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Pachytriton changi Nishikawa, Matsui, and Jiang, 2012

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Pachytriton

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Pachytriton changi Nishikawa, Matsui, and Jiang, 2012, Curr. Herpetol., 31: 24. Holotype: KUHE 39832, by original designation. Type locality: "China" (pet trade).

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Only know from the imprecise locality "China".

Comment

The species is diagnosed but the provenance of the specimen is unknown. The original description was published on 24 May 2012 and appears to be the same species as Pachytriton xanthospilos, published on 26 June 2012.

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