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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 labiatus (Unterstein, 1930)

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

Molge labiatum Unterstein, 1930, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1930: 313. Syntypes: ZMB (4 specimens); ZMB 34087 considered holotype by Bauer, Good, and Günther, 1993, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 69: 296. Type locality: "Kwangsi" (= Guangxi), China. Fan, 1931, Bull. Dept. Biol. Coll. Sci. Sun Yatsen Univ., 11: 2, describing the expedition from whence the types came noted that "The main place from where the great majority of our specimens were secured, was a village named Loshiang () . . . . It is surrounded by lofty peaks no less than 3,000 ft. Streams run here and there through the junglewoods of a typical subtopical character . . . ." So, most likely the types came from Loshiang or its vicinity. Bauer, Good, and Günther, 1993, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 69: 296, noted that data with the holotype were "Yao Shan [= Mt. Yao], Kwangsi Prov. [= Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region], China".

Pachytriton brevipes labiatus — Hu, Zhao, and Liu, 1973, Acta Zool. Sinica, 19: 149–178. Presumably based on specimens of Pachytrion inexpectatus.

Pachytriton labiatus — Zhao and Hu, 1984, Stud. Chinese Tailed Amph.: 10. Presumably based on specimens of Pachytrion inexpectatus.

Pachytriton labiatus — Zhao, Hu, Jiang, and Yang, 1988, Studies on Chinese Salamanders: 16-18; Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 46. Presumably based on specimens of Pachytrion inexpectatus.

Paramesotriton ermizhaoi Wu, Rovito, Papenfuss, and Hanken, 2009, Zootaxa, 2060: 64. Holotype: CIB 88141, by original designation. Type locality: "Mt. Dayao (24°07´N, 110°13´E, 881m elevation), Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, P. R. China". Synonymy by Nishikawa, Jiang, Matsui, and Mo, 2011, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 28: 458.

Paramesotriton labiatus — Nishikawa, Jiang, Matsui, and Mo, 2011, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 28: 457.

Paramesotriton (Paramesotriton) labiatus — Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 163.

Common Names

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

Spotless Smooth Warty Newt (Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 296).

Unterstein's Warty Newt (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 444).

Distribution

Known from Mount Dayao, Jinxiu and Longshen counties, Guangxi, China, 880 to 1300 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Confused with Paramesotriton chinensis previous to its recognition according to the original publication. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 27, provided an account for this species (as Paramesotriton chinensis) in Guangxi, China. 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. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 163, provided a brief account, range map, and photograph. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 296–297, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 383–385, provided an account, photograph, and range map. Zhong, Zhang, Zheng, Zhang, Ding, and Lin, 2021, MtDNA, Part B, 6: 428–429, provided an mtDNA Bayesian tree which suggests that this species may actually belong in Pachytrton. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 444–446, provided an account, summarizing systematics (including suggested that the species may belong in Pachytriton), life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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