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
	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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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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Euproctus montanus (Savi, 1838)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Euproctus > Species: Euproctus montanus

Megapterna montana Savi, 1838, Nuovo Giorn. Lett., Pisa, 37: 211. Type(s): Not stated or known to exist; possibly in PUM by implication of statement Eiselt, 1958, Abh. Ber. Naturkd. Magdeburg, 10: 133, regarding location of type of Salamandra corsica Savi, 1838. Type locality: "le montagne della Corsica", France.

Triturus (Euproctus) montanus — Boulenger, 1878, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 3: 308.

Euproctus montanus — Giglioli, 1878, Nature, 19: 97. Wolterstorff, 1925, Abh. Ber. Mus. Nat. Heimatkd. Magdeburg, 4: 295; Mertens and Müller, 1928, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 41: 10; Wolterstorff and Herre, 1935, Arch. Naturgesch., Leipzig, N. F., 4: 224.

Molge montana — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 23.

Triton montanus — Schulze, 1891, Jahresber. Abhandl. Naturwiss. Ver. Magdeburg, 1890: 170; Schreiber, 1912, Herpetol. Eur., Ed. 2: 53.

Triton (Euproctus) montanus — Wolterstorff, 1901, Feuille Jeunes Nat., Ser. 4, 31: 73; Wolterstorff, 1902, Triton der Untergattung Euproctus: 14.

English Names

Corsican Mountain Newt (Bruno, 1973, Natura, Milano, 64: 360; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 32; Rimpp, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 56).

Corsican Brook Salamander (Arnold and Burton, 1978, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Brit. Eur.: 39; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 32; Stumpel-Rienks, 1992, Ergänzungsband Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., Trivialnamen der Herpetofauna Eur.: 48).

Corsican Mountain Salamander (Steward, 1969, Tailed Amph. Eur.: 39; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35; Stumpel-Rienks, 1992, Ergänzungsband Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., Trivialnamen der Herpetofauna Eur.: 48).

Corsican Salamander (Hellmich, 1962, Rept. Amph. Eur.: 52).

Corsican Brook Newt (Speybroeck, Beukema, Bok, and Van Der Voort, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Brit. Eur.: 80).

Corsican Newt (Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 207).

Distribution

Mountains of Corsica, from sea level to 2260 m elevation, France.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: France

Endemic: France

Comment

See discussion of relevant literature and distribution by Delaguerre and Cheylan, 1992, Atlas Repart. Batr. Rept. Corse: 21-23; and Rimpp, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 56-57. Rimpp and Thiesmeier, 1999, in Grossenbacher and Thiesmeier (eds.), Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., 4(1): 271-284, provided a review of the biology. Obst in Engelmann, Fritzsche, Günther, and Obst, 1993, Lurche Kriechtiere Eur.: 71-72, and Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 147–148, provided brief accounts, photos, and maps. See detailed account by Salvidio and Sindaco, 2007, in Lanza et al. (eds.), Fauna d'Italia, 42 (Amph.): 186-192. Nöllert and Nöllert, 1992, Die Amph. Eur.: 163-164, provided a brief account. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 207–209, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Speybroeck, Beukema, Bok, and Van Der Voort, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Brit. Eur.: 80, provided a brief account and distribution map. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 153, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology, a range map, as well as a photograph. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 470–472, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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