Karsenia Min, Yang, Bonett, Vieites, Brandon, and Wake, 2005

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Plethodontinae > Genus: Karsenia
1 species

Karsenia Min, Yang, Bonett, Vieites, Brandon, and Wake, 2005, Nature, 435: 88. Type species: Karsenia koreana Min, Yang, Bonett, Vieites, Brandon, and Wake, 2005, by original designation.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

As for the single species.

Comment

Suggested in the original publication to be the sister taxon of Aneides + (Phaeognathus + Desmognathus). Vieites, Min, and Wake, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 19903-19907, suggested that it is the sister taxon of a taxon composed of Hydromantes, Atylodes, and Speleomantes. Vieites, Nieto-Roman, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59623-635, placed this genus, along with their Hydromantes (sensu lato) in Hydromantini.

Contained taxa (1 sp.):

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