“…Of the nine assessed species, five are considered threatened with extinction, and three are near threatened (Table 1). Tylototriton verrucosus is the only species of newt in Southeast Asia that is currently considered Least Concern, but since the assessment was performed (van Dijk et al, 2009), new research has shown that this species actually consists of a a complex of several species, each having narrower ranges and thus more likely to be threatened (e.g., Nishikawa et al, 2013Nishikawa et al, , 2014Phimmachak et al, 2015a;Le et al, 2015;). For example, one recently described species previously thought to be T. verrucosus, T. shanorum, is endemic to Myanmar (Nishikawa et al, 2014), where it is currently known only from a few ponds at risk of development (G. Wogan, pers.…”