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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
	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"
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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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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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Cryptotriton García-París and Wake, 2000

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Cryptotriton

7 species

Cryptotriton García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 58. Type species: Oedipus nasalis Dunn, 1924, by original designation.

Common Names

Hidden Salamanders (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 30).

Distribution

Mountains of northern Oaxaca, Mexico, through northern Chiapas, Mexico, the highlands of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, and the Sierra de las Minas, eastern Guatemala, to the Cordillera del Merendón and associated uplands in extreme northeastern Honduras.

Comment

See García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 42-70, for discussion of systematic history of this group; all species were formerly included in Nototriton. See García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 42-70, for discussion of phylogenetics. In the tribe Bolitoglossini of Vieites, Nieto-Roman, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 70–71, provided a brief summary of natural history, a key to the species of Central America, and range maps and photographs of the species. McCranie and Rovito, 2014, Zootaxa, 3795: 61-70, provided revisionary comments and provided a map and phylogenetic tree for the genus. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 360–361, provided brief accounts for the species, photographs, and range map. Rovito, Vázquez-Almazán, Papenfuss, Parra-Olea, and Wake, 2015, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 175: 150–166, reported on biogeography and evolution within the genus. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 832–837, provided species accounts summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

Contained taxa (7 sp.):

Cryptotriton alvarezdeltoroi (Papenfuss and Wake, 1987)

Cryptotriton monzoni (Campbell and Smith, 1998)

Cryptotriton nasalis (Dunn, 1924)

Cryptotriton necopinus McCranie and Rovito, 2014

Cryptotriton sierraminensis Vásquez-Almazán, Rovito, Good, and Wake, 2009

Cryptotriton veraepacis (Lynch and Wake, 1978)

Cryptotriton xucaneborum Rovito, Vázquez-Almazán, Papenfuss, Parra-Olea, and Wake, 2015

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