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* = "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
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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"
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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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Ommatotriton nesterovi (Litvinchuk, Zuiderwijk, Borkin, and Rosanov, 2005)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Ommatotriton > Species: Ommatotriton nesterovi

Triturus ophryticus nesterovi Litvinchuk, Zuiderwijk, Borkin, and Rosanov, 2005, Amphibia-Reptilia, 26: 317. Holotype: ZISP 6185.1, by original designation. Type locality: "vicinity of the town Bolu (40° 42´ N, 31° 33´ E), Bolu Prov., Turkey".

Ommatotriton nesterovi—Bülbül and Kutrup, 2013, Animal Biol., 63: 297; van Riemsdijk, Arntzen, Bogaerts, Franzen, Litvinchuk, Olgun, and Wielstra, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 114: 73.

English Names

Anatolian Banded Newt (Üzüm, Avcı, Olgun, Bülbül, Fahrbach, Litvinchuk, and Wielstra, 2019, Salamandra, 55: 132).

Nesterov's Banded Newt (Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 144).

Distribution

From the vicinity of Akçay, on the northern part of Anatolia west to the Sea of Marmara region near Subaşi, Turkey.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Turkey

Endemic: Turkey

Comment

Comparison of skeletal muscle protein electrophoresis bands and vertebral counts of Ommatriton ophriticus ophryticus (now Ommatotriton ophryticus) and Ommatotrion ophryticus nesterovi (now Ommatotriton nesterovi) provided by Kutrup and Bülbül, 2011, Turkish J. Zool., 35: 579–584. First recognized as distinct from Ommatotriton ophryticus by Bülbül and Kutrup, 2013, Animal Biol., 63: 297–312, on the basis of morphometrics and 16s mtDNA. This study was much expanded, confirmed, and documented more precisely by van Riemsdijk, Arntzen, Bogaerts, Franzen, Litvinchuk, Olgun, and Wielstra, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 114: 73–81, on the basis of mt and nuDNA and dense geographic sampling. Üzüm, Avcı, Olgun, Bülbül, Fahrbach, Litvinchuk, and Wielstra, 2019, Salamandra, 55: 131–134, provided external morphological characters to distinguish this species from Ommatotriton ophryticus and Ommatotriton vittatus. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 144, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology, a range map, as well as a photograph. van Riemsdijk, Arntzen, Babik, Bogaerts, Franzen, Kalaentzis, Litvinchuk, Olgun, Wijnands, and Wielstra, 2022, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 167 (107361): 1–9, reported on the phylogenetics and phylogeography. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 390–391, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Kalaentzis, Arntzen, Avcı, van den Berg, Beukema, France, Olgun, van Riemsdijk, Üzüm, and de Visser, 2023, Ecol. Evol., 13(e10442): 1–10, detailed the narrow hybrid zone with Ommatotriton ophryticus in Samsun, Balıkesir, Ordu, and Guzeyali provinces, north-central Turkey, and documented strong selection against hybrids.

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