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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 platycephalus (Gravenhorst, 1829)

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

Molge platycephala Gravenhorst, 1829, Delic. Mus. Zool. Vratislav., 1: 84. Syntype(s): Not stated, although presumably originally in the Breslau Museum (now MNHHWU). Type locality: Not stated; syntypes originally coming from Sardinia and Corsica but restricted to "Sardinien [= Sardinia]", Italy, by Mertens and Müller, 1928, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 41: 9.

Euproctus rusconii Gené, 1839, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, Ser. 2, 1: 282. Syntype(s): MZUT An622 (6 specimens), according to Gavetti and Andreone, 1993, Cat. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat., Torino, 10: 22. Type locality: "aquis lente fluentibus et cavis montium lacunis Sardiniae borealis et mediae", Sardinia, Italy; restricted by Mertens and Wermuth, 1960, Amph. Rept. Europas: 18, to "Monte Gennargentu, Sardinien", Italy. Synonymy by Bonaparte, 1839, Iconograph. Fauna Ital., 2 (Fasc. 26): 131; Bonaparte, 1840, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, Ser. 2, 2: 451; Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 24; Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril, 1854, Erp. Gen., 9: 142 (under Euproctus rusconi).

Euproctus platycephalus — Bonaparte, 1839, Iconograph. Fauna Ital., 2 (Fasc. 26): pl.

Phatnomatorhina platycephalus —Bibron In Bonaparte, 1839, Iconograph. Fauna Ital., 2 (Fasc. 26): sign 131.

Triton rusconii — Bonaparte, 1840, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, Ser. 2, 2: 453; Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 24, attributed to Gené, 1839, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, Ser. 2, 1: 282.

Pelonectes platycephalus — Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 33.

Bulga rusconii — Gistel, 1868, Die Lurche Europas: 159. Synonymy by Mertens, 1936, Senckenb. Biol., 18: 76.

Triton platycephalus — Strauch, 1870, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, Ser. 7, 16 (4): 50.

Triturus (Euproctus) platicephalus — Boulenger, 1878, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 3: 307.

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

Molge rusconii — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 24.

Triton rusconii — Schulze, 1891, Jahresber. Abhandl. Naturwiss. Ver. Magdeburg, 1890: 170; Schreiber, 1912, Herpetol. Eur., Ed. 2: 58.

Triton (Euproctus) rusconii — Wolterstorff, 1901, Feuille Jeunes Nat., Ser. 4, 31: 73.

Diemictylus rusconii — Fowler and Dunn, 1917, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 69: 28.

Euproctus platycephalus — Mertens and Müller, 1928, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 41: 10; Wolterstorff and Herre, 1935, Arch. Naturgesch., Leipzig, N. F., 4: 224.

Common Names

Sardinian Newt (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 33; Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 210).

Sardinian Mountain Newt (Bruno, 1973, Natura, Milano, 64: 365; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 32; Stumpel-Rienks, 1992, Ergänzungsband Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., Trivialnamen der Herpetofauna Eur.: 49; Rimpp, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 58).

Sardinian Brook Salamander (Arnold and Burton, 1978, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Brit. Eur.: 39; Stumpel-Rienks, 1992, Ergänzungsband Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., Trivialnamen der Herpetofauna Eur.: 49; Speybroeck, Beukema, Bok, and Van Der Voort, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Brit. Eur.: 81).

Sardinian Mountain Salamander (Steward, 1969, Tailed Amph. Eur.: 39).

Sardinia Mountain Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35).

Flat-headed Salamander (Hellmich, 1962, Rept. Amph. Eur.: 51).

Sardinian Brook Newt (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 473).

Distribution

Isolated populations in the mountains of Sardinia, Italy, 50–1800 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Italy

Endemic: Italy

Comment

See discussion of relevant literature and distribution by Rimpp, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 58–59. Rimpp and Thiesmeier, 1999, in Grossenbacher and Thiesmeier (eds.), Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., 4(1): 285–300, provided a review of the biology. Obst in Engelmann, Fritzsche, Günther, and Obst, 1993, Lurche Kriechtiere Eur.: 72, and Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 148–149, provided a brief account, photo, and map. 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: 601. See detailed account by Lecis, 2007, in Lanza et al. (eds.), Fauna d'Italia, 42 (Amph.): 192–195. Nöllert and Nöllert, 1992, Die Amph. Eur.: 165–166, provided a brief account. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 210–212, 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.: 81–82, provided a brief account and distribution map. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 154, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology, a range map, as well as a photograph. Corti, Biaggini, Nulchis, Cogoni, Cossu, Frau, Mulargia, Lunghi, and Bassu, 2022, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 17: 125–133, reported on the range in Sardinia. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 473–476, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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