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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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Paramesotriton chinensis (Gray, 1859)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Paramesotriton > Species: Paramesotriton chinensis

Cynops chinensis Gray, 1859, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859: 229. Syntypes: Not stated but BMNH 1947.9.6.14–15 (formerly 1859.11.18.8–9) by museum records; BMNH 1947.9.6.15 designated lectotype by Myers and Leviton, 1962, Occas. Pap. Div. Syst. Biol. Stanford Univ., 10: 1. Type locality:"River N. E. Coast of China, inland from Ningpo", China.

Triton chinensis — Strauch, 1870, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, Ser. 7, 16 (4): 51.

Triton sinesis — Sauvage, 1876, L’Institut, Paris, N.S.,, 4: 274. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Molge sinensis — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 20.

Diemictylus sinensis — Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 20.

Triturus sinensis — Dunn, 1918, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 62: 448.

Triton (Cynops) chinensis — Wolterstorff, 1925, Abh. Ber. Mus. Nat. Heimatkd. Magdeburg, 4: 292. Based on Paramesotriton hongkongensis according to XXX.

Cynops chinensis — Wolterstorff and Herre, 1935, Arch. Naturgesch., Leipzig, N. F., 4: 224.

Trituroides chinensis — Chang, 1935, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 60: 425; Chang, 1936, Contr. Etude Morphol. Biol. Syst. Amph. Urodeles Chine: 106.

Triturus sinensis boringi Herre, 1939, Abh. Ber. Mus. Nat. Heimatkd. Magdeburg, 7: 84–85. Holotype: MM; destroyed in W.W.II. Type locality: "Linhai" (= Taichow), Zhejiang Province, China.

Triturus chinensis — Pope and Boring, 1940, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 15: 23.

Paramesotriton chinensis — Freytag, 1962, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 38: 451–459.

Trituroides chinensis — Sichuan Biological Research Institute, 1977, Syst. Key Chinese Amph.: 14.

Paramesotriton chinensis chinensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 61–62; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 90.

Triturus sinensis boringae — Michels and Bauer, 2004, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 52: 84. Unjustified emendation according to Dubois, 2007, Zootaxa, 1550: 67.

Paramesotriton (Paramesotriton) chinensis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 49, 65.

Common Names

Chinese Warty Newt (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 48).

Chinese Newt (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 32).

Zhejiang Warty Newt (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 439).

Distribution

Zhejiang and west and south into Anhui to northeastern Jiangxi and northern Fujian, China, 200 to 1200 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

See accounts by Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 15; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 88; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 48; and Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 324–325. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 22–23, provided an account (as Trituroides chinensis) for Zhejiang. In the Paramesotriton chinensis group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 45 (although they only addressed Chinese species). Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 130, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Wu, Rovito, Papenfuss, and Hanken, 2009, Zootaxa, 2060: 59–68, noted that the Guangxi population of Paramesotriton chinensis is now referred to Paramesotriton ermizhaoi (this population having now been placed into the synonymy of Paramesotriton labiatus). Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 86–87, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 112, provided an account, photographs, and map. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 158–159, provided a brief account, range map, and photograph and noted that records from Guangxi, China, are referable to Paramesotriton longliensis and Paramesotriton zhijinensis. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 286–288, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 372–375, provided an account, photograph, and range map. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 17, provided a brief account for Guangdong, China, and photograph. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 439–440, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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