Invalid specific status of Hynobius sadoensis Sato: electrophoretic evidence (Amphibia: Caudata)
Invalid specific status of Hynobius sadoensis Sato: electrophoretic evidence (Amphibia: Caudata)
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Hynobius satoensis Sato 的具体状态无效:电泳证据(两栖类:有尾目)
DOI:
10.2307/1564886
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发表时间:
1992
影响因子:
0.8
通讯作者:
M. Kumakura
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文献类型:
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作者:
M. Matsui;H. Iwasawa;Hisashi Takahashi;Terutake Hayashi;M. Kumakura
Allozyme variation was examined in Hynobius sadoensis from Sado Island in the Japan Sea and H. nigrescens from Honshu, Japan. Hynobius sadoensis cannot be distinguished genetically from populations of H. nigrescens, and is thus synonymized with H. nigrescens. A complex pattern of genetic differentiation was found among mainland populations of H. nigrescens. The Sado salamander, Hynobius sadoensis, was described by Sato (1940) from Sado Island in the Japan Sea, off the coast of Niigata in the Chubu District of mainland Honshu. Sato (1940) noted that this species was most similar to H. nigrescens Stejneger, 1907, but differed from it in several characteristics of adult external and internal morphology, and the egg sac envelope. Hynobius nigrescens is the most widely distributed of Japanese Hynobius species; it occurs throughout the Tohoku District and parts of the Kanto and Chubu districts of northeastern Honshu (Iwasawa, 1981). Nakamura and U6no (1963) considered these two species conspecific and synonymized H. sadoensis with H. nigrescens, ado salamander, Hynobius adoensis, was ibed by Sato (1940) from Sado Island in apan Sea, of the coast of Niigata in the District of mainland Honshu. Sato (1940) that this species was most similar to H. escens Stejneger, 1907, but differ d from it 5 Present Address: Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 320, Japan. without recognizing subspecies. Later, Okada (1970) treated H. sadoensis as a distinct subspecies of H. nigrescens. Both of these taxonomic treatments were relatively superficial, and few subsequent studies have addressed this problem (Iwasawa, 1981; Nambu, 1991). Small salamanders of the genus Hynobius, including H. sadoensis and H. nigrescens, are notoriously difficult to identify based on morphology alone. Recent studies of Japanese Hynobius demonstrate that electrophoresis is particularly useful for clarifying the taxonomic status of populations and systematic relationships of these salamanders (Matsui and Miyazaki, 1984; Matsui, 1987). This study provides electrophoretic evidence that Hynobius sadoensis should be included in the synonymy of H. ni-