Paramesotriton chinensis (Gray, 1859)
Cynops chinensis Gray, 1859, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859: 229. Syntypes: Not stated but BMNH 1947.9.6.14-15 (formerly 59.11.18.8-9) by museum records; BMNH 1947.9.6.15 designated lectotype by Myers and Leviton, 1962, Occas. Pap. Div. Syst. Biol. Stanford Univ., 10: 1. Type locality:"River N. E. Coast of China, inland from Ningpo", China.
Triton chinensis — Strauch, 1870, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, Ser. 7, 16 (4): 51.
Triton sinesis — Sauvage, 1876, L’Institut, Paris, N.S.,, 4: 274. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Molge sinensis — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 20.
Diemictylus sinensis — Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 20.
Triturus sinensis — Dunn, 1918, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 62: 448.
Triton (Cynops) chinensis — Wolterstorff, 1925, Abh. Ber. Mus. Nat. Heimatkd. Magdeburg, 4: 292. Based on Paramesotriton hongkongensis according to XXX.
Cynops chinensis — Wolterstorff and Herre, 1935, Arch. Naturgesch., Leipzig, N. F., 4: 224.
Trituroides chinensis — Chang, 1935, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 60: 425. Chang, 1936, Contr. Etude Morphol. Biol. Syst. Amph. Urodeles Chine: 106.
Triturus sinensis boringi Herre, 1939, Abh. Ber. Mus. Nat. Heimatkd. Magdeburg, 7: 84-85. Holotype: MM; destroyed in W.W.II. Type locality: "Linhai" (= Taichow), Zhejiang Province, China.
Triturus chinensis — Pope and Boring, 1940, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 15: 23.
Paramesotriton chinensis — Freytag, 1962, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 38: 451-459.
Trituroides chinensis — Sichuan Biological Research Institute, 1977, Syst. Key Chinese Amph.: 14.
Paramesotriton chinensis chinensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 61-62. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 90.
Triturus sinensis boringae — Michels and Bauer, 2004, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 52: 84. Unjustified emendation according to Dubois, 2007, Zootaxa, 1550: 67.
Paramesotriton (Paramesotriton) chinensis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 49, 65.
English Names
Chinese Warty Newt (Paramesotriton chinensis: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 48).
Chinese Newt (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 32).
Distribution
Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan, Fujian, and Guangdong, China.
Comment
See accounts by Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 15; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 88; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 48; and Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 324-325. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 22-23, provided an account (as Trituroides chinensis) for Zhejiang. In the Paramesotriton chinensis group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 45 (although they only addressed Chinese species). Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 130, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Wu, Rovito, Papenfuss, and Hanken, 2009, Zootaxa, 2060: 59-68, noted that the Guangxi population is now referred to Paramesotriton ermizhaoi. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 86-87, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat.
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