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Title: Taxonomic Relationship of Two Newt Species of Pachytriton Recently Described from China (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae)
Authors: Nishikawa, Kanto  kyouindb  KAKEN_id  orcid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6274-4959 (unconfirmed)
Matsui, Masafumi
Wang, Bin
Yoshikawa, Natsuhiko
Jiang, Jian-Ping
Author's alias: 松井, 正文
Keywords: Specific status
Synonymy
Pachytriton
Molecular phylogeny
China
Issue Date: Aug-2013
Publisher: Herpetological Society of Japan
Journal title: Current Herpetology
Volume: 32
Issue: 2
Start page: 150
End page: 158
Abstract: We assessed the taxonomic relationship of Pachytriton changi Nishikawa, Matsui et Jiang, 2012 and P. xanthospilos Wu, Wang et Hanken, 2012 using partial mitochondrial DNA sequence and found them to be so closely related as to be regarded as conspecific. This result, together with available morphological information, strongly indicates that P. xanthospilos is a subjective junior synonym of P. changi. By this synonymization, southern Hunan and northern Guangdong provinces are shown to be a part of the natural distribution range of P. changi, whose type locality is known only as China. However, known localities in this range are restricted and endangered status of the species is not changed.
Rights: © 2013 by The Herpetological Society of Japan
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2433/216849
DOI(Published Version): 10.5358/hsj.32.150
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