Hynobius bakan Matsui, Okawa, and Nishikawa, 2019

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Hynobiidae > Subfamily: Hynobiinae > Genus: Hynobius > Species: Hynobius bakan

Hynobius bakan Matsui, Okawa, and Nishikawa in Matsui, Okawa, Nishikawa, Aoki, Eto, Yoshikawa, Tanabe, Misawa, and Tominaga, 2019, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 38: 60. Holotype: KUHE OU 0391, an adult male from Warisaka, Kurumaji, Ube-shi, Yamaguchi Prefecture (34°50'36"N, 131°18'12"E, alt. 70 m)". 

English Names

Yamaguchi Salamander (original publication). 

Distribution

Extreme southwestern Honshu, Japan, 15 to 280 m elevation. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Japan

Endemic: Japan

Comment

Prior to its naming, confused with Hynobius nebulosus, according to the original publication. Recently partitioned by Sugawara, Tahara, Nakazono, Matsukoji, and Nagano, 2022, Sci. Rep. Yokosuka City Mus., 69: 1–17, who assigned populations from Kyushu and the Yamaguchi Prefecture of Honshu to the new species Hynobius nihoensis and Hynobius nagatoensis.  Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 94, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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