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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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Oedipina pacificensis Taylor, 1952

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Oedipina > Species: Oedipina pacificensis

Haptoglossa pressicauda Cope, 1893, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 31: 333. Holotype: "No. 293 of the collection [Museo Nacional of Costa Rica]", presumably now lost or destroyed. Type locality: "Palma" (= Palmar Norte, Cantón de Osa, Provincia de Puntarenas), Costa Rica, "near the Golfo Dulce, on the Pacific slope." Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 98, commented on the type locality. Synonymy with Oedipina uniformis by Brame, 1968, J. Herpetol., 2: 34. García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 60, suggested that either this name is possibly a senior synonym of Oedipina pacificensis or, more likely in their view, not a member of the genus. See also discussion by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 154.

Oedipina pacificensis Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 34: 775. Holotype: KU 29965, by original designation. Type locality: "two miles east of San Isidro [de] El General, C[osta]. R[ica]., at an elevation of approximately 2118 feet", Cantón de Pérez Zeledón, Provincia de San José, Costa Rica. Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 104, commented on the type locality.

Oedipina (Oedipina) pacificensis — García-París and Wake, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 60.

English Names

Pacific Worm Salamander (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 869).

Distribution

Humid lowlands and premontane slopes of southwestern Costa Rica and adjacent southwestern Panama, 5–730 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica, Panama

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Oedipina uniformis by Good and Wake, 1997, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 45: 1185-1208., where it had been placed by Brame, 1968, J. Herpetol., 2: 34. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 154. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 82–90, compared this species with others from Central America and provided a map and photograph. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 382, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 869–870, provided an account summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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