Echinotriton is a genus of salamanders in the family Salamandridae.

Echinotriton
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Salamandridae
Subfamily: Pleurodelinae
Genus: Echinotriton
Nussbaum & Brodie, 1982

Species

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It contains the following species:[1]

Image Scientific name Distribution
  Echinotriton andersoni (Boulenger, 1892) Ryukyu Islands of Japan, and, at least formerly, Mount Guanyin in northern Taiwan
Echinotriton chinhaiensis (Chang, 1932) Zhejiang province, China
Echinotriton maxiquadratus Hou, Wu, Yang, Zheng, Yuan, and Li, 2014 China


References

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  1. ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Echinotriton". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Retrieved 11 October 2019.