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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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Andrias sligoi (Boulenger, 1924)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Cryptobranchidae > Genus: Andrias > Species: Andrias sligoi

Megalobatrachus sligoi Boulenger, 1924, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1924: 173. Holotype: Deposition not stated; BMNH 1945.11.7.1. (formerly II.1.1.1.a) according to Brame and Gorham, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 25, and museum records. Type locality: uncertain; presumed in the original to have come from the Chinese mainland near Hong Kong.

Andrias sligoi — Turvey, Marr, Barnes, Brace, Tapley, Murphy, Zhao, and Cunningham, 2019, Ecol. Evol., 9: 10080.

Common Names

South China Giant Salamander (Turvey, Marr, Barnes, Brace, Tapley, Murphy, Zhao, and Cunningham, 2019, Ecol. Evol., 9: 10070).

华南大鲵 (South China Giant Salamander): (Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: Appendix 1, 2).

Distribution

Known from the Pearl/Nanling River Basin of eastern Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guangdong, China, although the details of the range are currently poorly understood. Introduced into the Kamogawa River drainage of southeastern Honshu, Japan.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Introduced: Japan

Comment

Liang, Chen, Wang, Zhang, Wang, He, Wu, He, Xie, Li, Merilä, and Wei, 2019, Ecol. Evol., 9: 3879–3890, reported on mtDNA phylogeography of Andrias davidianus, finding 7 divergent geographically coherent clades, of which one of these, with the name Andrias sligoi applied, was removed from the synonymy of Andrias davidianus by Turvey, Marr, Barnes, Brace, Tapley, Murphy, Zhao, and Cunningham, 2019, Ecol. Evol., 9: 10070, where it had been placed by Thorn, 1968, Salamand. Eur. Asie Afr. Nord: 110. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 15, provided a brief account (as Andrias davidianus) for Guangdong, China, and photograph. See comment under Andrias davidianus for other relevant literature. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 25-26, provided a detailed account of this species, with photographs, range map, and habitat description. Nishikawa, Matsui, Yoshikawa, Tominaga, Eto, Fukuyama, Fukutani, Matsubara, Hattori, Iwato, Sato, Shimizu, Onuma, and Hara, 2024, Sci. Rep. (Nature, London), 14(24: 2575): 1–24, reported introduced populations and their hybrids (genetically confirmed) in Kamogawa River drainage of Japan.

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