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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Paramesotriton hongkongensis (Myers and Leviton, 1962)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Paramesotriton > Species: Paramesotriton hongkongensis

Trituroides hongkongensis Myers and Leviton, 1962, Occas. Pap. Div. Syst. Biol. Stanford Univ., 10: 1. Holotype: CAS-SU 6378, by original designation. Type locality: "a mountain stream, on the Peak, Hong Kong Island", China.

Paramesotriton hongkongensis — Freytag, 1962, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 38: 451–459; Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 45.

Paramesotriton chinensis hongkongensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 61–62; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 90.

Paramesotriton (Paramesotriton) hongkongensis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 49, 65.

English Names

Hong Kong Warty Newt (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 15; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 48).

Hong Kong Newt (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 33; Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 329).

Distribution

Northern (Huizhou and Logmen) central (Dongguan) and coastal Guangdong adjacent to and including Hongkong, 270–940 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Hong Kong

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Paramesotriton chensis by Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 45, where it had been placed by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 90. See account by Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 329-331. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 306-310, provided an account and range map. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (for nominal Paramesotriton hongkongensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 642. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 85, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 114-115, provided an account, photographs, and map. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 159–160, provided a brief account, range map, and photograph. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 293–296, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Jono, Nishikawa, Ding, and Tang, 2014, Herpetol. Rev., 651: 651, provided a range extension to Longyandong Forest Park in Dongguan, Guangdong, China, and briefly discussed the range. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 380–383, provided an account, photograph, and range map. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 18, provided a brief account for Guangdong, China, and photograph. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 441–443, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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