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* = "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 odonnelli (Stuart, 1943)

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

Oedipus odonnelli Stuart, 1943, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 56: 10. Holotype: UMMZ 89096, by original designation. Type locality: "Cafetal just east of the hacienda at Finca Volcán, [Departamento de] Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Altitude, 1200 meters".

Oedipus mexicanus odonnelli — Stuart, 1948, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 69: 19.

Bolitoglossa mexicana odonnelli — Wake and Brame, 1963, Copeia, 1963: 386.

Bolitoglossa odonnelli — Wake and Elias, 1983, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 345: 1-19.

Bolitoglossa (Bolitoglossa) odonnelli — Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 335.

Common Names

O'Donnell's Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 10; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 30; Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 39; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 29).

O'Donnell's Mushroomtongue Salamander (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 653).

Distribution

The cloud forests of the Atlantic drainage of the mountains of eastern Alta Verapaz, east to the Montañas del Mico, Guatemala, 100–1200 m elevation; also in adjacent western Honduras (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guatemala, Honduras

Comment

In the subgenus Bolitoglossa of Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 335, formerly the Bolitoglossa mexicana group. In the Bolitoglossa mexicana group according to García-París, Parra-Olea, and Wake, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 199-214. Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 38, suggested that Bolitoglossa odonnelli might be conspecific with Bolitoglossa mexicana. García-París, Parra-Olea, Brame, and Wake, 2002, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 16: 49, considered this species to be phylogenetically in a polytomy with Bolitoglossa lignicolor, Bolitoglossa alberchi, and a group composed of Bolitoglossa striatula, Bolitoglossa mombachoensis, Bolitoglossa yucatana, and Bolitoglossa mexicana. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 242, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 562. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 40–69, compared this species with others from Central America and provided a map and photograph. See comments by McCranie, 2015, Zootaxa, 3931: 361, regarding the systematics of this species complex in Honduras. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 653–654, provided an account summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Tighe, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 654: 41–42, briefly discussed the current location of paratypes.

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