Pachytriton

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: Pachytriton
Species (10): P. airobranchiatus – P. archospotus – P. brevipes – P. changi – P. feii – P. granulosus – P. inexpectatus – P. moi – P. wuguanfui – P. xanthospilos

Name

• Pachytriton Boulenger, 1878: 72

Type species: Triton brevipes Sauvage, 1877, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Pingia Chang, 1935: 425

Type species: Pachytriton granulosus Chang, 1933, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

• Boulenger, G.A. 1878. Description de deux genres nouveaux de la famille des salamandrides. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 3: 71–72.

Additional references

• Shen, Y.-H., Shen, D.-W. & Mo, X.-Y. 2008. A new species of salamander (Pachytriton archospotus) from Hunan Prov. China (Amphibia, Salamandridae). Acta Zoologica Sinica 56: 645–652. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Nishikawa, K. et al. 2011. Unmasking Pachytriton labiatus (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae), with description of a new species of Pachytriton from Guangxi, China. Zoological science 28(6): 453–461. DOI: 10.2108/zsj.28.453
• Wu, Y., Wang, Y. & Hanken, J. 2012. New species of Pachytriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from the Nanling Mountain Range, southeastern China. Zootaxa 3388: 1–16. Preview Reference page. 
• Nishikawa, K., Matsui, M. & Jiang, J.-P. 2012. A new species of Pachytriton from China (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae). Current Herpetology 31(1): 21–27. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.31.21Reference page. 
• Yunke Wu, Yuezhao Wang & James Hanken 2012. Comparative Osteology of the Genus Pachytriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) From Southeastern China. Asian Herpetological Research 3(2): 83–102. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1245.2012.00083
• Yuan, Z-Y., Zhang, B-L. & Che, J. 2016. A new species of the genus Pachytriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from Hunan and Guangxi, southeastern China. Zootaxa 4085(2): 219–232. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.2.3.Reference page. 
• Li, C., Yuan, Z.-Y., Li, H.-B. & Wu, Y.-K. 2018. The tenth member of stout newt (Amphibia: Salamandridae: Pachytriton): Description of a new species from Guangdong, southern China. Zootaxa 4399(2): 207–219. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4399.2.5. Reference page. 

Links

• Amphibian Species of the World 5.2 Pachytriton access date 9 August 2008

Vernacular names

English: Paddletail Newts