Hypselotriton

Hypselotriton

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Salamandroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Caudata Ordo: Urodela Subordo: Salamandroidea

Familia: Salamandridae
Subfamilia: Pleurodelinae
Genus: Hypselotriton
Species (11): H. chenggongensis – H. cyanurus – H. fudingensis – H. huanggangensis – H. jiaoren – H. maguae – H. oolong – H. orientalis – H. orphicus – H. wolterstorffi – H. yunnanensis

Name

Hypselotriton Wolterstorff, 1934: 257

• Type species: Molge wolterstorffi Boulenger, 1905, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Cynotriton Dubois & Raffaëlli, 2011: 152 [as subgenus]
  • Type species: Triton (Cynops) orientalis David, 1875, by original designation.

• Hakkatriton Wang, Zeng, Wei & Lyu, 2024: 1126 [as subgenus]
  • Type species: Cynops orphicus Risch, 1983, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Wolterstorff, W. 1934. Über die Gattung Hypselotriton. Zoologischer Anzeiger 108: 257–263.
• Dubois, A. & Raffaëlli, J. 2009 A new ergotaxonomy of the family Salamandridae Goldfuss, 1820 (Amphibia, Urodela). Alytes 26: 1–85.
• Wang, J., Zeng, Z.-C., Wei, T.-L. & Lyu, Z.-T. 2024. Taxonomic determination of Hypselotriton populations distributed in eastern Guangdong, China (Caudata, Salamandridae), with description of a new species and a new subgenus. Zoosystematics and Evolution 100: 1121–1134. DOI: 10.3897/zse.100.127268 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Lyu, Z.-T., Qi, S., Zhang, S.-Y., Dai, K.-Y. & Wang, Y.-Y. 2023. Two new species of Fire-Bellied Newts (Caudata, Salamandridae, Cynops) from southeastern China. Asian Herpetological Research 14(1): 41–53. DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.220059 Reference page. 
• Jiang, Z-H., Huang, S., Fan, Q-Y., Cheng, L., Gong, Y., Cui, Z-B., Zhang, T.-R., Lan, W-J., Zou, Z., Huang, X-Z., Raffaëlli, J. & Chen, J-M. 2024. A new species of the newt genus Hypselotriton (Amphibia, Urodela, Salamandridae) from Jiangxi Province, southeastern China. ZooKeys 1208: 331–346. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1208.126092 Reference page.