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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 morio (Cope, 1869)

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

Oedipus morio Cope, 1869, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 21: 103. Holotype: USNM 6888; now lost according to Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 387, and Tighe, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 654: 41. UTA-A 34090 designated neotype by Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo, and Brodie, 2010, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 200: 2. Type locality: "Mountains of Guatemala". Neotype from "3.7 km S Santa María Visitación, Sololá, Guatemala at 2000–2200 (14.723073° N, 91.330252° W)".

Geotriton morio — Smith, 1877, Tailed Amph.: 74.

Spelerpes morio — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 70. Brocchi, 1883, Miss. Scient. Mex. Amer. Centr., Rech. Zool., 3(2, livr. 3): 113.

Spelerpes Bocourti Brocchi, 1883, Miss. Scient. Mex. Amer. Centr., Rech. Zool., 3(2, livr. 3): 111. Holotype: Presumably originally MNHNP, but not noted in type lists so presumably now lost; not mentioned by Thireau, 1986, Cat. Types Urodeles Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., Rev. Crit.. Type locality: "Tonicapam [= Totonicapám, Department of Totonicapám] (Guatemala)". Considered a junior synonym of Bolitoglossa robusta by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 34: 727, presumably based on misidentified material. Synonymy by Schmidt, 1936, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 49: 43-50, and Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo, and Brodie, 2010, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 200: 4.

? Magnadigita morio — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 218.

Bolitoglossa morio — Wake and Brame, 1963, Copeia, 1963: 386.

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

Common Names

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

Distribution

Intermediate elevations (1400 to over 2500 m) in pine-oak and humid broadleaf forest bordering on cloud forest on the Guatemalan Plateau.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guatemala

Endemic: Guatemala

Comment

In the Bolitoglossa (Magnadigita) dunni group of Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 336; formerly in the Bolitoglossa helmrichi group of Wake and Lynch, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 25: 1-65. See Elias, 1984, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 348: 10-11. Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo, and Brodie, 2010, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 200: 2-4, redelimited the species, including it in their Bolitoglossa (Magnadigita) morio group, and provided an account. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 40–69, compared this species with others from Central America and provided a map and photograph. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 349, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 764–765, provided an account summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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