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Yellow-spotted Salamander
The yellow-spotted salamander (''Pseudohynobius flavomaculatus'') is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae, endemic to China, where it is known from Nanchuan in Chongqing (formerly Sichuan), Suiyang in Guizhou, Lichuan in Hubei, and Sangzhi in Hunan Province. However, genetic methods have revealed cryptic species within the ''Liua''–''Pseudohynobius ''Pseudohynobius'' is a genus of salamanders in the family Hynobiidae The Asiatic salamanders (family Hynobiidae) are primitive salamanders found all over Asia, and in European Russia. They are closely related to the giant salamanders (family ...'' complex, and the actual distribution of the yellow-spotted salamander is turning out to be different. Only animals from Lichuan in Hubei and Sangzhi have been positively identified as being yellow-spotted salamanders, whereas animals collected from Nanchuan were described as a new species, '' P. jinfo'', by Wei et al. in 2009. The yellow-spotted salamander, known lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaoming Hu
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Salamander
Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults. All ten extant salamander families are grouped together under the order Urodela. Salamander diversity is highest in eastern North America, especially in the Appalachian Mountains; most species are found in the Holarctic realm, with some species present in the Neotropical realm. Salamanders rarely have more than four toes on their front legs and five on their rear legs, but some species have fewer digits and others lack hind limbs. Their permeable skin usually makes them reliant on habitats in or near water or other cool, damp places. Some salamander species are fully aquatic throughout their lives, some take to the water intermittently, and others are entirely terrestrial as adults. This group of amphibians is capable of regenerating lost lim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hynobiidae
The Asiatic salamanders (family Hynobiidae) are primitive salamanders found all over Asia, and in European Russia. They are closely related to the giant salamanders (family Cryptobranchidae), with which they form the suborder Cryptobranchoidea. About half of hynobiids currently described are endemic to Japan. Hynobiid salamanders practice external fertilization, or spawning. And, unlike other salamander families which reproduce internally, male hynobiids focus on egg sacs rather than females during breeding. The female lays two egg sacs at a time, each containing up to 70 eggs. Parental care is common. A few species have very reduced lungs, or no lungs at all. Larvae can sometimes have reduced external gills if they live in cold and very oxygen-rich water. Fossils of hynobiids are known from the Miocene to the present in Asia and Eastern Europe, though fossils of Cryptobranchoids more closely related to hynobiids than to giant salamanders extend back to the Middle Jurassic. Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanchuan District
Nanchuan () is a district and former county of Chongqing, China, bordering Guizhou Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to t ... province to the south. Administration Climate Transport * Nanchuan–Fuling Railway References Districts of Chongqing {{Chongqing-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suiyang County
Suiyang County () is a county in Guizhou Province, China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Zunyi. It has an area of 2,566 square kilometers and a population of 560,000 as of 2017. Suiyang leaf-litter toad, ''Leptobrachella suiyangensis ''Leptobrachella suiyangensis'', also known as Suiyang leaf-litter toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae. It is endemic to Guizhou province in southern China and so far only known from Huoqiuba Nature Reserve, its type locality ...'', is only known from the Huoqiuba Nature Reserve in Suiyang County. Climate References External linksOfficial website of Suiyang County government County-level divisions of Guizhou Zunyi {{Guizhou-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lichuan, Hubei
Lichuan () is a county-level city of the Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in southwestern Hubei province, People's Republic of China, located west of Enshi City, the prefecture seat. It borders Chongqing Municipality to the southwest, west, and north. It has approximately 870,000 inhabitants. Nature Lichuan is believed to be the location of most (if not all) of the naturally growing ''Metasequoia glyptostroboides'' trees in existence. The genus ''Metasequoia'', related to the giant Sequoioideae, redwoods of North America, was first described as a fossil from the Mesozoic Era in 1941. But in 1943 a small stand of an unidentified tree was discovered in Modaoxi (), presently known as Moudao () Town, in Lichuan County, by Zhan Wang. After the end of the World War II, this tree species was officially described as the only living species of ''Metasequoia'', and given the scientific name ''Metasequoia glyptostroboides''. In 1948 the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sangzhi County
Sangzhi () is a county in Hunan, Hunan Province, China, it is under administration of the prefecture-level city of Zhangjiajie. Located on the northern margin of Hunan, Sangzhi County is bordered to the east by Cili County, to the south by Yongding District, Zhangjiajie, Yongding and Wulingyuan Districts, to the west by Yongshun County, Yongshun and Longshan County, Longshan Counties, to the north by Xuan'en County, Xuan'en and Hefeng County, Hefeng Counties of Hubei, Sangzhi is also the home of the Tujia people, Tujia, Miao people, Miao and Bai people. The County has an area of with rough 479,500 of population (as of 2015). It is divided into 23 township-level divisions (November 27, 2015), its county seat is Liyuan, Sangzhi, Liyuan Town (). History Migrant workers from Sangzhi have worked as drillers in the construction boom in the city of Shenzhen. As a result, silicosis has become a local health concern. Kuzhu Village, with architecture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cryptic Species Complex
In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear. The taxa in the complex may be able to hybridize readily with each other, further blurring any distinctions. Terms that are sometimes used synonymously but have more precise meanings are cryptic species for two or more species hidden under one species name, sibling species for two (or more) species that are each other's closest relative, and species flock for a group of closely related species that live in the same habitat. As informal taxonomic ranks, species group, species aggregate, macrospecies, and superspecies are also in use. Two or more taxa that were once considered conspecific (of the same species) may later be subdivided into infraspecific taxa (taxa within a species, such as bacterial strains or plant varieties Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liua
''Liua'' is a genus of salamanders (common name: Sichuan salamanders) in the family Hynobiidae, endemic to China. Species The genus contains only two species: * ''Liua shihi'' (Liu, 1950) — Wushan salamander (synonym: ''Ranodon shihi'') * ''Liua tsinpaensis'' (Liu and Hu, 1966) — Tsinpa salamander (synonym: ''Ranodon tsinpaensis'') References External links *Caudata Culture 2009Hynobiidae. Asiatic salamanders Amphibians of Asia Endemic fauna of China Amphibian genera Taxa named by Zhao Ermi {{salamander-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudohynobius
''Pseudohynobius'' is a genus of salamanders in the family Hynobiidae The Asiatic salamanders (family Hynobiidae) are primitive salamanders found all over Asia, and in European Russia. They are closely related to the giant salamanders (family Cryptobranchidae), with which they form the suborder Cryptobranchoidea. ... and is endemic to China. It contains these species: *'' Pseudohynobius flavomaculatus'' (Hu and Fei, 1978) (yellow-spotted salamander) *'' Pseudohynobius guizhouensis'' Li, Tian, and Gu, 2010 (Guizhou salamander) *'' Pseudohynobius jinfo'' Wei, Xiong, and Zeng, 2009 (Jinfo Mountain salamander) *'' Pseudohynobius kuankuoshuiensis'' Xu and Zeng, 2007 (Kuankuoshui salamander) *'' Pseudohynobius puxiongensis'' (Fei and Ye, 2000) (Puxiong salamander) *'' Pseudohynobius shuichengensis'' Tian, Gu, Li, Sun, and Li, 1998 (Shuicheng salamander) References Amphibians of Asia Amphibian genera {{Salamander-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudohynobius Jinfo
The Jinfo Mountain salamander (''Pseudohynobius jinfo'') is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae endemic to China, known only from Nanchuan District in Chongqing (formerly Sichuan). Its type locality is a spring-fed pond on Mount Jinfo. ''P. jinfo'' specimens from Nanchuan were first assumed to be yellow-spotted salamander The yellow-spotted salamander (''Pseudohynobius flavomaculatus'') is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae, endemic to China, where it is known from Nanchuan in Chongqing (formerly Sichuan), Suiyang in Guizhou, Lichuan in Hubei, a ...s (''P. flavomaculatus''), but genetic methods, and later on, discovery of adult salamanders, allowed them to be identified as a new species. References Further reading *AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. 2008. Berkeley, California''Pseudohynobius jinfo'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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