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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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Bolitoglossa colonnea (Dunn, 1924)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Bolitoglossa > Species: Bolitoglossa colonnea

Oedipus colonneus Dunn, 1924, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 12: 96. Holotype: MCZ 9406, by original designation. Type locality: "La Loma, on trail from Chiriquicito to Boquete [Atlantic side], altitude about 2000 feet, Bocas del Toro [now Comarca Ngöbe-Buglé Province, Panama".

Bolitoglossa colonnea — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 219.

Bolitoglossa (Eladinea) colonnea — Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336.

Common Names

La Loma Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 29).

La Loma Mushroomtongue Salamander (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 701).

Distribution

Lowland to to lower montane life zones from Bocas del Toro and Comarca Ngöbe-Buglé Provinces, far western Panamá and Alajuela, Heredia, Limón, and Cartago provinces, Costa Rica; also in the Golfo Dulce and Las Cruces areas of Pacific slope Costa Rica (Puntarenas Province); expected in southeastern Nicaragua.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica, Panama

Likely/Controversially Present: Nicaragua

Comment

In the Bolitoglossa (Eladinea) schizodactyla group of Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336; formerly in the Bolitoglossa striatula group. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 131. Hertz, Lotzkat, and Köhler, 2013, Check List, 9: 83–91, provided range extension in Panama and discussed the range. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 40–69, compared this species with others from Central America, provided a map, photograph, and brief characterization. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 329, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. See comments by McCranie, Sunyer, and Martínez-Fonseca, 2019, Rev. Nicaraguense Biodiversidad, 52: 23. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 701–703, provided an account summarizing systematics (noting a Panamanian likely cryptic species), life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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