Cynops cyanurus Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1962
Cynops cyanurus Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1962, Acta Zool. Sinica, 14: 385. Holotype: CIB 591200, by original designation. Type locality: "De-wu, Shui-cheng, altitude 1,790 meters", western Guizhou, China.
Cynops cyanurus yunnanensis Yang In Shi, Wang, and Zhang, 1979, Hereditas, Beijing, 1: 34. Nomen nudum.
Cynops cyanurus cyanurus — Yang, 1983, Zool. Res., Kunming, 4: 124.
Cynops cyanurus yunnanensis Yang, 1983, Zool. Res., Kunming, 4: 124. Holotype: KIZ 75II0530, by original designation. Type locality: Wuliangshan, Jingdong County, Yunnan Province, China, 2600 meters.
Cynops cyanurus chuxiongensis Fei and Ye, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (4): 55. Holotype: CIB 800257, by original designation. Type locality: "Chuxiong County, Yunnan [Province], 2,400 m.", China. Indistinguishable from Cynops cyanurus yunnanensis according to Zhao, Hu, Jiang, and Yang, 1988, Studies on Chinese Salamanders: 63.
Hypselotriton (Hypselotriton) cyanurus — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 45.
Hypselotriton (Hypselotriton) cyanurus cyanurus — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 65.
Hypselotriton (Hypselotriton) cyanurus yunnanensis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 65.
English Names
Cyan Newt (Cynops cyanurus: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35).
Chuxiong Fire-bellied Newt (Cynops cyanurus chuxiongensis: Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 52).
Blue-tailed Fire-bellied Newt (Cynops cyanurus cyanurus: Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 54).
Distribution
Western Guizhou and northeastern Yunnan, southwestern China.
Comment
See accounts by Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 31-32, Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 99, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 52-54. Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 48, compared the subspecies Cynops cyanurus cyanurus and Cynops cyanurus chuxiongensis. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 329-337, provided an account and range map. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 126-127, provided brief accounts by subspecies, figures, and map. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 20, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. Wu, Wang, Jiang, and Hanken, 2010, Zootaxa, 2346: 42-52, commented on range and relationships (as Cynops cyanurus). Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 96-97, provided brief accounts (as Cynops cyanurus chuxiongensis and Cynops cyanurus cyanurus) including photographs of specimens and habitat.
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