''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 t ...

(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, Korea, China, Taiwan and Far East Russia. It contains these species:

Species

Species included (as of March 2021): *''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'' 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'' 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'' Mori, 1928 *''Hynobius retardatus'' Dunn, 1923 *''Hynobius sematonotos'' Tominaga, Matsui, and Nishikawa, 2019 *''Hynobius setoi'' Matsui, Tanabe, and Misawa, 2019 *''Hynobius setouchi'' 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'' Kim, Min, and Matsui, 2003 *''Hynobius yiwuensis'' Cai, 1985

Intrinsic Phylogeny

Intrinsic phylogeny tree of genus ''Hynobius.''

References

External links

* [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California
''Hynobius''
AmphibiaWeb, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20040827082534/http://www.amphibiaweb.org/ (Accessed: July 28, 2008). Hynobius, Amphibian genera Taxa named by Johann Jakob von Tschudi Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{salamander-stub