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* = "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
	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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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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Pachyhynobius shangchengensis Fei, Qu, and Wu, 1983

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Hynobiidae > Subfamily: Hynobiinae > Genus: Pachyhynobius > Species: Pachyhynobius shangchengensis

Pachyhynobius shangchengensis Fei, Qu, and Wu, 1983, Amph. Res., Kunming, 1: 1. Holotype: XNC 00227, by original designation. Type locality: "Shangcheng, Henan, 780 m", China.

Xenobius melanonychus Zhang and Hu, 1985, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 4 (1): 36. Holotype: CIB 840010, by original designation. Type locality: "Baimazhai Tree Farm, Jinzhai County, Anhui [Province], altitude 950 m.", China. Provisional synonymy by Zhao, Hu, Jiang, and Yang, 1988, Studies on Chinese Salamanders: 63; Zhao, 1990, in Zhao (ed.), From Water onto Land: 220.

Sinobius melanonychus — Dubois, 1987, Alytes, 6: 10.

Hynobius yunanicus Chen, Qu, and Niu, 2001, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 26: 383, 387. Holotype: HENNU 99082403, by original designation. (Holotype figured by Fei and Ye, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 31.) Type locality: "brook in mountain, Shangcheng County, Henan Province", China. Synonymy by Xiong, Qin, Zeng, Zhao, and Qing, 2007, J. Herpetol., 41: 664–671, and Nishikawa, Jiang, Matsui, Mo, Chen, Kim, Tominaga, and Yoshikawa, 2010, Zootaxa, 2426: 65.

Common Names

商城肥鲵 (Shangcheng Chubby Salamander) (Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 1).

Shangcheng Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28).

Shangcheng Stout Salamander (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 30).

Distribution

High-elevation areas in the Dabie Mountains (Dabieshan) area of southeastern Henan, southeastern Hubei, and western Anhui provinces, China, 380–1100 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 49–50, provided an account, photographs, and map. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 55–56 , provided a brief account, photo, and map. See account, photograph, and map by Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 199–202. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 123–124, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. See comments on Hynobius yunanicus by Zhao, Wang, Wang, Liu, and Lu, 2015, J. Henan Normal Univ. (Nat. Sci.), 46: 705–711. Pan, Wang, Orozco-terWengel, Hu, Wu, Qian, Sun, Shi, Yan, Wu, and Zhang, 2019, BMC Evol. Biol., 2019 (19:1): 1–15, reported on the genetic distinctiveness of allopatric sky-island populations in the Dabie Mountains region of China. Pan, Sun, Lai, Orozco-terWengel, Yan, Wu, Wang, Zhu, Wu, and Zhang, 2019, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 137: 138–145, reported on mitogenome evolution across the range and suggested on the basis of this evidence that the nominal species is composed of at least five independent lineages, of which Xenobius melanonychus Zhang and Hu, 1985, is presumably available for one of these species (DRF). Xiong, Zhang, Liu, Pan, and Gou, 2019, PeerJ, 7 (e: 6408): 1–13, reported on sexual dimorphism. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 48–51, provided a detailed account, covering systematics, life history, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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