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* = "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
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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
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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"
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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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Tylototriton shanjing Nussbaum, Brodie, and Yang, 1995

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Tylototriton > Species: Tylototriton shanjing

Tylototriton shanjing Nussbaum, Brodie, and Yang, 1995, Herpetologica, 51: 265. Holotype: KIZ II 0731 V.27, by original designation. Type locality: "Dingpa, 2150 m elevation, Jingdong County, Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China".

Tylototriton verrucosus shanjing — Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 19.

Tylototriton (Tylototriton) shanjing — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 68.

English Names

Red Knobby Newt (Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 275).

Yunnan Newt (Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 369).

Mandarin Salamander (Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 369).

Distribution

Western, central, and southern Yunnan, China, 1000 to 2000 m elevation; probably to be found in northern Thailand. See comment.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Likely/Controversially Present: Thailand

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Tylototriton shanjing had been placed in the synonymy of Tylototriton verrucosus by Zhang, Rao, Yu, and Yang, 2007, Zool. Res., Kunming, 28: 430–436, on the basis of minimal sequence divergence; this synonymy disputed implicitly by Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 68, and explicitly by Stuart, Phimmachak, Sivongxay, and Robichaud, 2010, Zootaxa, 2650: 28. See brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 34-35. In the Tylototriton verrucosus group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 42 (although they only addressed Chinese species). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 272-276, provided an account and range map. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 181-182, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 18-19, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 642. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 77. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 86, provided an account. Zhao, Rao, Liu, Li, and Yuan, 2012, J. W. China Forest. Sci., 41: 85–89, provided molecular evidence for the distinctiveness of this species and it sister-taxon relationship with Tylototriton daweishanensis. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 183, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Records for Laos now have been referred to Tylototriton podichthys. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 369–371, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Khatiwada, Wang, Ghimire, Vasudevan, Paudel, and Jiang, 2015, Asian Herpetol. Res., 6: 251, provided molecular evidence that suggests that Tylototriton shanjing is composed of two lineages, one of which is nested within Tylototriton verrucosus. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 272–277, provided accounts (as Tylototriton shanjing and, without comment Tylototriton pulcherrima [sic], photographs, and range map, although given the results of Nishikawa, Khonsue, Pomchote, and Matsui, 2013, Zootaxa, 3737: 277, one might expect nominal Tylototriton shanjing to be found to be a species complex. See comment under Tylototriton pulcherrimus. In the Tylototriton (Tylototriton) verrucosus species group of Poyarkov, Nguyen, and Arkhipov, 2021, Taprobanica, 10: 4–22, who discussed phylogenetics. In the Tylototriton verrucosus group of Lyu, Wang, Zeng, Zhou, Qi, Wan, Li, and Wang, 2021, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 71: 697–710, who discussed phylogenetics. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 306–308, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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