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Paramesotriton
Paramesotriton hongkongensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Urodela
Family:	Salamandridae
Subfamily:	Pleurodelinae
Genus:	Paramesotriton Chang, 1935
Type species
Mesotriton deloustali Bourret, 1934
Species
14 species (see text)
Synonyms
Mesotriton Bourret, 1934 — preoccupied by Mesotriton Bolkay, 1927 Trituroides Chang, 1935 Allomesotriton Freytag, 1983 Karstotriton Fei and Ye, 2016

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

References

1. ^ 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.
2. ^ 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.
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ 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.
5. 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.
6. "Salamandridae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2018.

External links

• Data related to Paramesotriton at Wikispecies
• Media related to Paramesotriton at Wikimedia Commons

• Paramesotriton
• Amphibian genera
• Amphibians of Asia