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* = "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
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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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Nototriton picadoi (Stejneger, 1911)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Nototriton > Species: Nototriton picadoi

Spelerpes picadoi Stejneger, 1911, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 41: 285. Holotype: USNM 48280, by original designation. Type locality: "La Estrella, southeast of Cartago, [Cartago Province,] Costa Rica".

Oedipus picadoi — Dunn, 1924, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 12: 99.

Chiropterotriton picadoi — Taylor, 1949, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 279; Wake and Lynch, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 25: 59.

? Pseudoeurycea picadoi — Taylor, 1949, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 279.

Nototriton picadoi — Wake and Elias, 1983, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 345: 11.

Nototriton major Good and Wake, 1993, Herpetol. Monogr., 7: 137. Holotype: UCR 6756, by original designation. Type locality: "Quebrada Platanillo, approximately 6 km east of Moravia de Chirripó, Prov. Cartago, Costa Rica, . . . . Elevation ca. 1200 m". Synonymy by Kubicki, Reyes, and Arias, 2022, Zootaxa, 5194: 489.

Nototriton matama Boza-Oviedo, Rovito, Chaves, García-Rodríguez, Artavia, Bolaños, and Wake, 2012, Zootaxa, 3309: 48. Holotype: UCR 20215, by original designation. Type locality: "from the southeastern end of the Fila Matama (coordinates: 9.8071° N, 83.1683° W) at an elevation of 1300 m", Provincia de Limón, Costa Rica. Synonymy by Kubicki, Reyes, and Arias, 2022, Zootaxa, 5194: 489.

Nototriton (Nototriton) matama — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 141.

Nototriton (Nototriton) picadoi — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 141.

English Names

La Estrella Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 32).

Picado's Moss Salamander (Kubicki, Reyes, and Arias, 2022, Zootaxa, 5194: 489).

Matama Moss Salamander (Nototriton matama: Boza-Oviedo, Rovito, Chaves, García-Rodríguez, Artavia, Bolaños, and Wake, 2012, Zootaxa, 3309: 48, no longer recognized).

Quebrada Platanillo Moss Salamander (Nototriton major: Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 879).

La Estrella Moss Salamander (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 876).

Distribution

Caribbean slopes of the Cordillera Volcánica Central, specifically along the eastern flank of the Turrialba Volcano into the northern and eastern sections of the Cordillera de Talamanca, Limon amd Cartago Provinces, Costa Rica, 900–2200 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica

Endemic: Costa Rica

Comment

See comment under Nototriton abscondens and account by Good and Wake, 1993, Herpetol. Monogr., 7: 140–141. See accounts by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 143–144 (as Nototriton major and Nototriton picadoi). See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 639. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 76–80, compared this species (as nominal Nototriton picadoi, Nototriton major, and Nototriton matama) with others from Central America and provided maps and photographs. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 365–367, provided brief accounts, photographs, and range maps for nominal Nototriton matama, Nototriton major, and Nototriton picadoi. Comparative morphology, molecular markers, and a dot map provided by Kubicki, Reyes, and Arias, 2022, Zootaxa, 5194: 451–496, as part of their revision of the genus. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 876–877–879, provided accounts (as Nototriton picadoi, Nototriton matama, and Nototriton major) summarizing morphology, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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