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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 uniformis Keferstein, 1868

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

Oedipina uniformis Keferstein, 1868, Arch. Naturgesch., 34: 299. Holotype: Originally in ZIUG, now ZFMK 27833, according to Böhme and Bischoff, 1984, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 19: 175. Type locality: "Costarica". Also described as new by Keferstein, 1868, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 1868: 331.

Ophiobatrachus vermicularis Gray, 1868, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 4, 2: 298. Holotype: BMNH 1946.9.6.19 (formerly 1868.8.17.5.), according to Brame and Gorham, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 285, and museum records. Type locality: "Costa Rica". Published Oct., 1868, according to Günther, 1869, Zool. Rec., 5: 130-131. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 75.

Opheobatrachus vermicularis — Cope, 1869, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 21: 102.

Spelerpes uniformis — Strauch, 1870, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, Ser. 7, 16 (4): 84.

Spelerpes vermicularis — Smith, 1877, Tailed Amph.: 94.

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

Oedipina uniformis — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 226.

Oedipina syndactyla Taylor, 1948, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 61: 179. Holotype: KU 29962 (formerly KU 843), by original designation and Brame and Gorham, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 285. Type locality: "at an elevation of about 7,000 feet, 4 miles west (by road) from Isla Bonita (American Cinchona Plantation), Volcán Poas (Eastern Caribbean drainage), Costa Rica". Corrected to "near Poasito, Cantón de Poas, Provincia de Alajuela; 2100 m", Costa Rica, by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 102. Synonymy by Brame, 1968, J. Herpetol., 2: 34.

Oedipina vermicularis — Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 34: 761.

Oedipina bonitaensis Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 34: 762. Holotype: KU 29972, by original designation. Type locality: "approximately 6 mi. (by road) west of Isla Bonita (American Cinchona Plantation), southern slope of Volcán Poás, [Provincia de Alajuela,] Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 76, commented on the type locality and restated it as "Altura, Cantón de Poás, Provincia de Alajuela; 2300 m", Costa Rica. Synonymy by Brame, 1968, J. Herpetol., 2: 34.

Oedipina longissima Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 34: 771. Holotype: KU 29963, by original designation. Type locality: "Cervantes, [Cantón de Alvarado, Provincia de Cartago,] Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 85, commented on the type locality. Synonymy by Brame, 1968, J. Herpetol., 2: 34.

Oedipina longicauda Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 34: 752. Substitute name for Oedipina longissima in the same publication.

Oedipina inusitata Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 34: 777. Holotype: KU 29964, by original designation. Type locality: "three miles northeast of Santa Cruz, on the southern face of Volcán Turrialba, [Cantón de Turrialba, Provincia de Cartago,] Costa Rica, at an elevation of approximately 6500 ft." Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 107, commented on the type locality. Synonymy by Brame, 1968, J. Herpetol., 2: 34.

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

Common Names

Cienega Colorado Worm Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 32).

Distribution

Mountains and lowlands of central Costa Rica (Volcan Tenorio, Meseta Central) to the Panama border, 750–2150 m elevation; presumably to be found in western Panama.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica

Likely/Controversially Present: Panama

Endemic: Costa Rica

Comment

See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 156-157. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 582. 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.: 381–382, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 868–869, provided an account summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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