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Tylototriton  Anderson, 1871
Taxonomic Serial No.: 208241

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Tylotriton Anderson, 1871
  
    Yaotriton Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009
  
    Qiantriton Fei, Ye and Jiang, 2012
  
    Liangshantriton Fei, Ye and Jiang, 2012
  
    Qianotriton Fei, Ye and Jiang, 2012
  
    Triturus (Tylototriton) Anderson, 1871
  
  Common Name(s): crocodile newts [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2025   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassAmphibia  – amphibiens, anfíbio, Amphibians  
                         OrderCaudata  – salamandres, salamandra, Salamanders  
                            FamilySalamandridae Goldfuss, 1820 – Salamanders, Newts  
                               SubfamilyPleurodelinae Tschudi, 1838  
                                  GenusTylototriton Anderson, 1871 – crocodile newts  
    Direct Children:  
                                     Species Tylototriton anguliceps Le, Nguyen, Nishikawa, Nguyen, Pham, Matsui, Bernardes and Nguyen, 2015  
                                     Species Tylototriton anhuiensis Qian, Sun, Li, Guo, Pan, Kang, Wang, Jiang, Wu and Zhang, 2017  
                                     Species Tylototriton asperrimus Unterstein, 1930  
                                     Species Tylototriton broadoridgus Shen, Jiang and Mo, 2012  
                                     Species Tylototriton dabienicus Chen, Wang and Tao, 2010  
                                     Species Tylototriton daloushanensis Zhou, Xiao and Luo, 2022  
                                     Species Tylototriton gaowangjienensis J. Huang, Y. Xiang, Y.-X. Zhang, T. Wu and W.-S. Jiang, 2024  
                                     Species Tylototriton hainanensis Fei, Ye and Yang, 1984  
                                     Species Tylototriton himalayanus Khatiwada, Wang, Ghimire, Vasudevan, Paudel and Jiang, 2015  
                                     Species Tylototriton houi Hernandez and Dufresnes, 2022  
                                     Species Tylototriton joe Rao, Zeng, Zhu and Ma, 2022  
                                     Species Tylototriton kachinorum Zaw, Lay, Pawangkhanant, Gorin and Poyarkov, 2019  
                                     Species Tylototriton koliaensis Poyarkov, Nguyen, Le, Le, Arkhipov, Gorin, Hernandez and Dufresnes, 2024  
                                     Species Tylototriton kweichowensis Fang and Chang, 1932  
                                     Species Tylototriton liuyangensis Yang, Jiang, Shen and Fei, 2014  
                                     Species Tylototriton lizhenchangi Hou, Zhang, Jiang, Li and Lu in Hou, Li and Lü, 2012  
                                     Species Tylototriton maolanensis Li, Wei, Cheng, Zhang and Wang, 2020  
                                     Species Tylototriton ngoclinhensis Phung, Pham, Nguyen, Ninh, Nguyen, Bernardes, Le, Ziegler and Nguyen, 2023  
                                     Species Tylototriton notialis Stuart, Phimmachak, Sivongxay and Robichaud, 2010  
                                     Species Tylototriton obsti Bernardes, Le, T. Q. Nguyen, C. T. Pham, A. V. Pham, Nguyen and Ziegler in Bernardes et al., 2020  
                                     Species Tylototriton panhai Nishikawa, Khonsue, Pomchote and Matsui, 2013  
                                     Species Tylototriton panwaensis Grismer, Wood, Quah, Thura, Espinoza and Murdoch, 2019  
                                     Species Tylototriton pasmansi Bernardes, Le, Nguyen, Pham, Pham, Nguyen and Ziegler, 2020  
                                     Species Tylototriton phukhaensis Pomchote, Khonsue, Thammachoti, Hernandez, Peerachidacho, Suwannapoom, Onishi and Nishikawa, 2020  
                                     Species Tylototriton podichthys Phimmachak, Aowphol and Stuart, 2015  
                                     Species Tylototriton pseudoverrucosus Hou, Gu, Zhang, Zeng and Lu in Hou, Li and Lü, 2012  
                                     Species Tylototriton pulcherrimus Hou, Zhang, Li and Lu in Hou, Li and Lü, 2012  
                                     Species Tylototriton shanjing Nussbaum, Brodie and Yang, 1995  
                                     Species Tylototriton shanorum Nishikawa, Matsui and Rao, 2014  
                                     Species Tylototriton sini Lyu, Wang, Zeng, Zhou, Qi, Wan and Wang, 2021  
                                     Species Tylototriton soimalai Pomchote, Peerachidacho, Khonsue, Sapewisut, Hernandez, Phalaraksh, Siriput and Nishikawa, 2024  
                                     Species Tylototriton sparreboomi Bernardes, Le, Nguyen, Pham, Pham, Nguyen and Ziegler, 2020  
                                     Species Tylototriton taliangensis Liu, 1950  
                                     Species Tylototriton thaiorum Poyarkov, Nguyen and Arkhipov, 2021  
                                     Species Tylototriton tongziensis Li, Liu, Shi, Wei and Wang, 2022  
                                     Species Tylototriton umphangensis Pomchote, Peerachidacho, Hernandez, Sapewisut, Khonsue, Thammachoti and Nishikawa, 2021  
                                     Species Tylototriton uyenoi Nishikawa, Khonsue, Pomchote and Matsui, 2013  
                                     Species Tylototriton verrucosus Anderson, 1871  
                                     Species Tylototriton vietnamensis Böhme, Schöttler, Nguyen and Köhler, 2005  
                                     Species Tylototriton wenxianensis Fei, Ye and Yang, 1984  
                                     Species Tylototriton yangi Hou, Zhang, Zhou, Li and Lu, 2012  
                                     Species Tylototriton zaimeng Decemson, Lalremsanga, Elangbam, Mathipi, Shinde, Purkayastha, Arkhipov, Bragin and Poyarkov, 2023  
                                     Species Tylototriton ziegleri Nishikawa, Matsui and Nguyen, 2013  
       

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  Source: Amphibian Species of the World 6.2 2025-09-15, database (version 6.2)  
  Acquired: 2025   
  Notes: Frost, Darrel R. 2025. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.2 (15 September, 2025). lectronic Database accessible at https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/index.php American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA   
  Reference for: Tylototriton   
       
  Source: Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference v6, database (version 6.0)  
  Acquired: 2019   
  Notes: Frost, Darrel R. 2019. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6 (12 September, 2019). Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA   
  Reference for: Tylototriton   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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