Short-legged tritons [1] ( lat. Pachytriton ) is a genus of tritons from the family of real salamanders ( lat. Salamandridae ) of the caudate amphibian order. Initially it was thought that this genus was close to Euproctus , but by the course of molecular research, it was found to be close to East Asian and warty newts .
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 Pachytriton sp. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pachytriton Boulenger , 1878 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Area
Southeast provinces of China .
Description
Representatives of this kind have smooth skin without a prominent spine. The tail is flattened from the sides. The skull is long and wide.
Types
7 types [2] :
- Pachytriton archospotus Shen, Shen, and Mo, 2008
- Pachytriton brevipes (Sauvage, 1876)
- Pachytriton changi Nishikawa, Matsui, and Jiang, 2012
- Pachytriton feii Nishikawa, Jiang, and Matsui, 2011
- Pachytriton granulosus Chang, 1933
- Pachytriton inexpectatus Nishikawa, Jiang, Matsui, and Mo, 2011
- Pachytriton moi Nishikawa, Jiang, and Matsui, 2011
Notes
- Ань Ananyeva N. B. , Borkin L. Ya. , Darevsky I. S. , Orlov N. L. The Five-Language Dictionary of Animal Names. Amphibians and reptiles. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V.E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., 1988. - p. 32. - 10 500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00232-X .
- ↑ Amphibian Species of the World 6.0, an Online Reference: Pachytriton Boulenger, 1878