The Jinfo Mountain salamander (''Pseudohynobius jinfo'') is a species 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 ...

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 ...

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, known only from

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(formerly Sichuan). Its type locality is a spring-fed pond on Mount Jinfo. ''P. jinfo'' specimens from Nanchuan were first assumed to be yellow-spotted salamanders (''P. flavomaculatus''), but genetic methods, and later on, discovery of adult salamanders, allowed them to be identified as a new species.

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