Cynops chenggongensis Kou and Xing, 1983
Cynops chenggongensis Kou and Xing, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (4): 51. Holotype: YU A824008, by original designation; given as YU A824037 by Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 324. Type locality: "Chenggong County, Yunnan Province, alt. 1940 m.", China. Given as "Shuitang", Chenggong Ounty, Yunnan, China, by XXX.
Hypselotriton (Hypselotriton) chenggongensis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 45, 65.
English Names
Chenggong Newt (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35).
Chenggong Fire-bellied Newt (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 52).
Distribution
Known only from the type locality (Shiutang, Yunnan, China).
Comment
See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 97; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 52; and Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 319. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 324-328, provided an account and range map. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 127, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 95, provided a brief account (as Cynops chenggongensis) including photographs of specimens.
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