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Issue: Vol. 4981 No. 1: 3 Jun. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-06-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.1.11
Page range: 188–196
Abstract views: 452
PDF downloaded: 26

Taxonomic clarification and neotype designation of two Taiwanese salamanders (Amphibia, Urodela, Hynobiidae)

Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida Nihonmatsu-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan. Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Hon-machi, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
Department of Animal Science and, Technology, National Taiwan University, No. 50, Lane 155, Section 3, Keelung Rd, Da’an District, Taipei 10673, Taiwan.
Department of Animal Science and, Technology, National Taiwan University, No. 50, Lane 155, Section 3, Keelung Rd, Da’an District, Taipei 10673, Taiwan.
Department of Animal Science and, Technology, National Taiwan University, No. 50, Lane 155, Section 3, Keelung Rd, Da’an District, Taipei 10673, Taiwan.
Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida Nihonmatsu-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
School of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, No. 88, Section 4, Tingzhou Rd., Taipei 116, Taiwan.
School of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, No. 88, Section 4, Tingzhou Rd., Taipei 116, Taiwan.
School of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, No. 88, Section 4, Tingzhou Rd., Taipei 116, Taiwan.
Amphibia Holotype Hynobius Locality information Taiwan Taxonomy Topotype

Abstract

Taxonomic identification of two Taiwanese salamanders, Hynobius sonani (Maki, 1922), and H. formosanus Maki, 1922, was clarified. Based on the descriptions and measurement data in the original description, we confirmed that H. sonani has been treated as H. formosanus and vice versa, which might have been caused by confusion of sampling localities of the two species. Because we could not find the holotypes of the two species and concluded these were lost, we herein assign neotypes for these species for precluding future taxonomic confusion.

 

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