The whereabouts of the salamander types described by Temminck & Schlegel in the Fauna Japonica (1838) are discussed and lectotypes are selected from the syntypes for the following nominal species : Salamandra naevia Temminck & Schlegel, S. unguiculata Temminck & Schlegel, S. subcristata Temminck & Schlegel, Molge pyrrhogaster Boie, S. nebulosa Temminck & Schlegel, S. maxima Temminck & Schlegel, Triton japonicus Temminck, S. Genei Temminck & Schlegel, Onychodactylus Schlegeli Tschudi and Megalobatrachus Sieboldii Tschudi. The holotype of S. pleurodeles Temminck & Schlegel was located and designated as lectotype of Pleurodeles waltl Michahelles. Also the holotype of S. scutata Temminck & Schlegel was found.