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Hynobiinae Cope, 1859
Molgina Bonaparte, 1850, Conspect. Syst. Herpetol. Amph.: 1 p. Type genus: Molge Bonaparte, 1839 (= Hynobius Tschudi, 1838).
Molgidae Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 14. Type genus: Molge Bonaparte, 1839 (= Hynobius Tschudi, 1838).
Ellipsoglossidae Hallowell, 1856, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 8: 11. Type genus: Ellipsoglossa Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril, 1854 (= Hynobius Tschudi, 1838). Synonymy by Cope, 1859, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 11: 125; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 31; by implication of regarding Ellipsoglossa as a junior synonym of Hynobius.
Hynobiidae Cope, 1859, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 11: 125. Type genus: Hynobius Tschudi, 1838.
Molgida — Knauer, 1878, Naturgesch. Lurche: 97.
Geyeriellinae Brame, 1958, List World’s Fossil Caudata: 5. Type genus: Geyeriella Herre, 1950. Unavailable name due to being distributed by mimeograph.
Hynobiinae — Regal, 1966, Evolution, 20: 405; Fei and Ye, 2000, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 8: 64.
Protohynobiinae Fei and Ye, 2000, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 8: 64. Type genus: Protohynobius Fei and Ye, 2000. Synonymy by Peng, Zhang, Xiong, Gu, Zeng, and Zou, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 56: 257.
Hynobiini — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77–161. Explicit tribe.
Hynobiina — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77–161. Explicit subtribe.
Protohynobiina — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77–161. Explicit subtribe.
Salamandrellini Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77–161. Type genus: Salamandrella Dybowski, 1870. Explicit tribe.
Pachyhynobiini Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77–161. Type genus: Pachyhynobius Fei, Qu, and Wu, 1983. Explicit tribe.
Ranodontini Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77–161. Type genus: Ranodon Kessler, 1866. Explicit tribe.
Hynobiinia — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 275. Infratribe.
Hynobiinoa — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 275. Hypotribe.
Satobiinoa Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 276. Type genus: Satobius Adler and Zhao, 1990.
Protohynobiinia — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 276. Infratribe.
Salamandrellina — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 276. Subtribe.
Ranodontini — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 276. Tribe.
Iranodontina Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 276. Type genus: Iranodon Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012. Subtribe.
Ranodontina — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 276. Subtribe.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
From Kamchatka through Siberia to eastern European Russia to Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Iran and eastward to Korea, Japan, and China.
Geographics occurrence
Natural resident: Afghanistan, China, People's Republic of, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Democratic People's Republic (North), Korea, Republic of (South), Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Myanmar, Russia, Taiwan, Tajikistan
Comment
Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77-161, on at least the partial basis of the unpublished dissertation of Nikolai Poyarkov provided a taxonomy of four tribes: Salamandrellini (for Salamandrella), Pachyhynobiini (for Pachyhynobius), Ranodontini (for former Ranodon), and a likely paraphyletic Hynobiini (for former Hynobius, Pseudohynobius, Liua, and Batrachuperus). They additionally resurrected a number of subtribes and new subgenera although the evidentiary basis for these should be carefully evaluated given the propensity of these authors to intentionally recognize non-monophyletic groups on the basis of other people's data (DRF). See Chen, Mao, Liang, Kuro-o, Zeng, and Zhang, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 83: 1–6, for a falsification of Dubois and Raffaelli's (2012) Hynobiini. Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 1–738, provided a phylogenetic analysis and complex nomenclatural treatment of this subfamily.
Contained taxa (87 sp.):
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