Korean salamander

The Korean salamander (Hynobius leechii), or Gensan salamander, is the most common species of salamander on the Korean peninsula, is also found and on Jeju Island and in the north-eastern Chinese provinces of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang.

Korean salamander
In Danyang
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Urodela
Family:	Hynobiidae
Genus:	Hynobius
Species:	H. leechii
Binomial name
Hynobius leechii Mori, 1928
Synonyms
Hynobius mantchuricus

Subspecies

• Hynobius leechi quelpartensis

See also

• List of amphibians of Korea
• Korean crevice salamander
• Kori salamander
• Jiyul - Buddhist nun who fasted to stop destruction of Korean salamander lands^[2]
• Some Reptiles and Amphibians from Korea by (1962) Robert G. Webb, J. Knox Jones, Jr., and George W. Byers in University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 149–173, January 31, 1962.