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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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Batrachoseps aridus Brame, 1970

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Batrachoseps > Species: Batrachoseps aridus

Batrachoseps aridus Brame, 1970, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 200: 2. Holotype: LACM 56271, by original designation. Type locality: "[South Fork of] Hidden Palm Canyon, a tributary of Deep Canyon, elevation approximately 2800 feet, (10.5 miles by road S of the intersection of state Highways 111 and 74, town of Palm Desert), NW end of Santa Rosa Mountains, from slopes on western side of the Coachella Valley, Riverside County, California", USA. Synonymy by Wake and Jockusch, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 117.

Batrachoseps major aridus — Wake and Jockusch, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 117.

Batrachoseps (Batrachoseps) major aridus — Jockusch and Wake, 2002, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 76: 368.

Batrachoseps aridus — Hansen and Wake, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 666. See comment.

Batrachoseps (Batrachoseps) aridus — Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 586.

English Names

Desert Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps major aridus: Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 5; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 29; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 5; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 189; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 25; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 24).

Distribution

Canyons on the eastern slope of the Santa Rosa Mountains, Riverside Co., California, USA: Hidden Palm Canyon (a tributary to Deep Canyon) at an elevation of 850 m, and Guadalupe Canyon, about 8 km to the south-east. Hidden Palm Canyon.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - California

Endemic: United States of America, United States of America - California

Comment

See comment under Batrachoseps major for discussion of the literature of the systematics of this taxonomic satellite. Batrachoseps aridus is recognized here, following Fouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 97, pending taxonomic resolution of the Batrachoseps major complex of species. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 586, provided and account summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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