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Vert. Japan, 1891, p. 65 (Mimasaku; Ise; Iga; Hida; Mino; Ivami; Tamba; 

 Tajima). — Boettger, Kat. Batr. Mus. Senckenberg., 1892, p. 60 (Iga). — 

 Andres, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat., XXXV, fasc. 3-4, 1896, p. 201, pi. i 

 (descr.; general). — Schnee, Natur und Haus, VIII, 1900 (p. 246) (notes 

 on living spec). — Ishikawa, Mitth. Deutsch. Ges. Ost-Asiens, IX, Pt. 1, 

 1902, p. 81 (Hondo from Mino to Suwo and Nagato; habits, propagation, 

 etc.); Proe. Nat. Hist. Tokyo Imp. Mus., I, No. 2, 1904, p. 19, pis, viii-xi 

 (general; distrib.; propag.; develop.). — Kerbert, Tijdschr. Nederland. 

 Dierk.Vereen. (2), VIII, 1903 (pp. xxviii-xxix)(eggs); Zool. Anz., XXVII, 

 1904, Feb. 23, p. 305 (propagation, etc.); Compt. Rend. Sixth Int. Zool. 

 Congr. Berne, 1904, (1905) p. 463 (propagation). — Cryptohmnchus maxi- 

 vms Chapman, Proe. Phila. Acad., 1893, p. 227 (anat.). 



1840. Hydrosalamandra siholdi Leuckart, Froriep's Neue Notizen, XIII, p. 20 

 (err. typ.). 



1854. Salamandra gigas "Schlegel" Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., IX, 

 p. 164 (lapsus.). 



1854. Tritomegas sieboldtii Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., IX, p. 426 (err. 

 typ.). 



1907. Cryptobranchas sicboldia Calmette, Les Venins, p. 330, fig. 123. 



The above ((uotations refer to Japanese specimens. A Sieholdia 

 davidiana has ])een described by Blanchard " from China, which 

 Boidenger, however, regards as identical with the Japanese species. 

 I have no means of verifying this identification. P. Krefft (in Verh. 

 Ges. Deutsch. Naturf. Aerzte, 69 Vers. Braunschw., 1897, II, Pt. 1, 

 1898, p. 187) treats of specimens beheved to be from Amoy and 

 Canton, and refers them"auf Grund allerdings oberflachhcher Unter- 

 suchung" to Cry ptohranchus japonicus. Gray, in 1873 (Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (4), XII, 1873, p. 188) mentions a skin inchiding the 

 bones of head and feet sent by Swinhoe from Shanghai, which he 

 coidd not distinguish from a Japanese specimen. 



There has been ahiiost as much confusion about the specific name 

 of the giant salamander as there has been with the generic term. 



Tlie oldest name is Temminck's Triton japonicus, which was pub- 

 li.shed in his ''Coup d'oeil," the introductory chapter to the Fauna 

 flaponica, probably as early as March or April, 1837, and certainly 

 not later than June of that jesir (see Bibliography, p. 542). In that 

 paper which was penned as early as November, 1835, Temminck 

 described the giant salamander sufficiently to give the name Triton 

 japonicus a status in zoological nomenclature.'' 



Description. — Half grown: U.S. ^.M. No. 11349; Japan; Prof. E. S. 

 Morse, collector. Vomerine teeth in an arched series between the 



a Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris, LXXIII, 1871, p. 79.— Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (4), XII, 1873, p. J88. — Sieboldia daridi David, Journ. Trois. Voy. Emp. Chinois, II, 

 1875, p. 20 (emendation) (S. W. Shensi). 



^ La Salamandre gigantesqne, Triton japonicus porte des formes bizarres: une tete 

 extremement large et deprimee, un corps applati muni d'line queue en forme de large 

 aviron, le tout porte par des pieds tres-courts; cHe vit dans les eaux limpides des 

 torrens. Cou]) d'oeil, p. xxvi. 



