Batrachuperus Boulenger, 1878
Desmodactylus David, 1873 "1872", J. N. China Branch R. Asiat. Soc., N.S., 7: 226. Type species: Desmodactylus pinchonii David, 1872 "1871", by monotypy. Synonymy by Stejneger, 1925, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 66: 5.
Batrachuperus Boulenger, 1878, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 3: 71. Type species: Salamandrella sinensis Sauvage, 1876 (= Dermodactylus pinchonii David, 1872 "1871"), by monotypy.
Batrachyperus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 37. Unjustified emendation.
English Names
Mountain Salamanders (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 9).
Stream Salamanders (Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 9).
Distribution
Western China and adjacent Myanmar.
Comment
Chinese species discussed by Fei, Ye, and Tian, 1983, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 8: 209-219. Fu, Wang, Zeng, Liu, and Zheng, 2001, Copeia, 2001: 1100-1107, discussed molecular phylogenetics of the Batrachuperus of eastern China. See Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 107-124, for accounts of most species. Larson, Weisrock, and Kozak, 2003, in Sever (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylogeny Urodela: 43, suggested that this taxon is polyphyletic, with Zhang, Chen, Zhou, Liu, Wang, Papenfuss, Wake, and Qu, 2006, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103: 7360-7365, subsequently partitioning Paradactylodon out of Batrachuperus. Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 36-37, provided a key to the species of China. Fu and Zeng, 2008, Mol. Ecol., 17: 1469-1488, reported on the molecular phylogenetics of the species. Chen, Wang, Liu, Xie, and Jiang, 2011, Curr. Zool., Chengdu, 57: 785805, reported on a tree of 11 protein-coding mtDNA genes that place Batrachu.
Contained taxa
- Batrachuperus karlschmidti Liu, 1950
- Batrachuperus londongensis Liu and Tian, 1978
- Batrachuperus pinchonii (David, 1872)
- Batrachuperus taibaiensis Song, Zeng, Wu, Liu, and Fu, 2001
- Batrachuperus tibetanus Schmidt, 1925
- Batrachuperus yenyuanensis Liu, 1950
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