Echinotriton andersoni (Boulenger, 1892)
Tylototriton Andersoni Boulenger, 1892, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 10: 304. Holotype: BMNH 1947.9.5.89 (formerly 1892.7.14.50), according to XXX; BMNH 1892.9.3.30, according to Brame, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 112. Type locality: "Okinawa, or Great Loo Choo Island" (= Okinawa), Ryukyu Is., Japan.
Echinotriton andersoni — Nussbaum and Brodie, 1982, Herpetologica, 38: 321. Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 44.
Tylototriton (Echinotriton) andersoni — Zhao and Hu, 1984, Stud. Chinese Tailed Amph.: 16.
Pleurodeles (Tylototrion) andersoni — Risch, 1985, J. Bengal Nat. Hist. Soc., N.S.,, 4: 142.
Pleurodeles (Echinotriton) andersoni — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 11.
English Names
Anderson's Newt (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35).
Anderson's Crocodile Newt (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 601).
Ryukyu Spiny Newt (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 44).
Japanese Warty Newt (Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 44).
Distribution
Okinawa and Anami, Ryukyu Islands, Japan; old records from Mount Kuanyinshan, northern Taiwan, China.
Comment
Reviewed by Sato, 1943, Monogr. Tailed Batr. Japan: 349-355. See also comments by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 111. See brief account, figure, and map by Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 44. Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 231-234. Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 44-46, provided an account (as Tylototriton andersoni), map, and photograph. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 284-288, provided an account and range map for China. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 148, provided a brief account, figure, and map. 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: 601. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 82-83, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Honda, Matsui, Tominaga, Ota, and Tanaka, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 65: 642-653, reported on strong inter-island genetic differentiation and molecular phylogeography.
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