Ranodon sibiricus Kessler, 1866
Ranodon sibiricus Kessler, 1866, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, 39: 130. Syntypes: Including ZMM A-34 (one of two specimens) which was designated lectotype by Dunayev and Orlova, 1994, Russ. J. Herpetol., 1: 60. See discussion of types by Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 19. Type locality: "Umgegend von Semipalatinsk" (= neighborhood of Semipalatinsk), Russia; in error, by being outside of known distribution accoding to Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 118, and Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 19. Type locality discussed by Dunayev and Orlova, 1994, Russ. J. Herpetol., 1: 60, who corrected it to "environs of Kuldzha (China)"; this correction rejected by Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 20.
Triton (Ranodon) sibiricus — Günther, 1867, Zool. Rec., 3: 130.
Ranodon Kessleri Ballion, 1868, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, 41: 140. Holotype: Not stated; see comments by Bauer, Good, and Günther, 1993, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 69: 301. NHMW 22908 considered holotype by Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 11, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 15. Type locality: "Umgegend von Kapal (45° 8′ nördl. Br. 96° 47′ östt. L.)", Kazakhstan. Synonymy by Strauch, 1870, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, Ser. 7, 16 (4): 66; Günther, 1871, Zool. Rec., 7: 80; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 36.
Ranidens sibiricus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 36.
Ranodon kozhevnikovi Nikolskii, 1918, Fauna Rossii, Zemnovodnye: 251. Holotype: ZMM, by original designation; ZMM A-713, according to Dunayev and Orlova, 1994, Russ. J. Herpetol., 1: 61. Type locality: "Tashkent", Uzbekistan (considered unlikely by Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 103, and Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 22). Synonymy by Bobrinskii, 1929, Trudy Nauchno Issledovetel'skogo Institua Zoologii, 3: 19-20; Terentjev and Chernov, 1936, Brief Guide Amph. Rept. USSR: XXX; Thorn, 1968, Salamand. Eur. Asie Afr. Nord: 92. Specimen and its provenance discussed by Dunayev and Orlova, 1994, Russ. J. Herpetol., 1: 61.
Ranodon sibericus — Gee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 18. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
English Names
Siberian Salamander (Steward, 1969, Tailed Amph. Eur.: 39; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 21; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28).
Semirechensk Salamander (Kuzmin, Kubykin, Thiesmeier, and Greven, 1998, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 3: 1; Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 116; Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 18; Halliday and Adler, 2002, New Encyclop. Rept. Amph.: 56).
Central Asian Salamander (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 34).
Distribution
Small mountain creeks with rapids streams and falls, at altitude of 15000-2500 m, in coniferous forests of the high mountains (Jungarian Ala Tau) of northwestern Xinjiang, China, and southeastern Kazakhstan, 2100-3200 m elevation.
Comment
See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 53; Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 116-124; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 34; Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 126-131; Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 17-101, and Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 56-57. Distribution discussed in detail by Kuzmin, Kubykin, Thiesmeier, and Greven, 1998, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 3: 1-20. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 213-218, provided an account for 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.: 62-63, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat.
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