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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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Ranodon sibiricus Kessler, 1866

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Hynobiidae > Subfamily: Hynobiinae > Genus: Ranodon > Species: Ranodon sibiricus

Ranodon sibiricus Kessler, 1866, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, 39: 130. Syntypes: Including ZMM A-34 (one of two specimens) which was designated lectotype by Dunayev and Orlova, 1994, Russ. J. Herpetol., 1: 60. See discussion of types by Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 19. Type locality: "Umgegend von Semipalatinsk" (= neighborhood of Semipalatinsk), Russia; in error, by being outside of known distribution accoding to Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 118, and Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 19. Type locality discussed by Dunayev and Orlova, 1994, Russ. J. Herpetol., 1: 60, who corrected it to "environs of Kuldzha (China)"; this correction rejected by Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 20.

Triton (Ranodon) sibiricus — Günther, 1867, Zool. Rec., 3: 130.

Ranodon Kessleri Ballion, 1868, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, 41: 140. Holotype: Not stated; see comments by Bauer, Good, and Günther, 1993, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 69: 301. NHMW 22908 considered holotype by Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 11, Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 15, and Gemel, Gassner, and Schweiger, 2019, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, Ser. B, 121: 42. Type locality: "Umgegend von Kapal (45° 8′ nördl. Br. 96° 47′ östt. L.)", Kazakhstan. Synonymy by Strauch, 1870, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, Ser. 7, 16 (4): 66; Günther, 1871, Zool. Rec., 7: 80; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 36.

Ranidens sibiricus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 36.

Ranodon kozhevnikovi Nikolskii, 1918, Fauna Rossii, Zemnovodnye: 251. Holotype: ZMM, by original designation; ZMM A-713, according to Dunayev and Orlova, 1994, Russ. J. Herpetol., 1: 61. Type locality: "Tashkent", Uzbekistan (considered unlikely by Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 103, and Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 22). Synonymy by Bobrinskii, 1929, Trudy Nauchno Issledovetel'skogo Institua Zoologii, 3: 19-20; Terentjev and Chernov, 1936, Brief Guide Amph. Rept. USSR: XXX; Thorn, 1968, Salamand. Eur. Asie Afr. Nord: 92. Specimen and its provenance discussed by Dunayev and Orlova, 1994, Russ. J. Herpetol., 1: 61.

Ranodon sibericus — Gee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 18. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

English Names

Siberian Salamander (Steward, 1969, Tailed Amph. Eur.: 39; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 21; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28).

Semirechensk Salamander (Kuzmin, Kubykin, Thiesmeier, and Greven, 1998, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 3: 1; Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 116; Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 18; Halliday and Adler, 2002, New Encyclop. Rept. Amph.: 56).

Central Asian Salamander (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 34).

Distribution

Small mountain creeks with rapids streams and falls, at altitude of 15000–2500 m, in coniferous forests of the high mountains (Jungarian Ala Tau) of northwestern Xinjiang, China, and southeastern Kazakhstan, 2100–3200 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Kazakhstan

Comment

See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 53; Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 116-124; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 34; Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 126-131; Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 17-101, Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 56-57; and Kuzmin, 2013, Amph. Former Soviet Union, Ed. 2: 56–61. Distribution discussed in detail by Kuzmin, Kubykin, Thiesmeier, and Greven, 1998, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 3: 1-20. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 213–218, provided an account for China. 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: 553. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 62–63, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 68–69, provided an account, photographs, and map for China. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 51–53, provided a brief account, photo, and range map. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 139–141, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 236–238, provided an account, photographs, and range map for China. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 42–44, provided a detailed account, covering systematics, life history, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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