South east china cynops

[markusA]

Some pics from the three known Cynops living in East and South East China to compare colouration and pattern:

orientalis from Anhui, south of Xuanzhou

orphicus from Guangdong, Chaozhou (in alcohol in a museum collection)

fudingensis from Fujian, Taimu

 

[richard kingham]

Hello MarkusA, Most interesting pictures of Cynops, thankyou for sharing!

 

[Cole Grover]

Excellent post! Thanks for sharing. Seeing the morphological differences between the forms in very interesting. I'd be curious to see how much intraspecific variation there is between localities.

-Cole

 

[Joost]

AW: South east china cynops

Too bad they have to be killed for the so called ''type-locality''. But besides that, nice to see the differences.

 

[richard kingham]

I agree joost, far better to see them alive!

 

[Yahilles]

I wish there were some breeding orphicus in captivity instead of formaline.