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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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Ambystoma altamirani Dugès, 1895

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Ambystomatidae > Genus: Ambystoma > Species: Ambystoma altamirani

Amblystoma altamirani Dugès, 1895, Descr. Axolotl Montagnes de las Cruces: 5. Syntypes: MDUG (6 specimens), according to Smith and Necker, 1943, An. Esc. Nac. Cienc. Biol., México, 3: 183; possibly including some in the BMNH as well as MNHNP 1897.146, 1897.400, and 1901.123, according to Thireau, 1986, Cat. Types Urodeles Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., Rev. Crit.: 11-13, who discussed the types and type designation. Dimensions of only one specimen are specified in the original (DRF), presumably of the animal figured. Flores-Villela, Ríos-Muñoz, Magaña-Cota, and Quezadas-Tapia, 2016, Zootaxa, 4092: 36, discussed the syntypic series and noted 8 specimens in the MDUG that should be considered syntypes (HE 314, 316–19, 322, and 964–65). Type locality: "'Manantiale de los Ajolotes', dans la 'Serranía de las Cruces' appartenant la Vallée de México", Distrito Federal, Mexico.

Ambystoma altamirani — Strand, 1928, Arch. Naturgesch., Abt. A,, 92: 55, by implication; Fowler and Dunn, 1917, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 69: 11.

Rhyacosiredon altamirani — Dunn, 1928, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 10: 85. Taylor, 1939 "1938", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 25: 262.

Ambystoma (Rhyacosiredon) altamirani — Lafrentz, 1930, Abh. Ber. Mus. Nat. Heimatkd. Magdeburg, 6: 115. Wolterstorff, 1930, Abh. Ber. Mus. Nat. Heimatkd. Magdeburg, 6: 142-144.

Rhyacosiredon zempoalaensis Taylor and Smith, 1945, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 95: 527. Holotype: USNM 116617, by original designation. Type locality: "at the Lakes of Zempoala, Morelos, México, in a nearly dry lake bed, elevation about 10,000 feet". Synonymy by Reilly and Brandon, 1994, Copeia, 1994: 656-662.

Ambystoma altamiranoi — Brandon, 1989, in Armstrong and Malacinski (eds.), Developmental Biol. Axolotl: 18. Smith and Smith, 1993, Synops. Herpetofauna Mex., 7: 11. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Ambystoma zempoalaense — Brandon, 1989, in Armstrong and Malacinski (eds.), Developmental Biol. Axolotl: 18.

Ambystoma altamirani — Reilly and Brandon, 1994, Copeia, 1994: 656-662.

Ambystoma altamiranoi — Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 27. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Ambystoma (Heterotriton) altamirani — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77-161.

English Names

Mountain Stream Siredon (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 8; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 27; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 26).

Lake Zempoala Siredon (Ambystoma zempoalaense [no longer recognized]: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 9; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 28).

Distribution

High mountains south and west of the Valley of Mexico in the central state of México, southern Distrito Federal, and northwestern Morelos, Mexico, 2700-3200 m elevation.

Comment

Uribe-Peña, Ramírez-Bautista, and Casas-Andreu, 1999, Cuad. Inst. Biol., UNAM, 32: 15-22, provided accounts as Ambystoma altamiranoi and Ambystoma zempoalense. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 89, provided a brief account, figure, and map. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 543. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 101, provided a brief account, photo, and map. : 237–248, reported on genetic diversity. Monroy-Vilchis, Heredia-Bobadilla, Zarco-González, Ávila-Akerberg, and Sunny, 2919, Herpetozoa, Wien, 32: 237–248, reported on genetic variation.

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