Hypselotriton wolterstorffi

Hypselotriton wolterstorffi

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: Hypselotriton
Species: † Hypselotriton wolterstorffi

Name

Hypselotriton wolterstorffi (Boulenger, 1905)

Type locality: "Yunnan fu... about 6000 feet", Yunnan, China.

Syntypes: BM 1946.9.6.30-34.

Synonyms

• Molge wolterstorffi Boulenger, 1905
• Triturus wolterstorffi — Dunn, 1918
• Triton (Cynops) wolterstorffi — Wolterstorff, 1925
• Hypselotriton wolterstorffi — Wolterstorff, 1934
• Cynops wolterstorffi — Chang, 1935
• Hypselotriton wolterstorffi — Wolterstorff & Herre, 1935
• Triturus wolterstorffi — Liu, 1950
• Hypselotriton wolterstorffi — Freytag, 1962
• Cynops (Hypselotriton) wolterstorffi — Scholz, 1995
• Hypselotriton (Hypselotriton) chenggongensis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009

References

• Boulenger, G.A. 1905: Description of a new newt from Yunnan. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1905: 277.
• Scholz, K.P. 1995: Zur Stammesgeschichte der Salamandridae Gray, 1825. Eine kladistische Analyse anhand von Merkmalen aus Morphologie und Balzverhalten. Acta Biologica Benrodis. Düsseldorf, 7: 25–75.
• Dubois, A. & J. Raffaëlli. 2009: A new ergotaxonomy of the family Salamandridae Goldfuss, 1820 (Amphibia, Urodela). Alytes. Paris 26: 1–85.
• AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Hypselotriton wolterstorffi. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.
• 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Hypselotriton wolterstorffi  (Extinct) Downloaded on 7 August 2008.

Vernacular names

English: Yunnan Lake Newt