Paramesotriton
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Paramesotriton hongkongensis
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Urodela |
| Family: | Salamandridae |
| Subfamily: | Pleurodelinae |
| Genus: | Paramesotriton Chang, 1935 |
| Type species | |
Mesotriton deloustali
, 1934 | |
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14 species (see text) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Paramesotriton, also known as warty newts
Taxonomy and systematics
The
Description
Paramesotriton have a dark brown
Paramesotriton hongkongensis has toxic skin and ova, as has been shown for many other salamanders.[5]
Species
Paramesotriton contains the following 14 species:[1][6]
- Paramesotriton aurantius Yuan, Wu, Zhou, and Che, 2016
- Paramesotriton caudopunctatus (Liu and Hu, 1973) — spot-tailed warty newt
- Paramesotriton chinensis (Gray, 1859) — Chinese warty newt
- Paramesotriton deloustali (Bourret, 1934) — Tam Dao salamander, Vietnamese salamander
- Paramesotriton fuzhongensis Wen, 1989 — Wanggao warty newt
- Guangxi warty newt
- Paramesotriton hongkongensis (Myers and Leviton, 1962) — Hong Kong warty newt, Hong Kong newt
- Paramesotriton labiatus (Unterstein, 1930)
- Paramesotriton longliensis Li, Tian, Gu, and Xiong, 2008
- Paramesotriton maolanensis Gu, Chen, Tian, Li, and Ran, 2012
- Paramesotriton qixilingensis Yan, Zhao, Jiang, Hou, He, Murphy, and Che, 2014
- Paramesotriton wulingensis Wang, Tian, and Gu, 2013
- Paramesotriton yunwuensis Wu, Jiang, and Hanken, 2010
- Zhijin warty newt
References
- ^ a b c d e f Frost, Darrel R. (2018). "Paramesotriton Chang, 1935". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
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- ^ PMID 27988548.
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- JSTOR 1442542.
- ^ "Salamandridae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
External links
Data related to Paramesotriton at Wikispecies
Media related to Paramesotriton at Wikimedia Commons
