Hynobius tagoi Dunn, 1923

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

Hynobius tagoi Dunn, 1923, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 12: 29. Holotype: CAS 26563, by original designation. Type locality: "Tsushima, North Island", in Korean straits, Japan. 

Hynobius leechii tagoi — Mori, 1928, Chosen Nat. Hist. Soc. J., 6: 2.

Hynobius tagoi — Niwa, Nishikawa, Matsui, Kanamori, and Kuro-o, 2023, Zootaxa, 5339: 201. 

English Names

None noted. 

Distribution

Tsushima Islands (excluding the central to southern parts of Shimojima, former Izuhara-machi), in Nagasaki Prefecture, western Japan, at elevations of 25 m to 125 m. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Japan

Endemic: Japan

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Hynobius tsuensis on the basis if nuDNA and morphology by Niwa, Nishikawa, Matsui, Kanamori, and Kuro-o, 2023, Zootaxa, 5339: 201–235, where it had been placed by Mori, 1928, Chosen Nat. Hist. Soc. J., 6: 2; Oyama, 1930, Annot. Zool. Japon., 12: 443; Oyama, 1930, Copeia, 1930: 155–156; Tago, 1934, Zool. Mag., Tokyo, 46: 214–224.

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