Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Trituroides hongkongensis Myers and Leviton, 1962, Occas. Pap. Div. Syst. Biol. Stanford Univ., 10: 1. Holotype: CAS-SU 6378, by original designation. Type locality: "a mountain stream, on the Peak, Hong Kong Island", China.

Paramesotriton hongkongensis — Freytag, 1962, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 38: 451-459. Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 45.

Paramesotriton chinensis hongkongensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 61-62. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 90.

Paramesotriton (Paramesotriton) hongkongensis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 49, 65.

English Names

Hong Kong Warty Newt (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 15; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 48).

Hong Kong Newt (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 33; Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 329).

Distribution

Coastal Guangdong, including Hongkong, ca. 90-940 m elevation.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Paramesotriton chensis by Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 45, where it had been placed by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 90. See account by Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 329-331. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 306-310, provided an account and range map. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 132, provided a brief account, figure, and map. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (for nominal Paramesotriton hongkongensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 642. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 85, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat.

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