Tylototriton Anderson, 1871
Tylototriton Anderson, 1871, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1871: 423. Type species: Tylototriton verrucosus Anderson, 1871, by monotypy.
Triturus (Tylototriton) — Boulenger, 1878, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 3: 308.
Tylotriton — Boettger, 1885, Ber. Offenbach. Ver. Naturkd., 24-25: 165. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Yaotriton Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 59. Type species: Tylototriton asperrimus Unterstein, 1830, by original designation. Coined as a subgenus of Tylototriton.
English Names
Crocodile Newts (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 36).
Crocodile Salamanders (Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 11).
Distribution
China; northern Vietnam, northern Thailand, Kachin Hills of northern Myanmar, Sikkim, Darjeeling area in north-central India, and Nepal.
Comment
See comments under Echinotriton. Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 221-231, provided accounts. Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 41-42, provided a key to the species of China. Weisrock, Papenfuss, Macey, Litvinchuk, Polymeni, Ugurtas, Zhao, Jowkar, and Larson, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 41: 855-857, on the basis of DNA sequence data found a monophyletic Tylototriton to be in a monophyletic group with Echinotriton and Pleurodeles. Stuart, Phimmachak, Sivongxay, and Robichaud, 2010, Zootaxa, 2650: 19-32 , as did Yuan, Jiang, Lü, Yang, Nguyen, Nguyen, Jin, and Che, 2011, Zool. Res., Kunming, 32: 577584, provided a molecular analysis of Tylototriton asperrimus group. Shen, Jiang, and Mo, 2012, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 3: 2130, provided a molecular tree of the Tylototriton asperrimus group. Gu, Chen, Wang, Tian, Chen, and Tian, 2012, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 37: 20-28, reported on the molecular phylogenetics of the Tylototriton asperrimus group as Yaotriton.
Contained taxa
- Tylototriton asperrimus Unterstein, 1930
- Tylototriton broadoridgus Shen, Jiang, and Mo, 2012
- Tylototriton dabienicus Chen, Wang, and Tao, 2010
- Tylototriton hainanensis Fei, Ye, and Yang, 1984
- Tylototriton kweichowensis Fang and Chang, 1932
- Tylototriton lizhengchangi Hou, Zhang, Jiang, Li and Lu, 2012
- Tylototriton notialis Stuart, Phimmachak, Sivongxay, and Robichaud, 2010
- Tylototriton pseudoverrucosus Hou, Gu, Zhang, Zeng, and Lu, 2012
- Tylototriton taliangensis Liu, 1950
- Tylototriton verrucosus Anderson, 1871
- Tylototriton vietnamensis Böhme, Schöttler, Nguyen, and Köhler, 2005
- Tylototriton wenxianensis Fei, Ye, and Yang, 1984
- Tylototriton yangi Hou, Zhang, Zhou, Li, and Lu, 2012
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