Echinotriton andersoni (Boulenger, 1892)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Echinotriton > Species: Echinotriton andersoni

Tylototriton Andersoni Boulenger, 1892, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 10: 304. Holotype: BMNH 1946.9.5.89 (formerly 1892.9.3.30), according to museum records and Brame and Gorham, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 112. Type locality: "Okinawa, or Great Loo Choo Island" (= Okinawa), Ryukyu Is., Japan.

Echinotriton andersoniNussbaum and Brodie, 1982, Herpetologica, 38: 321; Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 44.

Tylototriton (Echinotriton) andersoniZhao and Hu, 1984, Stud. Chinese Tailed Amph.: 16.

Pleurodeles (Tylototrion) andersoniRisch, 1985, J. Bengal Nat. Hist. Soc., N.S.,, 4: 142.

Pleurodeles (Echinotriton) andersoniDubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 11.

Echinotriton (Echinotriton) andersoni — Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 273. 

English Names

Anderson's Newt (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35).

Anderson's Crocodile Newt (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 601).

Ryukyu Spiny Newt (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 44).

Japanese Warty Newt (Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 44).

Anderson's Salamander (Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 199).

Anderson's Spiny Crocodile Newt (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 273).

Distribution

Okinawa island group, Ryukyu Islands, Japan; old records from Mount Kuanyinshan, northern Taiwan are now considered misidentifications.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Japan

Endemic: Japan

Comment

Reviewed by Sato, 1943, Monogr. Tailed Batr. Japan: 349–355. See also comments by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 111. See brief account, figure, and map by Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 44. Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 44–46, provided an account (as Tylototriton andersoni), map, and photograph. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 284–288, provided an account and range map for China.See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 601. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 82–83, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Honda, Matsui, Tominaga, Ota, and Tanaka, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 65: 642–653, reported on strong inter-island genetic differentiation and molecular phylogeography. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 97, provided an account, photographs, and a map. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 189, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 199–202, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species.  Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 311–313, provided a brief account and implied that the record for Taiwan may be in error or the population extinct. Igawa, Sugawara, Honda, Tominaga, Oumi, Katsuren, Ota, Matsui, and Sumida, 2020, Conserv. Genetics, 21: 13–26, discussed intra- and inter-island genetic diversity. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 273–274, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Records from the Amami island group are now are transferred to Echinotriton raffaellii. Ozaki, Tominaga, Matsui, Hara, and Nishikawa, 2023, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 42: 9–16, reported on geographic variation in skull morphometrics. 

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