Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Eurycea melanopleura (Cope, 1894 "1893")

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Eurycea > Species: Eurycea melanopleura

Spelerpes melanopleurus Cope, 1894 "1893", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 45: 383. Syntypes: ANSP 10456–60, according to Fowler and Dunn, 1917, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 69: 21, and Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 348. Type locality: "among the stone on the banks of Raley's Creek, one of the head tributaries of White River", Missouri, USA. Rendered as "Riley's Cr[eek]., a tributary of the White River, Mo." by Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 316. Synonymy by Bishop, 1941, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 451: 20.

Spelerpes stejnegeri Eigenmann, 1901, Trans. Am. Microscop. Soc., 22: 189. Holotype: USNM 61259, according to Brame and Gorham, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 172; not listed in catalogue of USNM types by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220. Type locality: "Rock House cave, [Barry County,] Missouri", USA. Synonymy with Spelerpes melanopleurus by Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 316.

Eurycea melanopleura — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 17.

Eurycea longicauda melanopleura — Bishop, 1941, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 451: 20.

Eurycea (Eurycea) longicauda melanopleura — Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 187.

Eurycea (Eurycea) melanopleura — Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 564.

English Names

Cope's Cave Salamander (Eurycea longicauda melanopleura: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 428).

Black-sided Salamander (Eurycea longicauda melanopleura: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 54),

Dark-sided Salamander (Eurycea longicauda melanopleura: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 291; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 6; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 31; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 7; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 23; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 18; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 12; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 27; Powell, Conant, and Collins, 2016, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. North Am., 4th ed.: 57; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 27).

Distribution

Ozark uplifts to southeastern Kansas, northern Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma, central, southern and northeastern Missouri, and adjacent western Illinois.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - Arkansas, United States of America - Illinois, United States of America - Kansas, United States of America - Missouri, United States of America - Oklahoma

Endemic: United States of America

Comment

See comments under Eurycea longicauda, with which it was considered conspecific until 2022. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 564–566, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map)

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