Guabang Shan salamander

Guabang Shan salamander
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Caudata
Family: Hynobiidae
Genus: Hynobius
Species: H. guabangshanensis
Binomial name
Hynobius guabangshanensis
Shen, Deng & Wang, 2004

The Guabang Shan salamander, Hynobius guabangshanensis, is a species of salamander in the Hynobiidae family, endemic to China, as it is only known from the locality from where it was described as a new species to science in 2004, at Guabang Shan Tree Farm in Qiyang County of Hunan Province. Its natural habitats are temperate shrubland, swamps, freshwater marshes, and seasonally flooded agricultural land.[1]

H. guabangshanensis resembles H. amjiensis but is smaller, up to 151 mm in total length and 88 mm in snout-vent length for an adult male.[2]

H. guabangshanensis is potentially threatened by habitat loss, though IUCN considers it as Data Deficient.[1]

Sources

  1. 1 2 3 Xie Feng & Jiang Jianping (2006). "Hynobius guabangshanensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  2. Shen, Y.-H.; Deng, X.-J. & Wang, B. (2004). "A new hynobiid species Hynobius guabangshanensis from Hunan Province, China (Amphibia: Hynobiidae)". Acta Zoologica Sinica. 50 (2): 209–215.


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