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 wolterstorffi (Boulenger, 1905)

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

Molge wolterstorffi Boulenger, 1905, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1905: 277. Syntypes: BMNH 1946.9.6.30–34 (formerly 1905.30.51–59), according to Brame and Gorham, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 51, and museum records. Type locality: "Yunnan fu . . . about 6000 feet", Yunnan, China.

Triturus wolterstorffi — Dunn, 1918, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 62: 451.

Triton (Cynops) wolterstorffi — Wolterstorff, 1925, Abh. Ber. Mus. Nat. Heimatkd. Magdeburg, 4: 292.

Hypselotriton wolterstorffi — Wolterstorff, 1934, Zool. Anz., 108: 257.

Cynops wolterstorffi — Chang, 1935, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 60: 426.

Hypselotriton wolterstorffi — Wolterstorff and Herre, 1935, Arch. Naturgesch., Leipzig, N. F., 4: 224.

Triturus wolterstorffi — Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 109.

Hypselotriton wolterstorffi — Freytag, 1962, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 38: 451–459.

Cynops (Hypselotriton) wolterstorffi — Scholz, 1995, Acta Biol. Benrodis, 7: 25–75.

Hypselotriton (Hypselotriton) chenggongensis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 45.

Common Names

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

Yunnan Lake Newt (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 56).

Distribution

Dianchi lake near Kunming and Yiliang, Yunnan, China, 1900 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Discussed by Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 109–110 (as Hypselotriton wolterstorffi), Freytag, 1962, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 38: 456, Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 38–40, Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 103, Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 56; and Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 319. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 345–350, provided an account and map (as Hypselotriton wolterstorffi). Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 127, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 20–21, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. 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: 144, who regarded the species as extinct. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 101, provided a brief account including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 128, provided an account (as Hypselotriton wolterstorffi), photographs, and a map. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 155, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 197–198, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 413–418, provided an account (as Hypselotriton wolterstorffi), photograph, and range map and noted that this is a member of the Cynops orientalis group, and likely now extinct. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 431–432, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status (extinct), and distribution (including a polygon map).

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