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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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Hypselotriton orientalis (David, 1873)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Hypselotriton > Species: Hypselotriton orientalis

Triton (Cynops) orientalis David, 1873 "1872", J. N. China Branch R. Asiat. Soc., N.S., 7: 226. Syntypes: Not stated; MNHNP 4763 (2 specimens) and 8120-21, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 9. MNHNP 8120-21 rejected as types by Thireau, 1986, Cat. Types Urodeles Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., Rev. Crit.: 51, who discussed types and considered only MNHNP 4763 (2 specimens) to be syntypes. Type locality: "Tchékiang", Zhejiang, China; given as "Chüchow, Chekiang", China by Gee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 18; given as Tche-san, near Chuchowfu, Chekiang [= Zhejiang] Province, China by Brame and Gorham, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 43, and Brame, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 608. Regarded as a nomen nudum by Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 337.

Triton pyrrhogaster orientalis — Wolterstorff, 1906, Zool. Anz., 30: 558.

Diemictylus orientalis — Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 20.

Triturus orientalis — Stejneger, 1925, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 66: 3. Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 431.

Cynops orientalis — Wolterstorff and Herre, 1935, Arch. Naturgesch., Leipzig, N. F., 4: 224.

Hypselotriton (Pingia) orientalis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 65.

Cynops orientalis qianshan Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 599. Holotype: CIB 74II0751, by original designation. Type locality: "Yidu, Qianshan Co., (30° 37′ N, 116° 34′ E), Anhui Prov., China: altitude 600m". See corrigenda in Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 409.

Hypselotriton (Cynotriton) orientalis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2011, Alytes, 27: 152.

Hypselotriton (Cynotriton) orientalis orientalis — Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 155.

Hypselotriton (Cynotriton) orientalis qianshan — Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 156.

English Names

Chinese Dwarf Newt (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35).

Chinese Fire-bellied Newt (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 31).

Oriental Fire-bellied Newt (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 54).

Zhejiang Fire-bellied Newt (Hypselotriton orientalis orientalis: Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 433).

Qianshan Fire-bellied Newt (Hypselotriton orientalis qianshan: Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 433).

Distribution

East-central China, including southern Anhui, northern Jiangxi, southernmost Jiangxu, Zhejiang, Guangxi, northern Fujian, southeastern Hubei, and northeastern Hunan.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 103; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 54-56; and Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 315-318. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 27-29, provided an account for Zhejiang. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 337-342, provided an account and range map. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 127-128, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 100, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 124–125, provided an account, photographs, and map. Yuan, Jiang, Ding, Zhang, and Che, 2013, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 4: 116–123, reported on the molecular phylogenetics of this species. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 155–156, provided brief accounts by subspecies, photographs, and range map. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 190–192, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 406–410, provided accounts by subspecies, photographs, and range maps and noted that this is a member of the Cynops orientalis group. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 83–88, provided an account for Hunan, China. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 433–435, provided subspecies accounts, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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