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SALAMANDRID.E. 



6. PACHYTRITON. 



Pachytriton, Boulenger, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1878, p. 72. 



Tongue large, covering the floor of the mouth, adherent, its an- 

 terior border slightly free. Palatine teeth in two oblique series, 

 meeting in front. Fronto-squamosal arch present, ligamentous 

 posteriorly ; pterygoid united suturally with maxillary. Toes five. 

 Tail cylindrical at the base, compressed at the end. 



China. 



1. Pachytriton brevipes. (Plate I.) 



Triton brevipes, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) i. p. 116. 

 Pachytriton brevipes, Bouleng. I. c. 



Skull narrow anteriorly ; nasals widely separated by nasal pro- 

 cesses of premaxillaries ; frontals with much -developed orbital pro- 

 cesses directed towards, but not reaching, the squamosals; exoccipitals 

 large ; the pterygoids and maxillaries so united as to seem to form 

 a single bone. Palatine teeth forming a A 5 the summit on a line 

 with the choanse. Head depressed, fish-like ; mouth not deeply 

 cleft, with much-developed labial lobes ; eye small ; upper eyelid 

 little developed ; snout rounded ; head a little longer than broad, 

 the greatest width at temporal regions. Body rather depressed, 

 about four times the length of the head ; no dorsal crest. Limbs 

 short, clumsy ; fingers and toes very short and obtuse, depressed, 

 free ; no carpal or tarsal tubercles. Tail as long as head and body, 

 cylindrical in its anterior third, then becoming strongly compressed 

 and furnished with a low crest ; its end rounded. Vent-opening 

 longitudinal, its borders not swollen, with long cilia in the breeding 

 male. Skin quite smooth ; parotoid region thickened, not porous ; 

 a distinct gular fold. Olive-brown above, punctate all over with 

 blackish; tips of fingers and toes and lower surfaces yellowish, the 

 latter regions punctate with blackish. 



Total length 187 millim. 



From snout to cloaca 92 „ 



Head 20 „ 



Width of head 18 „ 



Fore limb 23 „ 



Hind limb 25 „ 



Tail 95 „ 



South Kiansi. 



a. 2 • S. Kiansi. Paris Museum [E.]. 



