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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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Plethodon mississippi Highton, 1989

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Plethodontinae > Genus: Plethodon > Species: Plethodon mississippi

Plethodon mississippi Highton in Highton, Maha, and Maxson, 1989, Illinois Biol. Monogr., 57: 65. Holotype: USNM 257388, by original designation. Type locality: "locality 79 [34° 36′ 38″ N, 88° 11′ 56″ W]. . . , Tishomingo State Park, at an elevation of 177 m, Tishomingo County, Mississippi", USA. Synonymy with Plethodon grobmani by Guyer, Goetz, Folt, Joyce, and Hayes, 2019, Copeia, 107: 694–700, and with Plethodon glutinosus by Joyce, Hayes, Potter, and Guyer, 2019, Copeia, 107: 701–707

Plethodon (Plethodon) mississippi — Vieites, Nieto-Roman, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 632, by implication.

Common Names

Mississippi Slimy Salamander (Plethodon mississippi [no longer recognized} Highton in Highton, Maha, and Maxson, 1989, Illinois Biol. Monogr., 57: 65; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 33; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 8; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 27; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 21; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 14; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 30; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 31).

Distribution

Extreme western Kentucky and central Alabama south to the western side of Mobile Bay and southeastern Louisiana, USA.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - Alabama, United States of America - Kentucky, United States of America - Louisiana, United States of America - Mississippi, United States of America - Tennessee

Endemic: United States of America

Comment

In the Plethodon glutinosus group of Highton and Larson, 1979, Syst. Zool., 28: 579–599. Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 355, rejected the distinction of Plethodon grobmani from Plethodon glutinosus on the basis of overall similarity. Guyer, Goetz, Folt, Joyce, and Hayes, 2019, Copeia, 107: 694–700, suggested that no morphological distinction can be drawn between Plethodon grobmani and Plethodon mississippi in Alabama, suggesting the lack of a species boundary. Himes and Beckett, 2013, Southeast. Nat., 12: 851–856, presented morphometric evidence that Plethodon ainsworthi is a junior synonym of nominal Plethodon mississippi. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 399–400, provided brief accounts, photographs, and range maps for nominal Plethodon glutinosus, Plethodon grobmani, and Plethodon mississippi. Joyce, Hayes, Potter, and Guyer, 2019, Copeia, 107: 701–707, took issue with the genetic distance approach employed by Highton, Maha, and Maxson, 1989, Illinois Biol. Monogr., 57: 1–153, which is the basis upon which most of the species within the Plethodon glutinosus complex were named; Joyce et al. presented a molecular analysis that suggested no recognizable historical entities consistent with recognized species boundaries in Alabama and they embraced the pre-Highton et al (1989) taxonomy also embraced by Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 921, provided an account summarizing systematics, morphology, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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