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Jinfo Mountain Salamander
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IUCN EN · Endangered

Jinfo Mountain Salamander

Pseudohynobius jinfo

The Jinfo Mountain salamander (Pseudohynobius jinfo) is a species of salamander in the Hynobiidae family endemic to China, known only from Nanchuan District in Chongqing (formerly Sichuan). Its type locality is a spring-fed pond on Mount Jinfo. P. jinfo specimens from Nanchuan were first assumed to be yellow-spotted salamanders (P. flavomaculatus), but genetic methods, and later on, discovery of adult salamanders, allowed them to be identified as a new species.

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