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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 dofleini (Werner, 1903)

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

Spelerpes Dofleini Werner, 1903, Abh. Math. Physik. Cl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., 22: 352. Type(s): ZSM 1288/0, lost according to Stuart, 1963, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 122: 17, and Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 156. MVZ 161627 designated neotype by McCranie, Wake, and Wilson, 1996, Caribb. J. Sci., 32: 395-398. Type locality: "Guatemala"; presumably the Alta Verapaz, according to Stuart, 1943, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 56: 17. Neotype is from "Finca Volcán, 25 km (by rd.) NW Senahú, Depto. Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, elevation 875 m".

Oedipus schmidti Dunn, 1924, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 12: 96. Holotype: FMNH 4538, by original designation. Type locality: "mountains west of San Pedro, Departamento de Cortes, Honduras, at 2000 feet, on trail". Synonymy by McCranie, Wake, and Wilson, 1996, Caribb. J. Sci., 32: 395.

Oedipus schmidti — Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 361.

Oedipus dofleini — Stuart, 1943, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 56: 17.

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

Bolitoglossa doffleini — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 219. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Bolitoglossa dofleini — Stuart, 1963, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 122: 17.

Bolitoglossa (Pachymandra) dofleini — Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 337.

Common Names

Alta Verapaz Salamander (Bolitoglossa dofleini: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 29).

Doflein's Salamander (Bolitoglossa dofleini: Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 40; Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 37).

Schmidt's Mushroomtongue Salamander (Bolitoglossa schmidti: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 30).

Doflein's Mushroomtongue Salamander (Bolitoglossa dofleini: Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 52).

Palm Salamander (Bolitlgossa dofleini: Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 23).

Distribution

Low and moderate elevations of the Caribbean versant from extreme northern Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, and Cayo District, Belize, to north-central Honduras, 50–1550 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras

Comment

The sole member of the Bolitoglossa (Pachymandra) dofleini group of Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 337. See account and discussion by McCranie, Wake, and Wilson, 1996, Caribb. J. Sci., 32: 395-398 Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 40-41, Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 37, Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 52-53, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 113-115. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 36, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 638. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 359, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 788–791, provided an account summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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