Tylototriton ngarsuensis Grismer, Wood, Quah, Thura, Espinoza, Grismer, Murdoch, and Lin, 2018

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Tylototriton > Species: Tylototriton ngarsuensis

Tylototriton ngarsuensis Grismer, Wood, Quah, Thura, Espinoza, Grismer, Murdoch, and Lin, 2018, Zootaxa, 4500: 562. Holotype: LSUHC 13762, by original designation. Type locality: "Baw Hto Chang in Ngar Su Village, Ywangan Township, Taunggyi District, Shan State, Myanmar (21.15364° N, 96.43660°E WGS84) at 1212 m in elevation." Zoobank publication registration: 3518D551-CA4B-43A4-B6D3-8A159E2398E1

English Names

Ywangan Crocodile Newt (original publication). 

Ayeyarwady Crocodile Newt (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 7) 

Distribution

Vicinity of the type locality (Baw Hto Chang in Ngar Su Village, Ywnagan Township, Taunggyi District, Shan State, Myanmar, 1212 m elevation). 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Myanmar

Endemic: Myanmar

Comment

The sister taxon of nearby Tylototriton shanorum according to the original publication. See range map in Bernardes, Le, Nguyen, Pham, Pham, Nguyen, Rödder, Bonkowski, and Ziegler, 2020, ZooKeys, 935: 121–164. In the Tylototriton (Tylototritonverrucosus species group of Poyarkov, Nguyen, and Arkhipov, 2021, Taprobanica, 10: 4–22, who discussed phylogenetics. In the Tylototriton verrucosus group of Lyu, Wang, Zeng, Zhou, Qi, Wan, Li, and Wang, 2021, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 71: 697–710, who discussed phylogenetics. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 7, discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 318–319, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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