Hynobiinae Cope, 1859

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Hynobiidae > Subfamily: Hynobiinae
87 species

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.

MolgidaKnauer, 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.

HynobiinaeRegal, 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.

HynobiiniDubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77–161. Explicit tribe.

HynobiinaDubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77–161. Explicit subtribe.

ProtohynobiinaDubois 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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