Tylototriton

Tylototriton verrucosus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Salamandroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Urodela Subordo: Salamandroidea

Familia: Salamandridae
Subfamilia: Pleurodelinae
Genus: Tylototriton
Subgenera (2): T. (Tylototriton) – T. (Yaotriton)

Overview of species (28)

T. anguliceps – T. anhuiensis – T. asperrimus – T. broadoridgus – T. dabienicus – T. hainanensis – T. himalayanus – T. kachinorum – T. kweichowensis – T. liuyangensis – T. lizhenchangi – T. ngarsuensis – T. ngoclinhensis – T. notialis – T. panhai – T. pasmansi – T. podichthys – T. pseudoverrucosus – T. sparreboomi – T. shanjing – T. shanorum – T. taliangensis – T. umphangensis – T. uyenoi – T. verrucosus – T. vietnamensis – T. wenxianensis – T. yangi – T. ziegleri

Name

Tylototriton Anderson, 1871: 423

• Type species: Tylototriton verrucosus Anderson, 1871, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Triturus (Tylototriton) — Boulenger, 1878: 308
• Tylotriton — Boettger, 1885: 165 [incorrect subsequent spelling]
• Yaotriton Dubois & Raffaëlli, 2009: 59 [as a subgenus of Tylototriton]
  • Type species: Tylototriton asperrimus Unterstein, 1830, by original designation and monotypy.
• Qiantriton Fei, Ye & Jiang, 2012: 78, 594 [as a subgenus of Tylototriton]
  • Type species: Tylototriton kweichowensis Fang & Chang, 1932, by original designation.
• Liangshantriton Fei, Ye & Jiang, 2012: 44 [as a subgenus of Tylototriton]
  • Type species: Tylototriton taliangensis Liu, 1950, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Anderson, J. 1871. Description of a new genus of newts from western Yunan [sic]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871: 423–425. BHL
• Dubois, A. & Raffaëlli, J. 2009. A new ergotaxonomy of the family Salamandridae Goldfuss, 1820 (Amphibia, Urodela). Alytes 26: 1–85. PDF; ResearchGate Reference page. 

Additional references

• Boulenger, G.A. 1878. Quelques mots sur les Euproctes. Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France 3: 305–308.
• Stuart, B.L., Phimmachak, S., Sivongxay, N. & Robichaud, W.G. 2010. A new species in the Tylototriton asperrimus group (Caudata: Salamandridae) from central Laos. Zootaxa 2650: 19–32. Preview. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2650.1.2 Reference page. 
• Nishikawa, K., Matsui, M. & Nguyen, T.T. 2013. A New Species of Tylototriton from Northern Vietnam (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae). Current Herpetology 32(1): 34–49. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.32.34 Reference page. 
• Nishikawa, K., Khonsue, W., Pomchote, P. & Matsui, M. 2013. Two new species of Tylototriton from Thailand (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae). Zootaxa 3737(3): 261–279. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.3.5 Reference page. 
• Nishikawa, K., Matsui, M. & Rao, D.-Q. 2014. A new species of Tylototriton (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae) from central Myanmar. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society 60: 9–22. Reference page. 
• Phung, T.M., Pham, C.T., Nguyen, T.Q., Ninh, H.T., Nguyen, H.Q., Bernardes, M., Le, S.T., Ziegler, T. & Nguyen, T.T. 2023. Southbound – the southernmost record of Tylototriton (Amphibia, Caudata, Salamandridae) from the Central Highlands of Vietnam represents a new species. Zookeys 1168ː 193–218. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1168.96091 Reference page. 
• Pomchote, P., Peerachidacho, P., Hernandez, A., Sapewisut, P., Khonsue, W., Thammachoti, P. & Nishikawa, K. 2021. A new species of the genus Tylototriton (Urodela, Salamandridae) from western Thailand. ZooKeys 1072ː 83–105. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1072.75320 Reference page. 
• Yang, D.-d.,Jiang, J.-P., Shen, Y.-H. & Fei, D.-B. 2014. A new species of the genus Tylototriton (Urodela: Salamandridae) from northeastern Hunan Province, China. Asian Herpetological Research 5(1): 1-11. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1245.2014.00001 . Reference page. 
• Phimmachak, S., Aowphol, A. & Stuart, B.L. 2015. Morphological and molecular variation in Tylototriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) in Laos, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4006(2): 285–310. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4006.2.3. Reference page. 
• Khatiwada, J. R., Wang, B., Ghimire, S., Vasudevan, K., Paudel , S. & Jiang, J.-P. 2015. A new species of the genus Tylototriton (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae) from eastern Himalaya. Asian Herpetological Research 6(4): 245–256. DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.140097 Reference page. 
• Le, D.T., Nguyen, T.T. Nishikawa, K., Nguyen, S.L.H., Pham, A.V., Matsui, M., Bernardes, M. & Nguyen, T.Q. 2015. A new species of Tylototriton Anderson, 1871 (Amphibia: Salamandridae) from northern Indochina. Current Herpetology 34: 38–50. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.34.38 Reference page. 
• Qian, L., Sun, X.-N., Li, J.-Q., Guo, W.-B., Pan, T., Kang, X., Wang, H., Jiang, J.-P., Wu, J. & Zhang, B.-W. 2017. A new species of the genus Tylototriton (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae) from the southern Dabie Mountains in Anhui Province. Asian Herpetological Research 8(3): 151–164. DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.170013 Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Wood, Jr., P.L., Quah, E.S.H., Thura, M.K., Espinoza, R.E., Grismer, M.S., Murdoch, M.L. & Lin, A. 2018. A new species of Crocodile Newt Tylototriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from Shan State, Myanmar (Burma). Zootaxa 4500(4): 553–573. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.4.5 Reference page. 
• Zaw, T., Lay, P., Pawangkhanant, P., Gorin, V.A. & Poyarkov, N.A. 2019. A new species of Crocodile Newt, genus Tylototriton (Amphibia, Caudata, Salamandridae) from the mountains of Kachin State, northern Myanmar. Zoological Research 40(3): 151–174. DOI: 10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2019.043 Reference page. 
• Bernardes, M., Le, M.D., Nguyen, T.Q., Pham, C.T., Pham, A.V., Nguyen, T.T., Rödder, D., Bonkowski, M. & Ziegler, T. 2020. Integrative taxonomy reveals three new taxa within the Tylototriton asperrimus complex (Caudata, Salamandridae) from Vietnam. ZooKeys 935: 121–164. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.935.37138 Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Knobby Newts
ไทย: นิวต์จระเข้, กะท่าง, จิ้งจกน้ำ, จั๊กกิ้มน้ำ

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