BULLETIN 58, TJNTTED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



MEGALOBATRACHUS JAPONICUS" (Temminck). 

 HANZAKI (.Ishikawa). 



1837. Triton japonicus Temminck, Fauna Japon., Pt. 3, Coup d'oeil, p. xxvi 

 (Japan). — Wagner, Muenchen Gelelirte Anzeiger, V, July 8, 1837, p. 55. — 

 VAN DER HoEVEN, Tijclsclir. Natuurl. Geschied., IV, Feb. 1838, p. 375. — 

 Cry ptobranchus japonicus van der Hoeven, Tijdschr. Natuurl. Geschied., 



IV, Feb. 1838, p. 384, pi. va, figs. 5-6 (Japan); Bull. Sci. Phys. Natur. 

 N^erlande (Leiden), 1838, p. 91; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1838, p. 25; 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., II, Nov. 1838, p. 2.30; Ann. Sci. Nat., (2) Zool., XI, 

 1839 (p. 63); Meai. Soc. Hist. Nat. Strasbourg, III, 1840, author's separate, 

 p. 11, pis. — ; Ann. Sci. Nat., (2) Zool., XV, 1841, p. 251 (151 by typogr. 

 en-.); Tijdschr. Natuurl. Geschied., VIII, 1841, p. 270 (blood corpuscles). 

 —Schmidt, Goddard, and van der Hoeven, Nat. Verb. Maatsch. Wet. 

 Haarlem, XIX, 1862, p. 3 (anatomy). — Hyrtl, De Cryptobr. Jap., 1865, 

 p. 9 (descr.; anat.). — Rein and von Roretz, Zool. Garten, XVII, 1876, 

 p. 33, pi. — (distrib. ; habits, etc.).— Boettger, Zool. Garten, XVII, 1876, 

 p. 432 (young).— Dambeck, Natur (Halle) (n. s.), Ill, 1877, (p. 685).— 

 WiEDERSHEiM, KopfsVel. Urodcl., 1877, p. 56, pi. ii, figs. 21-22 (skull).— 

 CoRNALiA, Atti. Soc. Ital. Sci., XXI, 1878, p. 207 (dimensions).— Hil- 

 GENDORF. Sitz. Ber. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, 1880, p. 121. — Bieletski, 

 [Rem. Physiol. Sal. Gig., 1882] p. — pi. — . — Geerts, Nouv. Arch. Mus. 

 Paris, (2) V, 1883, p. 274, pi. xvii.— Rein, Japan, Engl, ed., 1884, p. 188 

 (Hida to Iwami).— Sasaki, Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, I, Pt. 3, 1887, p. 269 

 (Iga; Ise; Yamato; habits, eggs, etc.).^ — ^Moesch, Neujalirsblatt Naturf. 

 Ges. Zuerich, 1887, p. 1, figs. 1-4 (full fig. and skel.).— Fritze, Mitth. 

 Deutsch. Ges. Ost-Asiens, V, 1891, p. 239 (absent in Yezo). — Meuron, 

 Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Neuchatel, XXI, 1893, p. 186.— Gadow, Cainbr. Nat. 

 Hist., VIII, 1901, p. 98 (fig.).— OsAWA, Mitth. Med. Fac. Univers. Tokio, 



V, no. 4, 1902 (pp. 221-427+44 pis.) (anatomy). — Andrias japonicus Lap- 

 parent, Traite Geol., 4 ed., 1900, p. 1532. — Megalobat mchus japonicus 

 Beddard, Pro(;. Zool. Soc. London, 1903, II, Pt. 2 (publ. Apr. 1904) p. 298 

 (anatomy). 



1837. Megalobatrachus sieboldi Tschudi, Neues Jahrb. Mineral. Geol. Palaeont., 

 1837, Pt. 5, Sept., p. 547 (type-locality, Japan; type in Leiden Mus.; 

 Siebold collector); Classif. Batr., Oct. 1838, p. 96, pi. vi (Japan).— Mar- 

 tens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, Zool., 1, 1876, p. 384 (southern Japan). — 

 Tritomegas sicboldii Dumeril and Bibron, Erpet. Gen., IX, 1854, 

 p. 164.— Bleeker, Natuurl. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, XVI, 1858, 

 p. 205. 



1837. Salamandra maxima Schlegel in Tschudi, Neues Jahrb. Mineral. Geol. 

 Palaeont., 1837, Pt. 5, Sept., p. 546 (not of Barton, 1808); Fauna Japon. 

 Rept., pp. 127, 139, Saur. et Batr., pis. vi, vii, viii (type-locality, "Suzu- 

 ga yama near Sakanosta",fcOkude mountains). — Siebold, Fauna Japon., 

 Rept., 1838, p. XV. — Pompe van Meerdervoort, Natuurk. Tijdschr. 

 Nederland. Indie, XX, Pts. 4-6, 1860, p. SSG.— Sieboldiamaxivia Gray, 

 Cat. Batr. Grad. Brit. Mus., 1850, p. 52 (Japan).— Phisalix, Compt. 

 Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, CXXV, 1897 (p. 121) (poisonous secretions); Bull. 

 Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1897 (p. 242).— Megalobatrachus maximus Bou- 

 LENOER, Cat. Batr. Grad. Brit. Mus., 1882, p. 80 (Japan).— Okada, Cat. 



" Signifying Japanese. 



'J Evidently Sud.saka Yama near Sakanoshita, of Hassenstein's Atlas of Japan, the 

 mountain where the Ijoundaries between the provinces of Iga, Ise, and Omi meet. 



