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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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Alytes almogavarii Arntzen and García-París, 1995

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Alytidae > Genus: Alytes > Species: Alytes almogavarii

Alytes obstetricans almogavarii Arntzen and García-París, 1995, Bijdr. Dierkd., 65: 29. Holotype: MNCN 16663, by original designation. Type locality: "Rasos de Peguera, Berga, Provincia de Barcelona, Spain".

Alytes (Alytes) obstetricans almogavarii — García-París, Monton, and Alonso-Zarazaga, 2004, in García-París et al. (eds.), Fauna Iberica, 24: 595.

Alytes almogavarii — Dufresnes and Martínez-Solano, 2020, Amphibia-Reptilia, 41: 105.

Alytes almogavarii inigoi Dufresnes and Hernandez, 2021, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 59: 2175. Holotype: MNCN 50762, by original designation. Type locality: "near a small reservoir along road Hf-0104AA, 4.5 km from Escuaín, Huesca province, Spain (42.573°N, 0.139°E, 1260 m a.s.l.". Zoobank publication registration: 18747A8C-6B72-4288-98DB-B57AFECA857B

Common Names

Catalonian Midwife Toad (IUCN, 2021).

Distribution

Catalonia, Spain, west to the central Pyrenees and into adjacent France (Aude and Pyrénées-Orientales, and perhaps extending to Ariège). Introduced in the neighborhood of Sanchinarro, municipality of Madrid, central Spain. See comment.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: France, Spain

Comment

Márquez and Bosch, 1995, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 33: 185–192, reported on advertisement call. Gonçalves, Maia-Carvalho, Sousa-Neves, García-París, Sequeira, Ferrand de Almeida, and Martínez-Solano, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 93: 363–379, reported this taxon from France and considered this taxon a race of Alytes obstetricans as had earlier authors. Dufresnes and Martínez-Solano, 2020, Amphibia-Reptilia, 41: 105–112, discussed the mtDNA phylogeny of Alytes and a narrow hybrid zone of nominal Alytes obstetricans almogavarii and Alytes obstetricans pertinax in Catalonia, Spain. See discussion of taxonomy by Dufresnes and Martínez-Solano, 2020, Amphibia-Reptilia, 41: 105–112, and Speybroeck, Beukema, Dufresnes, Fritz, Jablonski, Lymberakis, Martínez-Solano, Razzetti, Vamberger, Vences, Vörös, and Crochet, 2020, Amphibia-Reptilia, 41: 145–146. Dufresnes and Hernandez, 2021, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 59: 2170–2179, reported on molecular relations among populations of Alytes obstetricans and Alytes almogavarii, resulting in the naming of a new subspecies. Laorden-Romero, Caballero-Díaz, Sánchez-Montes, Ambu, Dufresnes, and Martínez-Solano, 2024, Amphibia-Reptilia, 45: 357–363, reported on a genetically-confirmed introduced population of Alytes almogavarii almogavarii in the neighborhood of Sanchinarro (40.50°N, 3.65°W; municipality of Madrid), central Spain.

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