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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Ichthyosaura veluchiensis (Wolterstorff, 1935)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Ichthyosaura > Species: Ichthyosaura veluchiensis

Triturus alpestris subsp. graeca Wolterstorff, 1934, Bl. Aquar. Terrarienkd., Stuttgart, 45: 253. Holotype: MM; destroyed in WWII; MNHNP 1985.472 designated neotype (of Triturus alpestris veluchiensis, the replacement name) by Breuil and Parent, 1988, Alytes, 7: 25. Type locality: "Veluchigebirge (westlich Lamia) aus ca. 2000 m. Höhe", Greece. Neotype from "mont Veluchi (1870 m)", Greece. Preocuppied by Triton vulgaris graeca Wolterstorff, 1905.

Triturus alpestris veluchiensis Wolterstorff, 1935, Bl. Aquar. Terrarienkd., Stuttgart, 46: 164. Substitute name for Triturus alpestris graeca Wolterstorff, 1935.

Ichthyosaura alpestris (reiseri) veluchiensis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 66.

Ichthyosaura alpestris veluchiensis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 37.

Ichthyosaura veluchiensis — Raffaëlli, 2018, Alytes, 36: 190.

Common Names

Greek Alpine Newt (Triturus alpestris veluchiensis: Steward, 1969, Tailed Amph. Eur.: 39).

Distribution

Pelopennesian Greece north to Kosovo, eastern Albania and North Macedonia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Albania, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia

Comment

Valakos, Pafilis, Sotiropoulos, Lymberakis, Maragou, and Foufopoulos, 2008, Amph. Rept. Greece: 155–158, provided an account (as Ichthyosaura alpestris) for Greece (excluding eastern population now assigned to Ichthyosaura reiseri). Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 369–371, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Tzoras, 2023, Reptiles & Amphibians, 30 (e18698): 1–4, provided a dot map and habitat descriptions from the northwestern Pelopennese Peninsula, Greece.

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