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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 muletensis (Sanchíz and Adrover, 1979)

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

Baleaphryne muletensis Sanchíz and Adrover, 1979 "1977", Doñana, Acta Vert., 4: 6. Holotype: "Museo Arqueologica de Deya (Mallorca) (MAD) ... Ilion izquierdo". No registration number given. Type locality: "Cueva Muleta, sector X, nivel 200–300 cm", Mallorca, Spain.

Baleaphryne talaioticus Sanchíz and Alcover, 1982, Butll. Inst. Catalana Hist. Nat., Sec. Geol. 3, 48: 99–105. Holotype: Museu de Menorca (uncatalogued), right humerus [Holocene fossil]. Type locality: "Rafal Rubi, Menorca", Balearic Islands, Spain [Holocene]. Synonymy by Sanchíz, 1998, Handb. Palaeoherpetol., 4: 114.

Alytes muletensis — Clarke, 1984, in Alcover (ed.), Hist. Bioògica Ferreret: 45; Maxson and Szymura, 1985 "1984", Amphibia-Reptilia, 5: 248.

Alytes (Baleaphryne) muletensis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 12.

Alytes (Alytes) muletensis — García-París, Monton, and Alonso-Zarazaga, 2004, in García-París et al. (eds.), Fauna Iberica, 24: 594.

English Names

Majorca Midwife Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51).

Majorcan Midwife Toad (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 50; Stumpel-Rienks, 1992, Ergänzungsband Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., Trivialnamen der Herpetofauna Eur.: 42; Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 67).

Mallorcan Midwife Toad (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 237).

Distribution

Serra Tramuntana of northern Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, 10–850 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Spain

Endemic: Spain

Comment

Described as a fossil species from the Middle and Upper Pleistocene and subsequently found to be extant. See Mayol and Alcover, 1981, Amphibia-Reptilia, 1: 343–345, for data on living population. See account by Arntzen and García-París, 1995, Bijdr. Dierkd., 65: 28. Nöllert and Nöllert, 1992, Die Amph. Eur.: 246–249, provided a brief account and polygon map. Crespo, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 92–93, discussed relevant literature and distribution. Barbadillo-Escrivá, 1987, Guia INCAFO Anf. Rept. Peninsula Iberica: 138–141, provided an account. Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 67–68, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Kraaijeveld-Smith, Beebee, Griffiths, Moore, and Schley, 2005, Mol. Ecol., 14: 3307–3315, reported on genetic diversity and gene flow among known populations. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 237. Rivera, Escoriza, Maluquer-Margalef, Arribas, and Carranza, 2011, Amf. Rept. Catalunya: 60–62, provided a brief account for northeastern Spain and adjacent France. Speybroeck, Beukema, Bok, and Van Der Voort, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Brit. Eur.: 125–126, provided a brief account and distribution map. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 33, for brief summary of range, identifying morphology, and biology as well as a photograph. Lukas, 2021, Salamandra, 57: 378–388, reported on larval cranial anatomy.

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