Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Tylototriton taliangensis Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 106. Holotype: FMNH 49388, by original designation. Type locality: "Pusakang, Fulinhsien, Sikang [now Sichuan], 8700 feet altitude", China.

Tylototriton (Tylototriton) taliangensis — Zhao and Hu, 1984, Stud. Chinese Tailed Amph.: 9. Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 33.

Pleurodeles (Tylototriton) taliangensis — Risch, 1985, J. Bengal Nat. Hist. Soc., N.S.,, 4: 141. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 11.

Tylototriton (Tylototriton) taliangensis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 68.

English Names

Pusakang Crocodile Newt (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 36).

Taliang Knobby Newt (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 42).

Distribution

Southwestern Sichuan, China, 1300-2700 m elevation.

Comment

See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 78; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 42; and Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 229-231. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 95, provided a brief account and illustration. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 33-34. In the Tylototriton verrucosus group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 42 (although they only addressed Chinese species). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 277-280, provided an account and range map. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 147, provided a brief account, figure, and map. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 642. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 80, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat.

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