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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 Wolterstorff, 1934

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

11 species

Hypselotriton Wolterstorff, 1934, Zool. Anz., 108: 257. Type species: Molge wolterstorffi Boulenger, 1905, by original designation.

Cynotriton Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2011, Alytes, 27: 152. Type species: Triton (Cynops) orientalis David, 1875, by original designation. Coined as a subgenus of Hypselotriton.

Hakkatriton Wang, Zeng, Wei, and Lyu, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 1126. Type species: Cynops orphicus Risch, 1983, by original designation. Coined as a subgenus of Hypselotriton. Zoobank Publication Registration: 7720F592-80B8-417D-AB7F-EF28AE0B91B4

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

China (southern Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangxi, southern Hubei, Henan, Hunan, Yunnan, and Guizhou provinces).

Comment

See comment under Cynops for a more detailed summary of the taxonomic peregrinations of this taxon in and out of Cynops. Removed from the synonymy of Cynops by Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 31–32, 45 , where it had been placed by Zhao and Hu, 1984, Stud. Chinese Tailed Amph.: 21; Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 391–392. See comment under Cynops, with which this taxon has a literature history deeply entwined. Yuan, Wu, Yan, Murphy, Papenfuss, Wake, Zhang, and Che, 2022, Zool. Res., Kunming, 43: 706–718, provided molecular evidence for the paraphyly of Cynops sensu lato, with Hypselotriton (=mainland "Cynops" being more closely related to Laotriton, Paramesotriton, and Pachytriton than to Cynops sensu stricto. Wang, Zeng, Wei, and Lyu, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 1121–1134, discussed the molecular phylogenetics of the species of Hypselotriton, provided a key to subgenus employing morphology and confirmed the paraphyly of Cynops sensu lato (in the sense of including Hypselotriton) with respect to a group composed of Laotriton, Paramesotriton, and Pachytriton. They also recognized three monophyletic subgenera within Hypselotriton: Cynotriton (Hypselotriton oolong, Hypselotriton maguae, Hypselotriton fudingensis, and Hypselotriton orientalis), Hypselotriton (Hypselotriton cyanurus, Hypselotriton wolterstorffi, Hypselotriton chenggongensis, and Hypselotriton yunnanensis), and Hakkatriton (Hypselotriton glaucus, Hypselotriton jiaoren and Hypselotriton orphicus). The authors did not address Hypselotriton chuxiongensis (although implying subspecies status under Hypselotrion cyanurus). Shen, Nishikawa, Jiang, Matsui, Rao, Yoshikawa, Tominaga, and Sanamxay, 2024, Zool. Res. Divers. Conserv., 1: 191–200, in their discussion of the phylogenetics, morpholological and molecular evolution, and biogeography of the Asian salamandrids (Cynops, Hypselotriton [though considered part of Cynops], Paramesotriton, Pachytriton, and Laotriton, suggested that at the very least the status of Cynops (sensu stricto and sensu lato) as monophyletic is deeply questionable and not supportable without additional evidence brought to bear, further evidence in support of Hypselotriton as more closely related to other Asian pleurdelines than to Cynops.

Contained taxa (11 sp.):

Hypselotriton chenggongensis (Kou and Xing, 1983)

Hypselotriton cyanurus (Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1962)

Hypselotriton fudingensis (Wu, Wang, Jiang, and Hanken, 2010)

Hypselotriton huanggangensis Jiang, Huang, Fan, Cheng, Raffaëlli, and Chen, 2024

Hypselotriton jiaoren (Lyu, Qi, and Wang, 2023)

Hypselotriton maguae (Lyu, Qi, and Wang, 2023)

Hypselotriton oolong Wang, Zeng, Wei, and Lyu, 2024

Hypselotriton orientalis (David, 1873)

Hypselotriton orphicus (Risch, 1983)

Hypselotriton wolterstorffi (Boulenger, 1905)

Hypselotriton yunnanensis (Yang, 1979)

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