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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
	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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Pachytriton inexpectatus Nishikawa, Jiang, Matsui, and Mo, 2011

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Pachytriton > Species: Pachytriton inexpectatus

Pachytriton inexpectatus Nishikawa, Jiang, Matsui, and Mo, 2011, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 28: 458. Holotype: CIB BX20081006, by original designation. Type locality: "Mt. Dayao, Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China (24° 5′ N, 110° 13′ E, 1140 m a.s.l.)".

Common Names

Yaoshan Stout Newt (Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 336).

Yaoshan Paddle-tailed Newt (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 469).

Distribution

Eastern Guizhou, southwestern and southern Hunan, extreme northwestern Guangdong, and northern and eastern Guangxi, China, at elevations of 1140 to 1800 m.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Nishikawa, Jiang, Matsui, and Mo, 2011, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 28: 453-461, discovered a confusing situation where most of what had been referred to as the northeastern population of Pachytriton labiatus should have the name Pachytriton granulosus applied; the southwestern population of former Pachytriton labiatus was a distinct species, which they name Pachytriton inexpectatus, and the types of nominal Pachytriton labiatus were conspecific with what had been named Paramesotriton ermizhaoi and not with the populations that had had the name Pachytriton labiatus applied for so long. All literature prior to 2011 should be used with great caution because of this. See account (as Pachytriton labiatus) by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 94, and Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 24, provided an account for population in Guangxi, China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 319-323, provided an account (as Pachytriton labiatus) and range map. Wu, Wang, and Hanken, 2012, Zootaxa, 3388: : 1-16, commented on their concerns regarding the species taxonomy. Wu, Wang, and Hanken, 2012, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 3: 83-102, reassigned specimens from eastern Anhui, northereastern Jiangxi, and Zhejiang to to Pachytriton brevipes. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 106-107, provided an account, photographs, and a map. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 169, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 279–281, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 336–339, provided an account, photograph, and range map. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 77–83, provided an account. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 469, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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