Liua shihi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cryptobranchoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Urodela Subordo: Cryptobranchoidea

Familia: Hynobiidae
Subfamilia: Hynobiinae
Genus: Liua
Species: Liua shihi

Name

Liua shihi (Liu, 1950)

Type locality: "Chihsinling, Tachangsze, eastern Szechwan [= Sichuan], China".

Holotype: FMNH 49384.

Synonyms

• Hynobius shihi Liu, 1950
• Ranodon wushanensis Liu, Hu & Yang, 1960
• Ranodon shihi — Risch & Thorn, 1982
• Liua wushanensis — Zhao & Hu, 1983
• Liua shihi — Zhao, 1984
• Liuia shihi — Zhao in Frost, 1985
• Ranodon (Liua) shihi — Kuzmin, 1999

References

• Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 77.
• Zhao, 1984, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S., 3(1): 40.
• Zhang, Chen, Zhou, Liu, Wang, Papenfuss, Wake, and Qu, 2006, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103: 7360–7365.
• Frost, D. 2008. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.2 (15 July, 2008). Electronic Database accessible at www.research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Liua shihi
• AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Liua shihi. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.
• 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Liua shihi  (Near Threatened) Downloaded on 29 July 2008. (as Ranodon shihi)

Vernacular names

English: Wushan Salamander
日本語: リュウサンショウウオ
polski: Żaboząb syczuański