & Masafumi Matsui: Three new species of the salamander genus Hynobius (Amphibia, Urodela, Hynobiidae) from Kyushu, Japan. Zootaxa, 3852, pp. 203-226, 2014
  5. ↑ H. Okamiya, H. Sugawara, M. Nagano, and NA Poyarkov, Jr .: An integrative taxonomic analysis reveals a new species of lotic Hynobius salamander from Japan. PeerJ, 5084, pp. 1-40, 2018
  6. ↑ Masafumi Matsui, Kanto Nishikawa & Atsushi Tominaga: Taxonomic relationships of Hynobius stejnegeri and H. yatsui, with description of the Amber-Colored Salamander from Kyushu, Japan (Amphibia: Caudata). Zoological Science, 34, pp. 538-545, Tokyo 2017
  7. ↑ Masafumi Matsui, Y. Misawa, Kanto Nishikawa & T. Shimada: A new species of lentic breeding salamander (Amphibia, Caudata) from central Japan. Current Herpetology, 36, pp. 116-126, Kyoto 2017
  8. ↑ a b Atsushi Tominaga, Masafumi Matsui & Kanto Nishikawa: Two new species of lotic breeding salamanders (Amphibia, Caudata, Hynobiidae) from western Japan. Zootaxa, 4550, 4, pp. 525-544, 2019
  9. ↑ H. Sugawara, T. Watabe, T. Yoshikawa & M. Nagano: Morphological and molecular analyzes of Hynobius dunni reveal a new species from Shikoku, Japan. Herpetologica, 74, pp. 159-168, 2018
  10. ↑ M.-S. Min, H.-J. Baek, J.-Y. Song, MH Chang, and NA Poyarkov, Jr. 2016. A new species of salamander of the genus Hynobius (Amphibia, Caudata, Hynobiidae) from South Korea. Zootaxa, 4169, pp. 475-503, 2016

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