Paramesotriton

Taxonavigation

Paramesotriton hongkongensis

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 Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Urodela Subordo: Salamandroidea

Familia: Salamandridae
Subfamilia: Pleurodelinae
Genus: Paramesotriton
Species (9): P. aurantius – P. caudopunctatus – P. chinensis – P. deloustali – P. fuzhongensis – P. guanxiensis – P. hongkongensis – P. labiatus – P. longliensis – P. maolanensis – P. qixilingensis – P. wulingensis – P. yunwuensis – P. zhijinensis

Name

Paramesotriton Chang, 1935: 95 [replacement name]

• Type species: Mesotriton deloustali Bourret, 1934, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Mesotriton Bourret, 1934: 93 [preoccupied by Mesotriton Bolkay, 1927]
• Trituroides Chang, 1935
• Allomesotriton Freytag, 1983
• Allomesotriton — Pang, Jiang & Hu, 1992

References

Additional references

• Nishikawa, K., Goldschmidt, T., Hiruta, S. & Shimano, S. 2020. Taxonomic amendments of Southeast Asian newt species of the genera Pachytriton, Paramesotriton and Laotriton (Amphibia, Urodela, Salamandridae) parasitized by water mites of the subgenus Lurchibates (Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae, Hygrobates). Zootaxa 4768(2): 297–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4768.2.11 Reference page. 
• Pang, J., Jiang, Y. & Hu, Q. 1992. Systematic study on Chinese newt, genus Paramesotriton (Caudata: Salamandridae). Pp. 89-100 in: Jiang, Y. (ed.), Collected papers on herpetology. Sichuan Science and Technology Publishing House, Chengdu. [in Chinese]
• Gu, X.-M., Wang, H., Chen, R.-R., Tian, Y.-Z. & Li, S. 2012. The phylogenetic relationships of Paramesotriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) based on partial mitochondrial DNA gene sequences. Zootaxa 3150(1): 59–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3150.1.3 Reference page. 
• Yuan, Z-Y., Wu, Y-K., Zhou, J-J. & Che, J. 2016. A new species of the genus Paramesotriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from Fujian, southeastern China. Zootaxa 4205(6): 549–563. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.6.3. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Warty Newts
日本語: コブイモリ属

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