Hynobius stejnegeri Dunn, 1923
Hynobius stejnegeri Dunn, 1923, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 12: 28. Holotype: USNM 23901, by original designation. Type locality: "Kumamoto, Higo Province, Kyushu [Island]", Japan.
Hynobius naevius stejnegeri — Mori, 1928, Chosen Nat. Hist. Soc. J., 6: 2.
Seudosalamandra stejnegeri — Tago, 1929, Zool. Mag., Tokyo, 41: 431. Incorrect subsequent spelling of the generic name
Pseudosalamandra stejnegeri — Tago, 1931, Imori to Sanshio-uo: 189.
Hynobius stejnegeri — Sato, 1937, Bull. Biogeogr. Soc. Japan, 7: 40.
Hynobius (Hynobius) stejnegeri — Nakamura and Ueno, 1963, Japan. Rept. Amph. Color: 12.
English Names
Stejneger's Oriental Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28).
Amber-colored Salamander (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 21; Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 81).
Tortoiseshell Salamander (Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 28).
Distribution
Vicinity of Mount Aso, in Kumamoto, Miyazaki, and Kagoshima Prefectures, Kyushu Island, Japan, at elevations around 1000 m.
Comment
In the Hynobius naevius group. See accounts by Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 81-82, and Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 53. Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 28-29, provided an account, map, and photograph. Nishikawa, Matsui, and Tanabe, 2005, Herpetologica, 61: 54-62, reported on biochemical biogeography in Kyushu, Japan. Nishikawa, Matsui, Tanabe, and Sato, 2007, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 24: 752-766, considered this species to be phylogenetically imbedded within Hynobius boulengeri. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 551.
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