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* = "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
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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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Rhyacotriton olympicus (Gaige, 1917)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Rhyacotritonidae > Genus: Rhyacotriton > Species: Rhyacotriton olympicus

Ranodon olympicus Gaige, 1917, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 40: 2. Holotype: UMMZ 48607, by original designation; this was corrected to UMMZ 48608 by Peters, 1952, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 539: 9; Kluge, 1983, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 166: 21, disagreed with Peters and reaffirmed that UMMZ 48607 is the holotype. Type locality: "Lake Cushman, [Olympic Mountains,] Washington", USA.

Rhyacotriton olympicus — Dunn, 1920, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 7: 56.

Rhyacotriton olympicus olympicus — Stebbins and Lowe, 1951, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 50: 465.

English Names

Mountain Salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 17),

Olympic Salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus: Slevin, 1928, Occas. Pap. California Acad. Sci., 16: 39; Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 178; Stebbins, 1951, Amph. W. North Am.: 55; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 36; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 9),

Olympic Torrent Salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus: Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 9; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 30; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 162; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 15; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 31; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 33).

Olympic Mountain Salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus olympicus [no longer recognized]: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 17),

Northern Olympic Salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus olympicus [no longer recognized]: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 37; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 9; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 34).

Distribution

Cold mountain streams in conifer forest on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington in Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, and Mason counties, USA; an isolated population in Thurston county, Washington, USA.

Comment

Literature referring to this binominal previous to the revision of Good and Wake, 1992, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 126: 1–91, may refer to any of the several species. Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 439–440, provided an account. Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 162, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Hayes and Jones, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 880–882, provided a detailed account that summarized the biology and conservation literature.. 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: 599. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 224, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Altig and McDiarmid, 2015, Handb. Larval Amph. US and Canada: 131–132, provided an account of larval morphology and biology. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 492–493, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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