Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Salamandrinae Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 33. Type genus: Salamandrina Fitzinger, 1826.

Seiranotina Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 29. Type genus: Seiranota Barnes, 1826 (= Salamandrina Fitzinger, 1826). Synonymy with Pleurodelidae by Cope, 1875, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 1: 11. Synonymy with Salamandridae by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 2.

Seiranotidae — Hallowell, 1856, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 8: 10.

Salamandrininae Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 64.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Mountains of Italy from near Genoa to Calabria.

Comment

Weisrock, Papenfuss, Macey, Litvinchuk, Polymeni, Ugurtas, Zhao, Jowkar, and Larson, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 41: 855-857, found Salamandrina to be near-basal, either the sister taxon to Pleurodelinae or Salamandrinae, and they discussed evidentiary ambiguities. Zhang, Papenfuss, Wake, Qu, and Wake, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 49: 586-597, resolved the placement and regarding Salamandrina as the sister taxon of Pleurodelinae + Salamandrinae, although without recognizing these taxa formally. Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 64, recognized it as the subfamily Salamandrininae, the sister taxon of an unnamed taxon composed of Salamandrinae + Pleurodelinae.

Contained taxa

• Salamandrina Fitzinger, 1826 (2 sp.)

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