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	Korean crevice salamander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Korean crevice salamander (Karsenia koreana) is a lungless salamander.
		Although plethodontid salamanders comprise seventy percent of salamander species worldwide, Karsenia koreana is the first member of this taxon known from Asia.
		Cladistic analysis using Bayesian analysis of molecular data places Karsenia koreana as sister group to the clade containing Aneides and the desmognathine salamanders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Korean_crevice_salamander (228 words)

	05.04.2005 - Discovery of American salamander in Korea tells 100 million-year-old tale
		Karsenia koreana is a lungless salamander that spends its entire life on land, living in limestone crevices in its native Korea.
		The discovery of a lungless salamander from the family Plethodontidae was made two years ago by Stephen J. Karsen, a biologist from Illinois who teaches in the Taejon Christian International School in Chungcheongnam-do province midway down the western edge of the Korean peninsula.
		To date, the salamander has been found in 16 locations in three Korean provinces, and Wake and his colleagues have established that it differs significantly from all other lungless salamanders, which make up 70 percent of the known 535 salamander species in the world.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2005/05/04_korea.shtml (1182 words)

	LiveScience.com - New Korean Salamander Looks Just Like American Cousin
		The announcement was delayed, Wake explained, because it took nearly a year and a half of "fiddling" to determine exactly what they had on their hands.
		The Korean lungless crevice salamander, of the new genus Karsenia.
		This Korean crevice salamander, a new species of lungless salamander in the genus Karsenia, was discovered in Korea by Stephen Karsen.
	www.livescience.com /animalworld/050504_salamander.html (580 words)

	Plethodontidae (Gray, 1850) Lungless Salamanders
		The lungless salamanders are distributed almost exclusively throughout the Americas, with a small group populating parts of Europe.
		In May 2005, a Korean species was discovered, Karsenia koreana, which came as a huge surprise in this mostly American family.
		Genus Karsenia (Min, Yang, Bonnett, Vieites, Brandon, and Wake, 2005) Korean Crevice Salamanders
	www.livingunderworld.org /caudata/database/plethodontidae (597 words)

	This Week in California Wild (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Yet the discovery of a new salamander species in Korea gives this image the lie.
		Living on dry land and breathing only through its moist skin, Karsenia koreana is more closely related to North American salamanders than its aquatic, lung-possessing Asian neighbors.
		How this previously unknown genus and species of salamander became the only representative of its kind in Asia is a mystery.
	www.calacademy.org /thisweek/archive/2005/20050504.html (1267 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : KnowHOW
		The observations can help scientists understand how such satellites become snagged by gas giants.
		Discovery of the lungless American salamander Karsenia koreana in Korea —comprising mixed features of most of the related species — indicates that they were more widespread (Americas through Eurasia) 60 to 100 million years ago.
		A biologist at the UC Berkeley writes in Nature, “As the climate cooled, salamanders in Americas flourished, while others got extinct.”
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050516/asp/knowhow/story_4705029.asp (242 words)

	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Karsenia koreana
		IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Karsenia koreana
		Vieites, D., Karsen, S., Min Mi-Sook, Suh Y. Yang & Wake, D. Karsenia koreana.
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	www.redlist.org /search/details.php?species=61903 (378 words)

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