Paramesotriton aurantius

Paramesotriton aurantius is a warty newt described as a new species in a 2016 Zootaxa paper from Fujian, on the south-eastern coast of China. Genetic comparison shows it to be the sister taxon of the Hong Kong warty newt, Paramesotriton hongkongensis, from which it differs by an uncorrected pairwise distance of 5.8% in the ND2 gene fragment analysed. (open-access original descriptions, Wikipedia and web summaries)