''Batrachuperus'' is a genus of
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 ...
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. A ...
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
and adjacent Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
. Their common name is stream salamanders or mountain salamanders. Species now in ''Paradactylodon
''Paradactylodon'', the mountain salamanders or Middle Eastern stream salamanders, is a genus of salamanders in the family Hynobiidae
The Asiatic salamanders (family Hynobiidae) are primitive salamanders found all over Asia, and in European Ru ...
'' were formerly part of the then paraphyletic
In taxonomy (general), taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's most recent common ancestor, last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few Monophyly, monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be pa ...
''Batrachuperus''.[
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Species
The genus currently contains six species:Batrachuperus karlschmidti
The Chiala mountain salamander (''Batrachuperus karlschmidti'') is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae endemic to China and known from northwestern Sichuan, northeastern Tibet, and southeastern Gansu. Its validity as a species dist ...
'' Liu, 1950 (Chiala mountain salamander)
* '' Batrachuperus londongensis'' Liu and Tian, 1978 (Longdong stream salamander)
* '' Batrachuperus pinchonii'' David, 1872 (Western Chinese mountain salamander)
* ''Batrachuperus tibetanus
The alpine stream salamander (''Batrachuperus tibetanus'') is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae endemic to central China. Its natural habitats are rivers and freshwater springs. It is threatened by habitat loss
Habitat dest ...
'' Schmidt, 1925 (Alpine stream salamander)
* '' Batrachuperus yenyuanensis'' Liu, 1950 (Yenyuan stream salamander)
References
Amphibians of Asia
Amphibian genera
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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