''Hynobius shinichisatoi'', the Sobo salamander, has only been found in streams in the

Sobo, Katamuki and Okue Biosphere Reserve The Sobo, Katamuki and Okue Biosphere Reserve also known as was created in 2017. It incorporates the 1965 quasi national parks of Sobo Katamuki Prefectural Natural Park (Ōita) (also previously known as the Sobo-Katamuki Quasi-National Park, ) ...

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

. It is black in colour. It had previously been described as:Wikispecies: Hynobius shinichisatoi
/ref> *''Pachypalaminus boulengeri'' Satō, 1954 *''Hynobius (Pachypalaminus) boulengeri partim'' Nakamura & Ueno, 1963 *'' Hynobius boulengeri partim'' Nishikawa et al., 2001 Thus see also '' Hynobius boulengeri''.

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Article explaining the wide divergence of Hynobius salamaders in Honshu from the late Miocene

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shinichisatoi Endemic amphibians of Japan Amphibians described in 2014 {{salamander-stub