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Batrachuperus taibaiensis Song, Zeng, Wu, Liu, and Fu, 2001
Batrachuperus taibaiensis Song, Zeng, Wu, Liu, and Fu, 2001, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 9: 6. Holotype: NIEA 860122, by original designation. Type locality: "upper stream of Heihe River, near Hua Er Ping Village, Zhouzhi County, Shaanxi Province, China (33.85° N, 107.82° E)".
Common Names
Taibai Stream Salamander (Song, Zeng, Wu, Liu, and Fu, 2001, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 9: 6f).
太白山溪鲵 (Taibai Mountain Brook Salamander): (Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: Appendix 1, 2).
Distribution
Southern Shaanxi, southeastern Gansu, and northeastern Sichuan, China.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of
Endemic: China, People's Republic of
Comment
See comment under Batrachuperus tibetanus, which several authors consider to be a senior synonym, for additional access to literature. The status of Batrachuperus taibaiensis is controversial; treated, without comment, as a synonym by Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph., but subsequently (Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 249) treated as a formal synonym, however, without discussion. : 48–56, recognized Batrachuperus taibaiensis as distinct from Batrachuperus tibetanus on the basis of COI mtDNA and noted that the cytb mtDNA results of Fu, Wang, Zeng, Liu, and Zheng, 2001, Copeia, 2001: 1100–1107, which suggested that Batrachuperus taibaiensis and Batrachuperus tibetanus were conspecific, was due to incomplete lineage sorting. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 60, provided a detailed account, covering systematics, life history, and distribution (including a polygon map).
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