''Hynobius'' 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 ...
(Asian 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. A ...
, occurring in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
,
Korea
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,
China
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,
Taiwan
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and
Far East Russia
The Russian Far East (russian: Дальний Восток России, r=Dal'niy Vostok Rossii, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is admini ...
.
It contains these species:
Species
Species included (as of March 2021):
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*'' Hynobius abei'' Sato, 1934
*'' Hynobius abuensis'' Matsui, Okawa, Nishikawa, and Tominaga, 2019
*'' Hynobius akiensis'' Matsui, Okawa, and Nishikawa, 2019
*'' Hynobius amakusaensis'' Nishikawa and Matsui, 2014
*'' Hynobius amjiensis'' Gu, 1992
*'' Hynobius arisanensis'' Maki, 1922
*'' Hynobius bakan'' Matsui, Okawa, and Nishikawa, 2019
*'' Hynobius boulengeri'' (Thompson, 1912)
*'' Hynobius chinensis'' Günther, 1889
*'' Hynobius dunni'' Tago, 1931
*'' Hynobius formosanus'' Maki, 1922
*'']Hynobius fossigenus
''Hynobius fossigenus'' is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae, and is found in some prefectures in Kantō and Chūbu districts in Japan.
Like all species in the genus ''Hynobius'', it has lungs, its tail is smaller than its body ...
'' Okamiya, Sugawara, Nagano, and Poyarkov, 2018
*'' Hynobius fucus'' Lai and Lue, 2008
*'' Hynobius glacialis'' Lai and Lue, 2008
*'' Hynobius geojeensis'' Min and Borzée, 2021
*'' Hynobius guabangshanensis'' Shen, 2004
*'' Hynobius guttatus'' Tominaga, Matsui, Tanabe, and Nishikawa, 2019
*'' Hynobius hidamontanus'' Matsui, 1987
*'' Hynobius hirosei'' Lantz, 1931
*'' Hynobius ikioi'' Matsui, Nishikawa, and Tominaga, 2017
*'' Hynobius iwami'' Matsui, Okawa, Nishikawa, and Tominaga, 2019
*'' Hynobius katoi'' Matsui, Kokuryo, Misawa, and Nishikawa, 2004
*''Hynobius kimurae
The Hida salamander or Hondo salamander (''Hynobius kimurae'') is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae, the Asiatic salamanders. It is Endemism, endemic to central and western Honshu, Japan. It lives in deciduous, coniferous, and mixe ...
'' Dunn, 1923
*'' Hynobius kuishiensis'' Tominaga, Matsui, Tanabe, and Nishikawa, 2019
*'' Hynobius leechii'' Boulenger, 1887
*'' Hynobius lichenatus'' Boulenger, 1883
*'' Hynobius maoershanensis'' Zhou, Jiang, and Jiang, 2006
*'' Hynobius mikawaensis'' Matsui, Misawa, Nishikawa, and Shimada, 2017
*'' Hynobius naevius'' (Temminck and Schlegel, 1838)
*'' Hynobius nebulosus'' (Temminck and Schlegel, 1838)
*'' Hynobius nigrescens'' Stejneger, 1907
*'' Hynobius notialis'' Min and Borzée, 2021
*'' Hynobius okiensis'' Sato, 1940
*'' Hynobius osumiensis'' Nishikawa and Matsui, 2014
*'' Hynobius oyamai'' Tominaga, Matsui, and Nishikawa, 2019
*'' Hynobius perplicatus'' Min and Borzée, 2021
*''Hynobius quelpaertensis
''Hynobius quelpaertensis'', the Jeju salamander, also spelled Cheju salamander, is a species of salamander found on various islands and peninsulas off the southwestern coast of the Korean Peninsula, including Jindo, Geojedo, Jejudo, and Namha ...
'' Mori, 1928
*'' Hynobius retardatus'' Dunn, 1923
*'' Hynobius sematonotos'' Tominaga, Matsui, and Nishikawa, 2019
*'' Hynobius setoi'' Matsui, Tanabe, and Misawa, 2019
*''Hynobius setouchi
''Hynobius'' is a genus of salamander (Asian salamanders) in the family Hynobiidae, occurring in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan and Far East Russia.
It contains these species:
Species
Species included (as of March 2021):
*''Hynobius abei'' Sato, ...
'' Matsui, Okawa, Tanabe, and Misawa, 2019
*'' Hynobius shinichisatoi'' Nishikawa and Matsui, 2014
*'' Hynobius sonani'' (Maki, 1922)
*'' Hynobius stejnegeri'' Dunn, 1923
*'' Hynobius takedai'' Matsui and Miyazaki, 1984
*'' Hynobius tokyoensis'' Tago, 1931
*'' Hynobius tosashimizuensis'' Sugawara, Watabe, Yoshikawa, and Nagano, 2018
*'' Hynobius tsuensis'' Abé, 1922
*'' Hynobius tsurugiensis'' Tominaga, Matsui, Tanabe, and Nishikawa, 2019
*'' Hynobius turkestanicus'' Nikolskii, 1910
*'' Hynobius unisacculus'' Min, Baek, Song, Chang, and Poyarkov, 2016
*'' Hynobius utsunomiyaorum'' Matsui and Okawa, 2019
*'' Hynobius vandenburghi'' Dunn, 1923
*''Hynobius yangi
''Hynobius yangi'', the Kori salamander, is a species of salamander endemic to southeastern South Korea. It is a lentic-breeding species similar to the Korean salamander (''H. leechi'') but is distinguished by factors including tail shape and dor ...
'' Kim, Min, and Matsui, 2003
*'' Hynobius yiwuensis'' Cai, 1985
References
External links
* eb application 2008. Berkeley, California
''Hynobius''
AmphibiaWeb, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20040827082534/http://www.amphibiaweb.org/ (Accessed: July 28, 2008).
Amphibian genera
Taxa named by Johann Jakob von Tschudi
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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