HYNOBIIDAE. 515 



Genus Ranodon Kessler. 



1866. Ranodon Kessler, Bull. Nat. Moscou, 39, p. 126 (type Ranodon sibiricus 



Kessler). 

 1882. Ranidens Boulenger, Cat. Bat. Grad. Brit. Mus. (2), p. 36 (substitute 



for Ranodon Kessler). 



Range : Same as that of type species. 



Diagnosis: Hynobiidae with no foot modification; lungs present; 

 premaxillary f ontanelle small ; gills of larvae ? ; vomerine teeth in two 

 short, widely separated series; tail flat; one species. 



Ranodon sibiricus Kessler. 



1866. Ranodon sibiricus Kessler, Bull. Nat. Moscou, 39, p. 126, pi. 7, f. 1-10; 

 Strauch 1870, Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg (7), 16, p. 66, pi. 11, 

 f. 3; Severtzof 1873, Izv. Imp. Obst. Lyub. Est,, 8, 2, p. 72; 

 Wiedersheim 1876, Morph. Jahrb. 2, p. 424, pi. 29, f. 2-3 (ex- 

 tremities); 1877, Morph. Jahrb. 3, p. 422, pi. 23, f. 68-70 (skull); 

 Kehrer 1886, Ber. Nat. Ges. Freiburg, I, p. 4, pi. 4, f. 3, 4, 15 (ex- 

 tremities); Nikolski, 1887, Tr. Spb. Obstch. Est, 19, p. 162; Schmal- 

 hausen 1917, Rev. Zool. Russe 2, p. 129 (extremities); Stejneger 

 1917, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 30, p. 123; Nikolski, 19l8, 

 Faune de la Russe, p. 247, ff. 48, 49-55. 



1882. Ranidens sibiricus Boulenger, Cat. Batr. Grad. Brit. Mus. (2), p. 36; 

 Kulagin 1888, Izv. M. Obstch. Lyub. Est. 56, 2, p. 34; Boettger 

 1888, Ber. Offenbach Ver., p. 169; Nikolski 1899, in Fedtschenko 

 "Reise in Turkestan," Zool. 2, pt. 7, p. 78; Kastschenko 1902, Izv. 

 Tomsk Univ., p. 20; Nikolski 1905, Zap. Imp. Akad. Nauk. S. 

 Peterburg (8), 17, p. 441; Elpateevski and Sabaneef 1907, Zool., 

 Jahrb. Syst. Th. 24, p. 263; Snitnikov 1913, Ann. Mus. Zool. St. 

 Petersbourg 18, p. 53 (habits). 



1868. Ranodon Kessleri Ballion, Bull. Nat, Moscou 41, p. 138 (Kopal); 

 Severtzof, 1873, loc. cit., p. 72. 



1873. Ranodon sp. Severtzof, loc. cit., p. 72. 



1918. Ranodon kozhevnikovi Nikolski, Faune de la Russe, p. 251, ff. 49-55, 

 pi. 3, f. 5 (Tashkent). 



Type: None known to exist. 



Type Locality: "Neighborhood of Semipalatinsk," possibly 

 erroneous. 



Range : Known certainly from Eastern Semiryechensk and Western 

 Chinese Turkestan, and it possibly occurs in Semipalatinsk and in Syr- 

 darya. 



