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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 variegatus Stebbins and Lowe, 1951

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

Rhyacotriton olympicus variegatus Stebbins and Lowe, 1951, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 50: 471. Holotype: MVZ 45868, by original designation. Type locality: "1.3 miles west of Burnt Ranch Post Office, Trinity County, California", USA.

Rhyacotriton variegatus — Good and Wake, 1992, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 126: 18.

Common Names

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

Southern Olympic Salamander (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).

Southern Torrent Salamander (Good and Wake, 1992, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 126: 18; 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).

Distribution

Coast ranges from southern Mendocino County, California, north to the Little Nestucca River and the Grande Ronde Valley in Polk, Tillamook, and Yamhill counties, Oregon; western slope of the Cascade Mountains in the vicinity of Steamboat, Douglas County, Oregon, USA.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - California, United States of America - Oregon

Endemic: United States of America

Comment

Highton, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 228, suggested that four species masquerade under this name; this suggestion was argued against by Wake and Jockusch, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 96. See discussion of phylogeography and range by Wagner, Miller, and Haig, 2006, Herpetologica, 62: 63–70, who provided additional evidence of multiple species. See account by Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 441–443. Welsh and Karraker, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 882–884, provided a detailed account that summarized the biology and conservation literature. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 225, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Emel and Storfer, 2015, Conserv. Genetics, 16: 209–221, reported on landscape genetics. Altig and McDiarmid, 2015, Handb. Larval Amph. US and Canada: 131–132, provided an account of larval morphology and biology. Emel, Olson, Knowles, and Storfer, 2019, Conserv. Genetics, 20: 801–815, reported on landscape genetics with respect to conservation and forest management. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 494–496, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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