Jinfo Mountain Salamander
Pseudohynobius jinfo
- Endangered
- Card rarity: Epic
- Amphibians
The Jinfo Mountain salamander is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae endemic to China, known only from Nanchuan District in Chongqing. Its type locality is a spring-fed pond on Mount Jinfo. P. jinfo specimens from Nanchuan were first assumed to be yellow-spotted salamanders, but genetic methods, and later on, discovery of adult salamanders, allowed them to be identified as a new species.
Classification
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Caudata
- Family
- Hynobiidae
- Genus
- Pseudohynobius