Paramesotriton
| Paramesotriton | |
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| Paramesotriton hongkongensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Urodela |
| Family: | Salamandridae |
| Subfamily: | Pleurodelinae |
| Genus: | Paramesotriton Chang, 1935 |
| Type species | |
| Mesotriton deloustali Bourret, 1934
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| Species | |
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14 species (see text) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Paramesotriton, also known as warty newts[1] or Asian warty newts,[2][3] is a genus of salamanders in the family Salamandridae.[1] The genus is found in southwestern and southern China and in northern Vietnam.[1][3] Most of the species are endemic to China, and the majority of them have been described recently, since 2008.[3] The genus includes both pond and stream dwellers.[4]
Taxonomy and systematics
The sister taxon of Paramesotriton is Laotriton. The genus may be divided into two species groups (subgenera), Paramesotriton and Allomesotriton.[1][3]
Description
Paramesotriton have a dark brown dorsum[2] with a prominent vertebral ridge, often also a pair of lateral ridges. The tail is high and laterally compressed.[4] Skin texture varies from relatively smooth to very rough.[2] Paramesotriton hongkongensis has toxic skin and ova, as has been shown for many other salamanders.[5]
Species
Paramesotriton contains the following 14 species:[1][6]
- Paramesotriton aurantius Yuan, Wu, Zhou, and Che, 2016
- Paramesotriton caudopunctatus (Liu and Hu, 1973) — spot-tailed warty newt
- Paramesotriton chinensis (Gray, 1859) — Chinese warty newt
- Paramesotriton deloustali (Bourret, 1934) — Tam Dao salamander, Vietnamese salamander
- Paramesotriton fuzhongensis Wen, 1989 — Wanggao warty newt
- Paramesotriton guangxiensis (Huang, Tang, and Tang, 1983) — Guangxi warty newt
- Paramesotriton hongkongensis (Myers and Leviton, 1962) — Hong Kong warty newt, Hong Kong newt
- Paramesotriton labiatus (Unterstein, 1930)
- Paramesotriton longliensis Li, Tian, Gu, and Xiong, 2008
- Paramesotriton maolanensis Gu, Chen, Tian, Li, and Ran, 2012
- Paramesotriton qixilingensis Yan, Zhao, Jiang, Hou, He, Murphy, and Che, 2014
- Paramesotriton wulingensis Wang, Tian, and Gu, 2013
- Paramesotriton yunwuensis Wu, Jiang, and Hanken, 2010
- Paramesotriton zhijinensis Li, Tian, and Gu, 2008 — Zhijin warty newt
References
- ^ a b c d e f Frost, Darrel R. (2018). "Paramesotriton Chang, 1935". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
- ^ a b c Yuan, Zhiyong; Zhao, Haipeng; Jiang, Ke; Hou, Mian; He, Lizhong; Murphy, Robert W. & Che, Jing (2014). "Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Paramesotriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) with the description of a new species from Qixiling Nature Reserve, Jiangxi, southeastern China and a key to the species". Asian Herpetological Research. 5 (2): 67–79. doi:10.3724/sp.j.1245.2014.00067.
- ^ a b c d Yuan, Zhiyong; Wu, Yunke; Zhou, Jiajun & Che, Jing (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. PMID 27988548.
- ^ a b Chan, Lauren M.; Zamudio, Kelly R. & Wake, David B. (2001). "Relationships of the salamandrid genera Paramesotriton, Pachytriton, and Cynops based on mitochondrial DNA sequences". Copeia. 2001 (4): 997–1009. doi:10.1643/0045-8511(2001)001[0997:rotsgp]2.0.co;2.
- ^ Brodie, Edmund D.; Hensel, John L. & Johnson, Judith A. (1974). "Toxicity of the urodele amphibians Taricha, Notophthalmus, Cynops and Paramesotriton (Salamandridae)". Copeia. 1974 (2): 506–511. doi:10.2307/1442542. JSTOR 1442542.
- ^ "Salamandridae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
External links
Data related to Paramesotriton at Wikispecies
Media related to Paramesotriton at Wikimedia Commons
