| Clawed salamanders | |
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| Onychodactylus fischeri | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Urodela |
| Family: | Hynobiidae |
| Subfamily: | Onychodactylinae Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012 |
| Genus: | Onychodactylus Tscudi, 1838 |
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The genus Onychodactylus, commonly known as clawed salamanders, is a genus of salamanders endemic to eastern Asia. Prior to 2012, it was thought to contain only two species: O. fischeri in the Korean peninsula & Russian Far East, and O. japonicus in Japan, on the islands of Shikoku and Honshū. Later taxonomic revisions have led to many new, microendemic species to be described in the genus.1 All species are lungless with moderately developed parotoid glands. They inhabit moist, forested mountains near small rivers, streams, and lakes. Adults of each species can reach a length of 19 cm.
Species
Species recognized as of October 2023:2
- Onychodactylus fischeri (Boulenger, 1886)
- Onychodactylus fuscus Yoshikawa and Matsui, 2014
- Onychodactylus intermedius Nishikawa and Matsui, 2014
- Onychodactylus japonicus (Houttuyn, 1782)
- Onychodactylus kinneburi Yoshikawa, Matsui, Tanabe, and Okayama, 2013
- Onychodactylus koreanus Min, Poyarkov, and Vieites, 2012
- Onychodactylus nipponoborealis Kuro-o, Poyarkov, and Vieites, 2012
- Onychodactylus pyrrhonotus Yoshikawa and Matsui, 2022
- Onychodactylus sillanus Min, Borzée, and Poyarkov, 2022
- Onychodactylus tsukubaensis Yoshikawa and Matsui, 2013
- Onychodactylus zhangyapingi Che, Poyarkov, and Yan, 2012
- Onychodactylus zhaoermii Che, Poyarkov, and Yan, 2012
References
References
- Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Jr.; Jing Che; Mi-Sook Min; Masaki Kuro-o; Fang Yan; Cheng Li; Koji Iizuka; David R. Vieites (2012). "Review of the systematics, morphology and distribution of Asian Clawed Salamanders, genus Onychodactylus (Amphibia, Caudata: Hynobiidae), with the description of four new species". Zootaxa. 3465 (1): 1–106. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3465.1.1.
- Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Onychodactylus". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
External links
External links
- AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian declines, conservation, natural history, and taxonomy. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Onychodactylus. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: November 20, 2010).