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Hynobius bakan Matsui, Okawa, and Nishikawa, 2019
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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