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Hynobius shinichisatoi
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Urodela
Family:	Hynobiidae
Genus:	Hynobius
Species:	H. shinichisatoi
Binomial name
Hynobius shinichisatoi Nishikawa & Matsui, 2014

Hynobius shinichisatoi, the Sobo salamander, has only been found in streams in the Sobo, Katamuki and Okue Biosphere Reserve, Japan. It is black in colour.

It had previously been described as:

• Pachypalaminus boulengeri Satō, 1954
• Hynobius (Pachypalaminus) boulengeri partim Nakamura & Ueno, 1963
• Hynobius boulengeri partim Nishikawa et al., 2001

Thus see also Hynobius boulengeri.

External links

• Article explaining the wide divergence of Hynobius salamaders in Honshu from the late Miocene

References

1. Nishikaw, Kanto; Matsui, Masafumi (2014). "Three new species of the salamander genus Hynobius (Amphibia, Urodela, Hynobiidae) from Kyushu, Japan". Zootaxa. 2852 (2): 203–226. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3852.2.3. PMID 25284394.
2. "Sobo, Katamuki and Okue Biosphere Reserve (pdf)" (PDF). Sobo, Katamuki and Okue Biosphere Reserve Promotion Council. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
3. Wikispecies: Hynobius shinichisatoi

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