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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 ordinarium Taylor, 1940

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

Ambystoma ordinaria Taylor, 1940 "1939", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 26: 422. Holotype: EHT-HMS 16367, by original designation; now FMNH 100055 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 36. Type locality: "small stream at an elevation of about 9,000 feet, four miles west of El Mirador, near Puerto Hondo, Michoacán, Mexico". Incorrect gender of the species name.

Ambystoma ordinarium — Smith and Taylor, 1948, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 194: 13. Correction of gender of the species name.

Ambystoma (Ambystoma) ordinarium — Tihen, 1958, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 3: 3, 35.

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

Common Names

Michoacan Stream Salamander (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 19; Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 9).

Michoacan Stream Siredon (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 27).

Puerto Hondo Stream Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 27).

Distribution

Plateau region of Michoacán east of Lake Patzcuaro and east to the Municipality of Tianguistengo, state of México, Mexico, 2200–2850 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

Reviewed by Anderson, 1975, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 164: 1–2. Highton, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 221, on the basis of the mtDNA data of Shaffer and McKnight, 1996, Evolution, 50, suggested that Ambystoma ordinarium might be two species, and that one of these might be conspecific with Ambystoma dumerilii. Matias-Ferrer and Murillo, 2004, Herpetol. Rev., 35: 182–183, provided the record from the state of México, Mexico. Weisrock, Shaffer, Storz, Storz, and Voss, 2006, Mol. Ecol., 15: 2489–2503, discussed the effects of introgression with Ambystoma dumerilii and that evidence from nuDNA suggests that Ambystoma ordinarium consists of one species with populations that have at various time introgressed other species' mtDNA and that Ambystoma dumerilii is otherwise only distantly related. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 546. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 102–103, provided a brief account, photo, and map. Escalera-Vazquez, Hernández-Guzmán, Soto-Rojas, and Suazo-Ortuño, 2018, Herpetologica, 74: 117–126, discussed the potential range of the species, and Hernández-Guzmán, Escalera-Vazquez, and Suazo-Ortuño, 2019, Herpetol. J., 29: 71–81, discussed the potential range in light of climate change. Hernandez, Raffaëlli, Jelsch, Rosas-Espinoza, Santiago-Pérez, and Nuñez, 2019, Herpetol. Bull., London, 147: 15–21, reported on range, habitat, and conservation. Everson, Gray, Jones, Lawrence, Foley, Sovacool, Kratovil, Hotaling, Hime, Storfer, Parra-Olea, Percino-Daniel, Aguilar-Miguel, O'Neill, Zambrano, Shaffer, and Weisrock, 2021, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 18 (17: e2014719118): 1–10, included this species in their study of molecular evolution and evolution of life histories in the Ambystoma tigrinum complex. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 159–160, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Tighe, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 654: 11, discussed the deposition of paratypes.

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