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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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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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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 quadra McCranie, Vieites, and Wake, 2008

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

Oedipina (Oeditriton) quadra McCranie, Vieites, and Wake, 2008, Zootaxa, 1930: 6. Holotype: MVZ 257761, by original designation. Type locality: "Urus Tingni Kiamp, 14°55′N, 84°41′W, tributary of upper portion of Río Warunta, 160 m above sea level (a.s.l.), Dept. Gracias A Dios, Honduras".

Thornella quadra — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 284.

Common Names

Honduran Lowland Worm Salamander (original publication).

La Ceiba Worm Salamander (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 859).

Distribution

Known distribution of this species in lowland rainforest from just south of La Ceiba, Atlántida, eastward and southeastward to the Río Coco drainage system of northeastern Honduras, 7 to 1250 m elevation; expected in suitable habitat in extreme northeastern Nicaragua on that side of the Río Coco.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Honduras

Likely/Controversially Present: Nicaragua

Endemic: Honduras

Comment

The sister taxon of Oedipina kasios according to the original publication. McCranie, Gutsche, Köhler, and Valdés-Orellana, 2011, Salamandra, 47: 169–172, provided a range extension and a tree of populations. 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.: 377, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. McCranie, Sunyer, and Martínez-Fonseca, 2019, Rev. Nicaraguense Biodiversidad, 52: 25, suggeste the species would be found in extreme northeastern Nicaragua. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 859–861, provided an account summarizing systematics, life history, and distribution (including a polygon map). Tighe, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 654: 38, briefly discussed the current location of paratypes

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