Liua tsinpaensis (Liu and Hu, 1966)
Ranodon tsinpaensis Liu and Hu In Hu, Zhao, and Liu, 1966, Acta Zool. Sinica, 18: 65, 88. Holotype: CIB 623293, by original designation. Type locality: "Hou-tseng-tze, Chouchih Hsien, Shensi [= Shaanxi], alt. 1,830 m", China. This regarded as erroneous by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 109, who corrected the type locality to "Diao-yü-tai, Tsinling Mountains (= Qinling), Shaanxi Prov., China".
Pseudohynobius tsinpaensis — Fei and Ye, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (4): 33. Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 46; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 32; Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 33.
Ranodon (Pseudohynobius) tsinpaensis — Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 116.
Ranodon tsinpaensis — Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 102.
Liua tsinpaensis — Zhang, Chen, Zhou, Liu, Wang, Papenfuss, Wake, and Qu, 2006, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103: 7361.
English Names
Shaanxi Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28).
Tsinpa Salamander (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 32).
Qinpa Salamander (Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 102).
Distribution
Henan, southern Shaanxi, and northeastern Sichuan Provinces, China, 1600-1860 m elevation.
Comment
See discussion by Fei and Ye, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (4): 31-37. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 46; and (in the sense of including Ranodon flavomaculatus as a synonym) and Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 132. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 86, provided a brief account. See account by Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 102-106, who regarded the allopatric Ranodon tsinpaensis and Ranodon flavomaculatus to be distinct species, but requiring additional study; Li, Wu, and Wang, 2004, Acta Zool. Sinica, 50: 464-469, suggested on the basis of mtDNA studies that these are distinct species. See comment under Liua shihi. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 148-150, provided an account (as Pseudohynobius tsinpaensis). See also brief account by Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 62-63. Chen, Yang, and Qu, 2007, Chinese J. Zool., 42: 148-150, reported the species from Neixiang County, Henan Province, China. 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: 553. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 56-57, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 56-57, provided a brief account (as Pseudohynobius tsinpaensis) including photographs of specimens and habitat.
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