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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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Onychodactylus koreanus Min, Poyarkov, and Vieites, 2012

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Hynobiidae > Subfamily: Onychodactylinae > Genus: Onychodactylus > Species: Onychodactylus koreanus

Onychodactylus koreanus Min, Poyarkov, and Vieites In Poyarkov, Che, Min, Kuro-o, Yan, Li, Iizuka, and Vieites, 2012, Zootaxa, 3465: 50. Holotype: EWNJM 80316, by original designation. Type locality: "SinGi-Myeon environs, Samcheok-shi, Gangwon-do, Korea, 400 m a.s.l.; geographic coordinates: 37° 20′ N; 129° 03′ E."

Onychodactylus (Onychodactylus) koreanus — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77-161.

English Names

Korean Clawed Salamander (original publication).

Gorichire Salamander (Yang, Kim, Min, and Suh, 2001, Monogr. Korean Amph.: 46 [as Onychodactylus fischeri]).

Distribution

Republic of Korea in the Baekdudaegan and Taebaeksanmaek Mountains (reported from provinces Gangwon-do, Gyeonggi-do; Chungcheongbuk-do; Chungcheongnam-do; Gyeongsangbuk-do; Gyeongsangnam-do; Jeollabuk-do; Jeollanam-do); extending into southwestern and southeastern P.D.R. Korea.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Korea, Democratic People's Republic (North), Korea, Republic of (South)

Comment

In the Onychodactylus koreanus complex, according to the original publication. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 50, provided a brief account, photo, and range map. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 113–116, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Borzée, Litvinchuk, Ri, Andersen, Nam, Jon, Man, Choe, Kwon, Othman, Messenger, Bae, Shin, Kim, Maslova, Luedtke, Hobin, Moores, Seliger, Glenk, and Jang, 2021, Animals, 11 (2057): 1–37, provided a modeled distribution that shows the species extending into P.D.R. Korea. Shin, Min, and Borzée, 2021, Ecol. Evol., 11: 14669–14688, provided a dot map, including new records from southwestern and southeastern P.D.R. Korea, distribution modeling that predicts range shifts and drastic decrease of suitable habitats in response to climate change in the relatively near future. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 39–40, provided a detailed account, covering systematics, life history, and distribution (including a polygon map). Andersen, Chuang, Choe, Kim, Kwon, Jang, and Borzée, 2022, Zool. Stud., Taipei, 61(25): 1–10, reported on the elevational range (44–1266 m) in Rep. Korea.

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