A New Species of Pachytriton from China (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae)

Kanto Nishikawa; Masafumi Matsui; Jian-Ping Jiang

doi:10.5358/hsj.31.21

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Kanto Nishikawa,^1,* Masafumi Matsui,¹ Jian-Ping Jiang²

¹1Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida Nihonmatsu-cho, Sakyo
²2Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China

^*Corresponding author. TEL: +81-75-753-6848;Fax:+81-75-753-2891; E-mail address: hynobius@zoo.zool.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Abstract

A new species of the salamandrid genus Pachytriton is described based on two individuals purchased from pet shops in Japan. The original locality of these specimens is known only as “China”, and further details are not known. Morphologically, this species differs from all other congeners in the combination of coloration, body size, snout length, head width, tail length and width, and length of upper jaw tooth series and vomerine tooth series. Genetically, this species is separated from all other congeners by substantial genetic distances in mitochondrial DNA sequences.

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Kanto Nishikawa, Masafumi Matsui, and Jian-Ping Jiang "A New Species of Pachytriton from China (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae)," Current Herpetology 31(1), 21-27, (1 June 2012). https://doi.org/10.5358/hsj.31.21

Accepted: 1 May 2012; Published: 1 June 2012

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