Batrachuperus yenyuanensis Liu, 1950
Batrachuperus yenyuanensis Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 99. Holotype: FMNH 49370, by original designation. Type locality: "Peilinshan, Yenyuanhsien, Sikang [now Sichuan], China, 14,500 feet altitude".
English Names
Yenhuanhsien Mountain Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28).
Yenyuan Stream Salamander (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 38).
Distribution
Southwestern Sichuan (Yanyuan, Xichang, Mianning, and Puxiong counties), China; possibly extending into adjacent northern Yunnan, 2900-4400 m elevation.
Comment
Discussed by Fei, Ye, and Tian, 1983, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 8: 209-219. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 62; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 38; Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 116-119; and Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 60. In the Batrachuperus tibetanus group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 36, although they only addressed Chinese species. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 93, provided a brief account and illustration. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 30-31. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 239-242. Fu and Zeng, 2008, Mol. Ecol., 17: 1469-1488, noted a closely-related unnamed species in western Sichuan, China. See illustration, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 549. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 70, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens.
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