Hynobius dunni Tago, 1931

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Hynobiidae > Subfamily: Hynobiinae > Genus: Hynobius > Species: Hynobius dunni

Hynobius dunnus Tago, 1929, Zool. Mag., Tokyo, 41: 431. Nomen nudum.

Hynobius dunni Tago, 1931, Imori to Sanshio-uo: 130. Holotype: TIU 703, lost by implication of statements by Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2, that collection destroyed in WWII. Type locality: Shiroyama, Sayeki Cho, [Saegimachi,] Oita Prefecture, Island of Kyushu, Japan.

Hynobius (Hynobius) dunniNakamura and Ueno, 1963, Japan. Rept. Amph. Color: 8; Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77-161.

English Names

Dunn's Oriental Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28).

Distribution

Northeastern Oita Prefecture south to southeastern Oita Prefecture, extreme northeastern Kuramoto Prefecture, and extreme northern Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Japan. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Japan

Endemic: Japan

Comment

In the Hynobius nebulosus group of Thorn, 1968, Salamand. Eur. Asie Afr. Nord: 37. Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 65-69, and Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 48-49, provided brief accounts. 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: 550. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 67, provided a brief account, photo, and map. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 59–60, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Sugawara, Nagano, Sueyoshi, and Hayashi, 2015, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 34: 1–11, discussed low genetic differentiation within the isolated populations on Kyushu, Japan. Igawa, Okamiya, Ogino, and Nagano, 2020, MtDNA, Part B, 5: 2241–2242, reported on the complete mitochondrial genome and the phylogenetic position of the species. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 94–95, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). See Sugawara, Sueyoshi, and Nagano, 2023, Sci. Rep. Yokosuka City Mus., 70: 63–79, for recognition of populations formerly associated with this species as Hynobius miyazakiensis and Hynobius amabensis

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