Tylototriton wenxianensis Fei, Ye, and Yang, 1984
Tylototriton asperrimus wenxianensis Fei, Ye, and Yang, 1984, Acta Zool. Sinica, 30: 89. Holotype: CIB 638164, by original designation. Type locality: "Wenxian [= Wen County], Gansu [Province], alt. 946 m", China.
Tylototriton asperrimus pingwuensis Deng and Yu, 1984, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 3 (2): 75. Holotype: KIZ 74005, by original designation. Type locality: "Duiwoliang, Pingwu, Sichuan, alt. 1400 m", China. Synonymy by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 80, following Zhao, Hu, Jiang, and Yang, 1988, Studies on Chinese Salamanders: 63, who considered it likely synonymous.
Pleurodeles (Tylototrion) asperrimus wenxianensis — Risch, 1985, J. Bengal Nat. Hist. Soc., N.S.,, 4: 142.
Echinotriton asperrimus wenxianensis — Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 112. 1
Tylototriton wenxianensis — Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 80.
Tylototriton (Yaotriton) wenxianensis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 68.
Tylototriton wenxianensis wenxianensis — Chen, Wang, and Tao, 2010, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 35: 666. By implication.
English Names
Wenxian Knobby Salamander (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 42).
Wenxian Knobby Newt (Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 96).
Distribution
Wenxian in southern Gansu and Pingwu and Qinghuan in adjacent northern Sichuan, as well as isolated records in Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, and southwestern Anhui, China, 650-2500 m elevation.
Comment
See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 81, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 42. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 96, provided a brief account and illustration. In the Tylototriton asperrimus 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: 265-268. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 148, provided a brief account, figure, and map. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 607. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 74-75, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat.
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