Pachytriton Boulenger, 1878
Pachytriton Boulenger, 1878, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 3: 72. Type species: Triton brevipes Sauvage, 1877, by monotypy.
Pingia Chang, 1935, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 60: 425. Type species: Pachytriton granulosus Chang, 1933, by monotypy. Synonymy by implication of Nishikawa, Jiang, Matsui, and Mo, 2011, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 28: 453-461.
English Names
Chinese Newts (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35).
Distribution
Southeastern China.
Comment
Chan, Zamudio, and Wake, 2001, Copeia, 2001: 997-1009. suggested that Pachytriton is the sister taxon of Paramesotriton. Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 336-340, provided accounts. Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 45-46, provided a key to the species of China. Weisrock, Papenfuss, Macey, Litvinchuk, Polymeni, Ugurtas, Zhao, Jowkar, and Larson, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 41: 855-857, found Pachytriton to be in a monophyletic group with Cynops and Paramesotriton. Steinfartz, Vicario, Arntzen, and Caccone, 2007, J. Exp. Zool., 308B: 139-142, found Pachytriton to be the sister taxon of Paramesotriton. See comment under Paramesotriton to literature that does not confirm this relationship. Wu, Wang, and Hanken, 2012, Zootaxa, 3388: : 1-16, commented on species taxonomy in the group. Wu, Wang, and Hanken, 2012, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 3: 83-102, reported on the comparative osteology of the species.
Contained taxa
- Pachytriton archospotus Shen, Shen, and Mo, 2008
- Pachytriton brevipes (Sauvage, 1876)
- Pachytriton changi Nishikawa, Matsui, and Jiang, 2012
- Pachytriton feii Nishikawa, Jiang, and Matsui, 2011
- Pachytriton granulosus Chang, 1933
- Pachytriton inexpectatus Nishikawa, Jiang, Matsui, and Mo, 2011
- Pachytriton moi Nishikawa, Jiang, and Matsui, 2011
- Pachytriton xanthospilos Wu, Wang, and Hanken, 2012
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