Hida salamander

Hida salamander
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Urodela
Family:	Hynobiidae
Genus:	Hynobius
Species:	H. kimurae
Binomial name
	Hynobius kimurae; Dunn, 1923
Synonyms
	Hynobius luteopunctatus Hatta, 1914 — nomen nudum ; Pseudosalamandra hida Tago, 1929 — nomen nudum ;

The Hida salamander or Hondo salamander (Hynobius kimurae) is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae, the Asiatic salamanders. It is endemic to central and western Honshu, Japan.^[2] It lives in deciduous, coniferous, and mixed forests, where it breeds in streams.^[1] The egg sacs of this species were reported to display blue-to-yellow iridescent glow due to a quasi-periodic diffraction grating structure embedded within the enveloppes of the egg sacs.^[3] These salamanders typically spawn from February to April, leading some to metamorphose in late September while others wait for the following year to do so after winter is over.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2021). "Hynobius kimurae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T188970983A177183757. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T188970983A177183757.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b Frost, Darrel R. (2018). "Hynobius kimurae Dunn, 1923". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
^ Zabuga, Aleksandra V.; Arrigo, Marcelle I.; Teyssier, Jérémie; Mouchet, Sébastien R.; Nishikawa, Kanto; Matsui, Masafumi; Vences, Miguel; Milinkovitch, Michel C. (7 February 2020). "Translucent in air and iridescent in water: structural analysis of a salamander egg sac". Soft Matter. 16 (7): 1714–1721. Bibcode:2020SMat...16.1714Z. doi:10.1039/C9SM02151E. PMID 32031549.
^ Matsui, Masafumi & Misawa, Yasuchika (1997). "Larval life history variation in two populations of the Japanese salamander Hynobius kimurae (Amphibia, Urodela)". Zoological Science. 14 (2): 257–262. doi:10.2108/zsj.14.257. hdl:2433/65056. ISSN 0289-0003.