Salamanders of the Old World: species list
| Click on a species' name to view the account. Accounts of species in black (without orange underlined link) are in preparation and will be added in the course of 2010. |
| Order: Urodela |
| Family: Cryptobranchidae Fitzinger, 1826 |
| Genus: Andrias Tschudi, 1837 |
| Species: Andrias davidianus (Blanchard, 1871) Andrias japonicus (Temminck, 1836) |
| Family: Hynobiidae Cope, 1859 |
| Genus: Batrachuperus Boulenger, 1878 |
| Species: Batrachuperus karlschmidti Liu, 1950 Batrachuperus londongensis Liu & Tian, in Liu, Hu, Tian & Wu, 1978 Batrachuperus pinchonii (David, 1872) Batrachuperus taibaiensis Song, Zeng, Wu, Liu & Fu, 2001 Batrachuperus tibetanus Schmidt, 1925 Batrachuperus yenyuanensis Liu, 1950 |
| Genus: Hynobius Tschudi, 1838 |
| Species: Hynobius abei Sato, 1934 Hynobius amjiensis Gu, 1992 Hynobius arisanensis Maki, 1922 Hynobius boulengeri (Thompson, 1912) Hynobius chinensis Günther, 1889 Hynobius dunni Tago, 1931 Hynobius formosanus Maki, 1922 Hynobius fuca Lai & Lue, 2008 Hynobius glacialis Lai & Lue, 2008 Hynobius guabangshanensis Shen, Deng & Wang, 2004 Hynobius hidamontanus Matsui, 1987 Hynobius hirosei Lantz, 1931 Hynobius katoi Matsui, Kokuryo, Misawa & Nishikawa, 2004 Hynobius kimurae Dunn, 1923 Hynobius leechii Boulenger, 1887 Hynobius lichenatus Boulenger, 1883 Hynobius maoershanensis Zhou, Jiang & Jiang, 2006 Hynobius naevius (Temminck & Schlegel, 1838) Hynobius nebulosus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1838) Hynobius nigrescens Stejneger, 1907 Hynobius okiensis Sato, 1940 Hynobius quelpaertensis Mori, 1928 Hynobius retardatus Dunn, 1923 Hynobius sonani (Maki, 1922) Hynobius stejnegeri Dunn, 1923 Hynobius takedai Matsui & Miyazaki, 1984 Hynobius tokyoensis Tago, 1931 Hynobius tsuensis Abé, 1922 Hynobius turkestanicus Nikolsky, 1910 Hynobius yangi Kim, Min & Matsui, 2003 Hynobius yatsui Oyama, 1947 Hynobius yiwuensis Cai, 1985 |
| Genus: Liua Zhao & Hu, 1983 |
| Species: Liua shihi (Liu, 1950) Liua tsinpaensis (Liu & Hu in Hu, Zhao & Liu, 1966) |
| Genus: Onychodactylus Tschudi, 1838 |
| Species: Onychodactylus fischeri (Boulenger, 1886) Onychodactylus japonicus (Houttuyn, 1782) |
| Genus: Pachyhynobius Fei, Qu & Wu, 1983 |
| Species: Pachyhynobius shangchengensis Fei, Qu & Wu, 1983 |
| Genus: Paradactylodon Risch, 1984 |
| Species: Paradactylodon gorganensis (Clergue-Gazeau & Thorn, 1979) Paradactylodon mustersi (Smith, 1940) Paradactylodon persicus (Eiselt & Steiner, 1970) |
| Genus: Protohynobius Fei & Ye, 2000 |
| Species: Protohynobius puxiongensis Fei & Ye, 2000 |
| Genus: Pseudohynobius Fei & Ye, 1983 |
| Species: Pseudohynobius flavomaculatus Hu & Fei in Hu, Fei & Ye, 1978 Pseudohynobius kuankuoshuiensis Xu, Zeng & Fu, 2007 Pseudohynobius shuichengensis Tian, Li & Gu, 1998 Pseudohynobius jinfo Wei, Xiong, Hou & Zeng, 2009 |
| Genus: Ranodon Kessler, 1866 |
| Species: Ranodon sibiricus Kessler, 1866 |
| Genus: Salamandrella Dybowski, 1870 |
| Species: Salamandrella keyserlingii Dybowski,1870 Salamandrella tridactyla (Nikolskii, 1906) |
| Family: Plethodontidae Gray, 1850 |
| Subfamily: Plethodontinae Gray, 1850 |
| Genus: Karsenia Min, Yang, Bonett, Vieites, Brandon & Wake, 2005 |
| Species: Karsenia koreana Min, Yang, Bonett, Vieites, Brandon & Wake, 2005 |
| Genus: Speleomantes Gistel, 1848 |
| Species: Speleomantes ambrosii (Lanza, 1954) Speleomantes flavus (Stefani, 1969) Speleomantes genei (Temminck & Schlegel, 1838) Speleomantes imperialis (Stefani, 1969) Speleomantes italicus (Dunn, 1923) Speleomantes sarrabusensis Carranza, Romano, Arnold & Sotgiu, 2008 Speleomantes strinatii (Aellen, 1958) Speleomantes supramontis (Lanza, Nascetti & Bullini, 1986) |
| Family: Proteidae Gray, 1825 |
| Genus: Proteus Laurenti, 1768 |
| Species: Proteus anguinus Laurenti, 1768 |
| Family: Salamandridae Goldfuss, 1820 |
| Genus: Calotriton Gray, 1858 |
| Species: Calotriton arnoldi Carranza & Amat, 2005 Calotriton asper (Dugès, 1852) |
| Genus: Chioglossa Bocage, 1864 |
| Species: Chioglossa lusitanica Bocage, 1864 |
| Genus: Cynops Tschudi, 1838 |
| Species: Cynops chenggongensis Kou & Xing, 1983 Cynops cyanurus Liu, Hu & Yang, 1962 Cynops ensicauda (Hallowell, 1861) Cynops fudingensis Wu, Wang, Jiang & Hanken, 2010 Cynops orientalis (David, 1873) Cynops orphicus Risch, 1983 Cynops pyrrhogaster (Boie, 1826) Cynops wolterstorffi (Boulenger, 1905) |
| Genus: Echinotriton Nussbaum & Brodie, 1982 |
| Species: Echinotriton andersoni (Boulenger, 1892) Echinotriton chinhaiensis (Chang, 1932) |
| Genus: Euproctus Gené, 1838 |
| Species: Euproctus montanus (Savi, 1838) Euproctus platycephalus (Gravenhorst, 1829) |
| Genus: Ichthyosaura Latreille in Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801 |
| Species: Ichthyosaura alpestris (Laurenti, 1768) |
| Genus: Lissotriton Bell, 1839 |
| Species: Lissotriton vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1758) Lissotriton helveticus (Razoumowsky, 1789) Lissotriton italicus (Peracca, 1898) Lissotriton montandoni (Boulenger, 1880) Lissotriton boscai (Lataste in Tourneville, 1879) |
| Genus: Lyciasalamandra Veith & Steinfartz, 2004 |
| Species: Lyciasalamandra antalyana (Basoglu & Baran, 1976) Lyciasalamandra atifi (Basoglu, 1967) Lyciasalamandra billae (Franzen & Klewen, 1987) Lyciasalamandra fazilae (Basoglu & Atatür, 1974) Lyciasalamandra flavimembris (Mutz & Steinfartz, 1995) Lyciasalamandra helverseni (Pieper, 1963) Lyciasalamandra luschani (Wolterstorff, 1925) |
| Genus: Mertensiella Wolterstorff, 1925 |
| Species: Mertensiella caucasica (Waga, 1876) |
| Genus: Neurergus Cope, 1862 |
| Species: Neurergus crocatus Cope, 1862 Neurergus kaiseri Schmidt, 1952 Neurergus microspilotus (Nesterov, 1916) Neurergus strauchii (Steindachner, 1887) |
| Genus: Ommatotriton Gray, 1850 |
| Species: Ommatotriton ophryticus (Berthold, 1846) Ommatotriton vittatus (Gray in Jenyns, 1835) |
| Genus: Pachytriton Boulenger, 1878 |
| Species: Pachytriton archospotus Shen, Shen & Mo, 2008 Pachytriton brevipes (Sauvage, 1876) Pachytriton labiatus (Unterstein, 1930) |
| Genus: Paramesotriton Chang, 1935 |
| Species: Paramesotriton caudopunctatus (Liu & Hu in Hu, Zhao & Liu,1973) Paramesotriton chinensis (Gray, 1859) Paramesotriton deloustali (Bourret, 1934) Paramesotriton ermizhaoi Wu, Rovito, Papenfuss & Hanken, 2009 Paramesotriton fuzhongensis Wen, 1989 Paramesotriton guanxiensis (Huang, Tang & Tang, 1983) Paramesotriton hongkongensis (Myers & Leviton, 1962) Paramesotriton laoensis Stuart & Papenfuss, 2002 Paramesotriton longliensis Li, Tian, Gu & Xiong, 2008 Paramesotriton zhijinensis Li, Tian & Gu, 2008 |
| Genus: Pleurodeles Michahelles, 1830 |
| Species: Pleurodeles nebulosus (Guichenot, 1850) Pleurodeles poireti (Gervais, 1835) Pleurodeles waltl Michahelles, 1830 |
| Genus: Salamandra Laurenti, 1768 |
| Species: Salamandra algira Bedriaga, 1883 Salamandra atra Laurenti, 1768 Salamandra corsica Savi, 1838 Salamandra infraimmaculata (Martens, 1885) Salamandra lanzai Nascetti, Andreone, Capula & Bullini, 1988 Salamandra salamandra (Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Genus: Salamandrina Fitzinger, 1826 |
| Species: Salamandrina perspicillata (Savi, 1821) Salamandrina terdigitata (Lacépède, 1788) |
| Genus: Triturus Rafinesque, 1815 |
| Species: Triturus arntzenii Litvinchuk, Borkin, Dzukic & Kalezic, 1999 Triturus carnifex (Laurenti, 1768) Triturus cristatus (Laurenti, 1768) Triturus dobrogicus (Kiritzescu, 1903) Triturus karelinii (Strauch, 1870) Triturus macedonicus (Karaman, 1922) Triturus marmoratus (Latreille, 1800) Triturus pygmaeus (Wolterstorff, 1905) |
| Genus: Tylototriton Anderson, 1871 |
| Species: Tylototriton asperrimus Unterstein, 1930 Tylototriton hainanensis Fei, Ye & Yang, 1984 Tylototriton kweichowensis Fang & Chang, 1932 Tylototriton shanjing Nussbaum, Brodie & Yang, 1995 Tylototriton taliangensis Liu, 1950 Tylototriton verrucosus Anderson, 1871 Tylototriton vietnamensis Böhme, Schöttler, Truong & Köhler, 2005. Tylototriton wenxianensis Fei, Ye & Yang, 1984 |
Monday, February 15, 2010