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Hypselotriton yunnanensis (Yang, 1979)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Hypselotriton > Species: Hypselotriton yunnanensis

Cynops cyanurus yunnanensis Yang in Shi, Wang, and Zhang, 1979, Hereditas, Beijing, 1: 34. Nomen nudum.

Cynops cyanurus yunnanensis Yang, 1983, Zool. Res., Kunming, 4: 124. Holotype: KIZ 75II0530, by original designation. Type locality: Wuliangshan, Jingdong County, Yunnan Province, China, 2600 meters.

Cynops cyanurus chuxiongensis Fei and Ye, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (4): 55. Holotype: CIB 800257, by original designation. Type locality: "Chuxiong County, Yunnan [Province], 2,400 m.", China.

Hypselotriton (Hypselotriton) cyanurus yunnanensis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 65.

Hypselotriton (Hypselotriton) yunnanensis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 119.

Hypselotriton chuxiongensis — Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 429. Provisional combination.

Cynops puerensis Rao, Zeng, Zhu, and Ma in Rao, 2022 "2020", in Zhu and Rao (eds.), Atlas Wildlife SW China: 424. Holotype: KIZ 06238, by original designation (reportedly not available for examination — DRF). Type locality: Caiyanghe Nature Reserve, Simao District, Puer Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China [from the Chinese]. Synonymy by Lyu, Qi, Zhang, Dai, and Wang, 2023, Asian Herpetol. Res., 14: 52.

Cynops yunnanensis — Lyu, Qi, Zhang, Dai, and Wang, 2023, Asian Herpetol. Res., 14: 52.

Common Names

Chuxiong Fire-bellied Newt (Cynops cyanurus chuxiongensis: Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 52).

Jingdong Fire-bellied Newt ( Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 429).

Pu'er Fire-bellied Newt (Hypselotriton puerensis: Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 431).

Distribution

Northeastern and central Yunnan (Counties of Chuxiong, Dali, Jingdon, Kunming, Quijing, Shiping, Wuding, Xinping, Puer, Xishuangbann, and Yiling), China, between 2400 and 2600 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 48, compared the subspecies Cynops cyanurus cyanurus (now Hypselotriton cyanurus) and Cynops cyanurus chuxiongensis (now part of Hypselotriton yunnanensis). Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 20, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China (as Cynops cyanurus). Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 398–401, provided an account of their Cynops cyanurus chuxiongensis, photograph, and range map, noted that this is a member of the Cynops cyanurus group, and argued that because the manuscript was received by the publisher prior to the appearance of Cynops cyanurus yunnanensis that chuxiongensis should be the name of priority. However, because it is the date of receipt of the published product by readers and libraries that counts, the name yunnanensis has priority. Cui, Han, Li, Fan, Yang, Yang, Ni, Li, Yao, Xu, Zeng, Li, Sun, Zhang, and Zhang, 2020, MtDNA, Part B, 5: 231–232, discussed the complete mitochondrial genome of nominal Cynops cyanurus chuxiongensis. Lyu, Qi, Zhang, Dai, and Wang, 2023, Asian Herpetol. Res., 14: 52, questioned the distinctiveness of of Cynops chuxiongensis but noted that its status is unclear. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 429–431, provided accounts (as Hypselotriton puerensis and Hypselotriton yunnanensis) summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Lyu, Qi, Zhang, Dai, and Wang, 2023, Asian Herpetol. Res., 14: 41–53, addressed the systematics of this species and near relatives.

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