Pachytriton archospotus Shen, Shen, and Mo, 2008

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Pachytriton > Species: Pachytriton archospotus

Pachytriton archospotus Shen, Shen, and Mo, 2008, Acta Zool. Sinica, 56: 645-652. Holotype: HNNUL 870526511, by original designation. Type locality: "Qiyunshan 25° 24 N 114° 0´ E Guidong County, Hunan Province. China, at the altitude of 1250 m."

Common Names

Guidong Stout Newt (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 100). 

Guidong Stout Newt (Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 272). 

Guidong Paddle-tailed Newt (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 468). 

弓斑肥螈 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: Appendix 1, 2).

Distribution

Yunxiao Mountains in Hunan (Chaling, Guidong, Rucheng, west slope of Luoxiaoshan, Yanling, and Youxian), Jiangxi (Chongyi, Jinggangshan, Longnan, and Shangyou), and into ajacent northern Guangdong.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 91, provided a brief account including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 100–101, provided an account, photographs, and a map.  Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 171, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 325–327, provided an account, photograph, and range map. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 73–77, provided an account. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 272–273, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 468–469, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).  

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