Asiatic salamander

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Asiatic salamanders
Hynobius kimurae (cropped) edit.jpg
Hida Salamander
Scientific classification
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Hynobiidae
Genera

Batrachuperus
Hynobius
Liua
Onychodactylus
Pachyhynobius
Paradactylodon
Pseudohynobius
Protohynobius
Ranodon
Salamandrella

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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. About half of hynobiids are unique to Japan.[1]

Hynobiid salamanders practice external fertilization, or spawning. And, unlike other salamander families which reproduce internally, male hynobiids focus on egg sacs rather than females during breeding.[2] The female lays two egg sacs at a time, each containing up to 70 eggs. Parental care is common.[3]

A few species have very reduced lungs, or no lungs at all. The tadpoles can sometimes have reduced external gills if they live in cold and very oxygen-rich water.[4]

Phylogeny

Cladograms based on the work of Pyron and Wiens (2011)[5] and modified using Mikko Haaramo [6]



?†Iridotriton hechti



?†Liaoxitriton



?Protohynobius puxiongensis



Onychodactylus





Pachyhynobius shangchengensis



Salamandrella



Hynobiinae

Hynobius





Ranodon sibiricus



Paradactylodon





Batrachuperus




Liua



Pseudohynobius








Classification

Currently, 54 species are known. These genera make up the Hynobiidae:

Subfamily Hynobiinae

References

  1. (Hasumi 2002).
  2. (Hasumi, 2002).
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  4. Hasumi, M. (2002). About hynobiids. Retrieved May 8, 2005 from [1].
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External links

Data related to Hynobiidae at Wikispecies