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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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Pseudoeurycea lineola (Cope, 1865)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Pseudoeurycea > Species: Pseudoeurycea lineola

Spelerpes lineolus Cope, 1865, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 17: 197. Holotype: Not designated; ANSP 735, according to Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 423, Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 348, and Tighe, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 654: 59. Type locality: "Table Land, Mexico"; probably eastern central Veracruz, Mexico, according to Smith and Taylor, 1948, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 194: 21. Restricted to "Metlac", Veracruz, Mexico by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 349.

Opheobatrachus lineolus — Cope, 1869, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 21: 101.

Spelerpes (Oedipus) infuscatus Peters, 1879, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879: 778. Holotype: ZMB 6556 according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 40. Type locality: "Hayti [= Haiti]; in error according to Dunn, 1923, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 8: 39-40, who also made the synonymy (but see Wake, 1993, Herpetologica, 49: 229-237). Type locality restricted to "Metlac", Veracruz, Mexico by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 349.

Geotriton lineolus — Garman, 1884, Bull. Essex Inst., 16: 39.

Oedipina lineolus — Cope, 1887, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 32: 8.

Oedipina lineola — Cope, 1896, Am. Nat., 30: 1022.

Oedipus lineolus — Fowler and Dunn, 1917, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 69: 21. Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 422.

Lineatriton lineola — Tanner, 1950, Great Basin Nat., 10: 39.

Lineatriton lineolus — Brodie, Mendelson, and Campbell, 2002, Herpetologica, 58: 194.

Pseudoeurycea lineola — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 359.

Pseudoeurycea (Pseudoeurycea) lineola — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77-161.

English Names

Veracruz Worm Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 12; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 32; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 33).

Mexican Slender Salamander (Tanner and Dundee, 2000, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 705: 1–4).

Distribution

Known only from a small area of pine-oak forest in the Sierra Madre Oriental of Veracruz, Mexico, in the vicinity of Cuautlapan, nearby Barranca Metlac, and Xalapa, 200–1350 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

Reviewed by Tanner and Dundee, 2000, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 705: 1–5 (as Lineatriton lineolus prior to the naming of Lineatriton orchimelas and Lineatriton orchileucos). Parra-Olea and Wake, 2001, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 98: 7888–7891, suggested on the basis of molecular evidence that "Lineatriton" lineolus is composed of at least two species, one more closely related to Pseudoeurycea werleri and Pseudoeurycea mystax and another, most closely related to Pseudoeurycea leprosa. See comment under Pseudoeurycea. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Lineatriton lineolus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 577. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 270–271, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. See account by Cázares-Hernández, Molohua Tzitzihua, Méndez Quiahua, Quiahua Colotl, Temoxtle Marquez, Rodriguez Merino, and Apale Pacheco, 2018, Tlaconetes: 1–92, for photos, habitat, life history, and conservation status. Sandoval-Comte, Vázquez-Corzas, and Pineda-Arredondo, 2022, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 5: 105–108, verified the occurrence in the municipality of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, and described habitat. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 606–607, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map and specific localities).

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