Pachytriton cheni

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Salamandroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa 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 Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Caudata Ordo: Urodela Subordo: Salamandroidea

Familia: Salamandridae
Subfamilia: Pleurodelinae
Genus: Pachytriton
Species: Pachytriton cheni

Name

Pachytriton cheni He, Wu, Wang, Ma, Zhao, Wu & Wang, 2025: 10

• Holotype: ANU20230001, adult ♂, collected by Zhirong He and Siyu Wu on 24 August 2023.
• Type locality: “at a mountain stream at an altitude of 950 m in Qingliangfeng Nature Reserve (30.08445491° N, 118.86914777° E), She County, Huangshan City, Anhui province, China”.

References

Primary references

• 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: Chen’s Stout Newt