Onychodactylus Tschudi, 1838
Onychodactylus Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 57, 92. Type species: Onychodactylus schlegeli Tschudi, 1838 (= Salamandra japonicus Houttuyn, 1782), by monotypy.
Dactylonyx Bonaparte, 1839, Iconograph. Fauna Ital., 2 (Fasc. 26): unnumbered. Manuscript name credited to Bibron and provided as a synonym of Onychodactylus Tschudi.
Onychopus Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril, 1854, Erp. Gen., 9: 113. Substitute name for Onychodactylus Tschudi, 1838.
Geomolge Boulenger, 1886, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1886: 416. Type species: Geomolge fischeri Boulenger, 1886, by monotypy. Synonymy by Dunn, 1918, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 62: 454.
English Names
Clawed Salamanders (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28).
Distribution
From southern Far East Russia and nearby China to Wonsan in Korea and the mountains of Honshu and Shikoku Is., Japan.
Comment
Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, as part of a larger study confirmed the position of Onychodactylus as the sister taxon of remaining Hynobiidae. Poyarkov, Che, Min, Kuro-o, Yan, Li, Iizuka, and Vieites, 2012, Zootaxa, 3465:1-106, revised the genus, redelimited the species, provided a molecular phylogeny, provided the species groups, and discussed the relevant literature, most of which referred populations to species which are restricted by these authors to much more restricted ranges.
Contained taxa
- Onychodactylus fischeri (Boulenger, 1886)
- Onychodactylus japonicus (Houttuyn, 1782)
- Onychodactylus koreanus Min, Poyarkov, and Vieites, 2012
- Onychodactylus nipponoborealis Kuro-o, Poyarkov, and Vieites, 2012
- Onychodactylus zhangyapingi Che, Poyarkov, and Yan, 2012
- Onychodactylus zhaoermii Che, Poyarkov, and Yan, 2012
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