Liua Zhao and Hu, 1983
Liua Zhao and Hu, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (2): 30. Type species: Hynobius wushanensis Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1960 (= Hynobius shihi Liu, 1950), by original designation.
Liuia —Zhao In Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 565. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Liua — Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 116. Treatment as a subgenus of Ranodon.
English Names
Sichuan Salamanders (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28).
Distribution
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Ranodon by Zhang, Chen, Zhou, Liu, Wang, Papenfuss, Wake, and Qu, 2006, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103: 7360-7365, on the basis of being phylogenetically distant from Ranodon, where it had been placed by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 53; Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 13; Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 35. See Zhao, 1994, Sichuan J. Zool., 13: 161-166, for a revised diagnosis of Liua. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 53, considered Liua a synonym of Ranodon as did Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 116 (as a subgenus of Ranodon), and Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 87, although retained by Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 103. Liua considered distinct by Xu, 2001, Sichuan J. Zool., 20: 177-180; and Xu, 2002, Acta Scient. Nat. Univ. Sunyatseni, 41: 79-81. Larson, Weisrock, and Kozak, 2003, in Sever (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylogeny Urodela: 43, Li, Wu, and Wang, 2004, Acta Zool. Sinica, 50: 464-469, suggested on the basis of molecular evidence that Ranodon flavomaculatus, Ranodon shihi, and Ranodon tsinpaensis (the former Liua and Pseudohynobius) may not be closely related closely to Ranodon sibiricus.
Contained taxa
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