Paramesotriton
| Paramesotriton | |
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| Paramesotriton hongkongensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Urodela |
| Family: | Salamandridae |
| Subfamily: | Pleurodelinae |
| Genus: | Paramesotriton Chang, 1935 |
| Type species | |
| Mesotriton deloustali Bourret, 1934 | |
| Species | |
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14 species (see text) | |
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Paramesotriton, also known as warty newts or Asian warty newts, is a genus of salamanders in the family Salamandridae. The genus is found in southwestern and southern China and in northern Vietnam. Most of the species are endemic to China, and the majority of them have been described recently, since 2008. The genus includes both pond and stream dwellers.
Taxonomy and systematics
The sister taxon of Paramesotriton is Laotriton. The genus may be divided into two species groups (subgenera), Paramesotriton and Allomesotriton.
Description
Paramesotriton have a dark brown dorsum with a prominent vertebral ridge, often also a pair of lateral ridges. The tail is high and laterally compressed. Skin texture varies from relatively smooth to very rough. Paramesotriton hongkongensis has toxic skin and ova, as has been shown for many other salamanders.
Species
Paramesotriton contains the following 14 species:
- 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
- Paramesotriton guangxiensis (Huang, Tang, and Tang, 1983) — 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
- Paramesotriton zhijinensis Li, Tian, and Gu, 2008 — Zhijin warty newt
Intrinsic Phylogeny
Intrinsic phylogeny tree of genus Paramesotriton.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 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.
- 1 2 3 Yuan, Zhiyong; Zhao, Haipeng; Jiang, Ke; Hou, Mian; He, Lizhong; Murphy, Robert W. & Che, Jing (2014). "Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Paramesotriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) with the description of a new species from Qixiling Nature Reserve, Jiangxi, southeastern China and a key to the species". Asian Herpetological Research. 5 (2): 67–79. doi:10.3724/sp.j.1245.2014.00067.
- 1 2 3 4 Yuan, Zhiyong; Wu, Yunke; Zhou, Jiajun & Che, Jing (2016). "A new species of the genus Paramesotriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from Fujian, southeastern China". Zootaxa. 4205 (6): 549–563. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4205.6.3. PMID 27988548.
- 1 2 Chan, Lauren M.; Zamudio, Kelly R. & Wake, David B. (2001). "Relationships of the salamandrid genera Paramesotriton, Pachytriton, and Cynops based on mitochondrial DNA sequences". Copeia. 2001 (4): 997–1009. doi:10.1643/0045-8511(2001)001[0997:rotsgp]2.0.co;2.
- ↑ Brodie, Edmund D.; Hensel, John L. & Johnson, Judith A. (1974). "Toxicity of the urodele amphibians Taricha, Notophthalmus, Cynops and Paramesotriton (Salamandridae)". Copeia. 1974 (2): 506–511. doi:10.2307/1442542. JSTOR 1442542.
- ↑ "Salamandridae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
- ↑ Alexander Pyron, R.; J. Weins, John (12 June 2011). "A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 61 (2). Elsevier: 543–583. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.06.012. Retrieved 8 April 2025.
External links
Data related to Paramesotriton at Wikispecies
Media related to Paramesotriton at Wikimedia Commons
