Andrias
Taxonavigation
[edit]| Taxonavigation: Cryptobranchoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Cryptobranchidae
Genus: Andrias
Species (6 + †2): A. cheni – A. davidianus – A. japonicus – A. jiangxiensis – †A. matthewi – †A. scheuchzeri – A. sligoi – A. yaoluopingensis
Name
[edit]Andrias Tschudi, 1837: 545
- Type species: Salamandra scheuchzeri Holl, 1831, by monotypy.
Synonyms
[edit]- Proteocordylus Eichwald, 1831
- Megalobatrachus Tschudi, 1837
- Sieboldia Bonaparte in Gray, 1838
- Sieboldtia — Agassiz, 1838 (Unj. Emend.)
- Hydrosalamandra Leuckart, 1840
- Palaeotriton Fitzinger, 1843
- Tritogenius Gistel, 1848
- Tritomegas Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854
- Megalobranchus Van der Hoeven, 1855
- Sieboldiana — Ishikawa, 1904 (Missp.)
- Plicagnathus Cook, 1917
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Tschudi, J.J. von 1837. Über den Homo diluvii testis, Andrias Scheuchzeri. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde 5: 545–547.
Additional references
[edit]- Turvey, S.T. et al. 2019. Historical museum collections clarify the evolutionary history of cryptic species radiation in the world's largest amphibians. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5257
- Jiang, Z.-H., Huang, R., Yang, J.-J., Zhao, K., Zhang, Y.-Z., Zhang, T.-R., Zhang, Y.-C., Chu, J., Chen, J.-M. & Huang, S. 2026. A new species of the Giant Salamander genus Andrias (Amphibia, Urodela, Cryptobranchidae) from Yuexi, Anhui, China. Zoosystematics and Evolution 102(2): 649–658. DOI: 10.3897/zse.102.179377
Reference page.
Vernacular names
[edit]- English: Giant Salamanders
- 日本語: オオサンショウウオ属
- polski: Salamandry olbrzymie
- русский: Исполинская саламандра
- ไทย: ซาลาแมนเดอร์ยักษ์
