Tylototriton dabienicus Chen, Wang, and Tao, 2010

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Tylototriton > Species: Tylototriton dabienicus

Tylototriton wenxianensis dabienicus Chen, Wang, and Tao, 2010, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 35: 666. Holotype: HNNU 0908, by original designation. Type locality: "Huangbaishan National Forest Par of Henan Province, China (31° 24′N, 115° 20′E; alt. 698 m)".

Tylototriton dabienicusShen, Jiang, and Mo, 2012, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 3: 26.

Yaotriton dabienicus —  Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 90.

Tylototriton (Yaotriton) dabienicus — Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 187.

English Names

Dabie Knobby Newt (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 90). 

Dabieshan Crocodile Newt (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 289, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

Distribution

Mount Dabien region of Henan, China, 698–767 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

In the Tylototriton asperrimus group and the sister taxon of Tylototriton wenxianensis according to Shen, Jiang, and Mo, 2012, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 3: 26 (now all Yaotriton).  Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 90, provided an account, photographs, and a map. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 187, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 360–361, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 298–300, provided an account (as Yaotriton dabienicus), photographs, and range map. Bernardes, Le, Nguyen, Pham, Pham, Nguyen, Rödder, Bonkowski, and Ziegler, 2020, ZooKeys, 935: 121–164, provided a range map. In the Tylototriton (Yaotritonwenxianensis species group of Poyarkov, Nguyen, and Arkhipov, 2021, Taprobanica, 10: 4–22, who discussed phylogenetics. In the Tylototriton asperrimus group of Lyu, Wang, Zeng, Zhou, Qi, Wan, Li, and Wang, 2021, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 71: 697–710, who discussed phylogenetics. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 293, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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