Pachytriton

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: Pachytriton
Species (11): P. airobranchiatus – P. archospotus – P. brevipes – P. changi – P. cheni – P. feii – P. granulosus – P. inexpectatus – P. moi – P. wuguanfui – P. xanthospilos

Name

Pachytriton Boulenger, 1878: 72

Type species: Triton brevipes Sauvage, 1877, by monotypy.

Synonyms

Pingia Chang, 1935: 425
- Type species: Pachytriton granulosus Chang, 1933, by monotypy.

References

Primary references

Boulenger, G.A. 1878. Description de deux genres nouveaux de la famille des salamandrides. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 3: 71–72.

Additional references

Shen, Y.-H., Shen, D.-W. & Mo, X.-Y. 2008. A new species of salamander (Pachytriton archospotus) from Hunan Prov. China (Amphibia, Salamandridae). Acta Zoologica Sinica 56: 645–652. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Nishikawa, K., Jiang, J.-P. & Matsui, M. 2011. Two New Species of Pachytriton from Anhui and Guangxi, China (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae). Current Herpetology 30(1): 15–31. DOI: 10.3105/018.030.0102 Reference page.
Nishikawa, K., Jiang, J.-P., Matsui, M. & Mo, Y.-M. 2011. Unmasking Pachytriton labiatus (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae), with description of a new species of Pachytriton from Guangxi, China. Zoological Science 28(6): 453–461. DOI: 10.2108/zsj.28.453 Reference page.
Wu, Y., Wang, Y. & Hanken, J. 2012. New species of Pachytriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from the Nanling Mountain Range, southeastern China. Zootaxa 3388: 1–16. Preview Reference page.
Nishikawa, K., Matsui, M. & Jiang, J.-P. 2012. A new species of Pachytriton from China (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae). Current Herpetology 31(1): 21–27. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.31.21Reference page.
Yunke Wu, Yuezhao Wang & James Hanken 2012. Comparative Osteology of the Genus Pachytriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) From Southeastern China. Asian Herpetological Research 3(2): 83–102. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1245.2012.00083
Yuan, Z-Y., Zhang, B-L. & Che, J. 2016. A new species of the genus Pachytriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from Hunan and Guangxi, southeastern China. Zootaxa 4085(2): 219–232. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.2.3.Reference page.
Li, C., Yuan, Z.-Y., Li, H.-B. & Wu, Y.-K. 2018. The tenth member of stout newt (Amphibia: Salamandridae: Pachytriton): Description of a new species from Guangdong, southern China. Zootaxa 4399(2): 207–219. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4399.2.5. Reference page.
Nishikawa, K., Goldschmidt, T., Hiruta, S. & Shimano, S. 2020. Taxonomic amendments of Southeast Asian newt species of the genera Pachytriton, Paramesotriton and Laotriton (Amphibia, Urodela, Salamandridae) parasitized by water mites of the subgenus Lurchibates (Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae, Hygrobates). Zootaxa 4768(2): 297–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4768.2.11 Reference page.
He, Z.-R., Wu, S.-Y., Wang, S.-Q., Ma, L., Zhao, N., Wu, X.-B. & Wang, S.-P. 2025. A New Species of Pachytriton (Amphibia: Caudata: Salamandridae) from Anhui, China. Animals 15(20): 3018. DOI: 10.3390/ani15203018 Reference page.

Vernacular names

English: Paddletail Newts