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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Hypselotriton orphicus (Risch, 1983)

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

Cynops orphicus Risch, 1983, Alytes, 2: 46. Holotype: MVZ 22474, by original designation. Type locality: "Dayang (Tai-Yong), Shantou Region, Guangdong Province, China, 23° 35´ N, 115° 51´ E, altitude 640 m".

Hypselotriton (Pingia) orphicus — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 45, 65.

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

Cynops glaucus Yuan, Jiang, Ding, Zhang, and Che, 2013, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 4: 120. Holotype: KIZ 09791, by original designation. Type locality: "Meiguang Village (23.67° N, 115.80° E; elevation 742 m), in Mt. Lianhua, Wuhua County, Meizhou, Guangdong, China". Synonymy by Wang, Zeng, Wei, and Lyu, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 1121.

Hypselotriton (Cynotriton) glaucus — Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 157.

Hypselotriton (Hakkatriton) orphicus — Wang, Zeng, Wei, and Lyu, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 1126.

Common Names

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

Dayang Fire-bellied Newt (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 436).

Blue-gray Fire-bellied Newt (Hypseolotriton glaucus [no longer recognized]: Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 403).

Bluish Grey Fire-bellied Newt (Hypseolotriton glaucus [no longer recognized]: Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 190).

Distribution

Multiple localities at elevations of 490–1500 m in the Lianhua Mountains and on the west of the Hanjiang River in eastern Guangdong, China.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Related to Cynops cyanurus, according to the original publication. Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 322, and Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 342-345, provided accounts and range maps. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 128, provided a brief account, figure, 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: 600. Wu, Wang, Jiang, and Hanken, 2010, Zootaxa, 2346: 42-52, commented on range and relationships. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 98-99, provided a brief account including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 126–127, provided an account, photographs, and a 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.: 157, provided a brief account, range map, and photograph. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 192–193, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 411–413, provided an account, photograph, and range map and noted that this is a member of the Cynops orientalis group. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 21, provided a brief account for Guangdong, China, and photograph. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 436–437, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Wang, Zeng, Wei, and Lyu, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 1121–1134, reported on molecular phylogenetics, distribution, morphology, provided a revised diagnosis, and found that the population of nominal Hypselotriton orphicus from Mt Fenghuang in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China, was noted to be a distinct species, Hypselotriton oolong.

Comment formerly associated with Hypselotriton glaucus prior to its synonymy (16 Aug. 2024): The sister taxon of a group composed of Cynops cyanurus, Cynops orphicus, Cynops fudingensis, and Cynops orientalis according to the original publication. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 157, provided a brief account, range map, and photograph. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 190, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 403–405, provided an account, photograph, and range map and noted that this is a member of the Cynops orientalis group. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 437–437, provided a brief account and distribution map.

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