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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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Dendrotriton Wake and Elias, 1983

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

8 species

Dendrotriton Wake and Elias, 1983, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 345: 11. Type species: Oedipus bromeliacia Schmidt, 1936, by original designation.

Common Names

Bromeliad Salamanders (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 12; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 30; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 31).

Distribution

Southwestern Chiapas, Mexico, to Honduras.

Comment

Reviewed (as the Chiropterotriton bromeliacia group) by Lynch and Wake, 1975, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 265: 1–45. Phylogenetic relationships in the genus presented by Collins-Rainboth and Buth, 1990, Copeia, 1990: 955–960, were (xolocalcae (rabbi (cuchumatanus (bromeliacia, megarhinus)))). Wilkinson, 1997, Herpetol. J., 7: 55–65, disputed these results as weakly supported. In the tribe Bolitoglossini of Vieites, Nieto-Roman, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633. Rovito, Wake, Papenfuss, Parra-Olea, Muñoz-Alonso, and Vásquez-Almazán, 2012, J. Biogeograph., 39: 1251–1265, reported on molecular phylogenetics and biogeography. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 73–75, provided a brief summary of natural history, a key to the species of Central America, and range maps and photographs of the species. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 362–364, provided brief accounts for the species, photographs, and range map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 837–841, provided species accounts summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

Contained taxa (8 sp.):

Dendrotriton bromeliacius (Schmidt, 1936)

Dendrotriton chujorum Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo, and Brodie, 2010

Dendrotriton cuchumatanus (Lynch and Wake, 1975)

Dendrotriton kekchiorum Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo, and Brodie, 2010

Dendrotriton megarhinus (Rabb, 1960)

Dendrotriton rabbi (Lynch and Wake, 1975)

Dendrotriton sanctibarbarus (McCranie and Wilson, 1997)

Dendrotriton xolocalcae (Taylor, 1941)

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