Pachyhynobius shangchengensis Fei, Qu, and Wu, 1983

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Hynobiidae > Subfamily: Hynobiinae > Genus: Pachyhynobius > Species: Pachyhynobius shangchengensis

Pachyhynobius shangchengensis Fei, Qu, and Wu, 1983, Amph. Res., Kunming, 1: 1. Holotype: XNC 00227, by original designation. Type locality: "Shangcheng, Henan, 780 m", China.

Xenobius melanonychus Zhang and Hu, 1985, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 4 (1): 36. Holotype: CIB 840010, by original designation. Type locality: "Baimazhai Tree Farm, Jinzhai County, Anhui [Province], altitude 950 m.", China. Provisional synonymy by Zhao, Hu, Jiang, and Yang, 1988, Studies on Chinese Salamanders: 63; Zhao, 1990, in Zhao (ed.), From Water onto Land: 220.

Sinobius melanonychusDubois, 1987, Alytes, 6: 10.

Hynobius yunanicus Chen, Qu, and Niu, 2001, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 26: 383, 387. Holotype: HENNU 99082403, by original designation. (Holotype figured by Fei and Ye, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 31.) Type locality: "brook in mountain, Shangcheng County, Henan Province", China. Synonymy by Xiong, Qin, Zeng, Zhao, and Qing, 2007, J. Herpetol., 41: 664–671, and Nishikawa, Jiang, Matsui, Mo, Chen, Kim, Tominaga, and Yoshikawa, 2010, Zootaxa, 2426: 65.

English Names

Shangcheng Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28).

Shangcheng Stout Salamander (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 30).

Distribution

High-elevation areas in the Dabie Mountains (Dabieshan) area of southeastern Henan, southeastern Hubei, and western Anhui provinces, China, 380–1100 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 49–50, provided an account, photographs, and map. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 55–56 , provided a brief account, photo, and map. See account, photograph, and map by Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 199–202. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 123–124, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. See comments on Hynobius yunanicus by Zhao, Wang, Wang, Liu, and Lu, 2015, J. Henan Normal Univ. (Nat. Sci.), 46: 705–711. Pan, Wang, Orozco-terWengel, Hu, Wu, Qian, Sun, Shi, Yan, Wu, and Zhang, 2019, BMC Evol. Biol., 2019 (19:1): 1–15, reported on the genetic distinctiveness of allopatric sky-island populations in the Dabie Mountains region of China. Pan, Sun, Lai, Orozco-terWengel, Yan, Wu, Wang, Zhu, Wu, and Zhang, 2019, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 137: 138–145, reported on mitogenome evolution across the range and suggested on the basis of this evidence that the nominal species is composed of at least five independent lineages, of which Xenobius melanonychus Zhang and Hu, 1985, is presumably available for one of these species (DRF). Xiong, Zhang, Liu, Pan, and Gou, 2019, PeerJ, 7 (e: 6408): 1–13, reported on sexual dimorphism. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 48–51, provided a detailed account, covering systematics, life history, and distribution (including a polygon map). 

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