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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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Pleurodeles poireti (Gervais, 1835)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Pleurodeles > Species: Pleurodeles poireti

Triton poireti Gervais, 1835, Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, Ser. 2, 6: 312. Type(s): Not stated; MNHNP 4744, considered holotype by Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 8. Thireau, 1986, Cat. Types Urodeles Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., Rev. Crit.: 56, noted that MNHNP 4744 consisted of two specimens. Type locality: Bone (Algeria).

Glossoliga poireti — Bonaparte, 1839, Iconograph. Fauna Ital., 2 (Fasc. 26): unnumbered.

Salamandra fenestratus — Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 19. Nomen nudum (label name), reported by Gray.

Euproctus poireti — Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril, 1854, Erp. Gen., 9: 160.

Glossoliga Hagenmulleri Lataste, 1881, Le Naturaliste, 3: 371. Syntypes: 32 specimens, presumably originally in Lataste's personal collection which was ultimately transferred to the BM; including BMNH 1946.9.6.77–82 (formerly BMNH 1920.1.20.1165), according to museum records and Brame and Gorham, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 68, and MZUT An314 (4 specimens), according to Gavetti and Andreone, 1993, Cat. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat., Torino, 10: 23. Type locality: "Bône", Algeria; rendered as Mount Edough, Bona, Algeria by Pasteur, 1958, Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Phys. Maroc, 39. Synonymy by Pasteur, 1958, Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Phys. Maroc, 39: 160.

Molge hagenmuelleri — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 26. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Molge poireti — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 25.

Triton hagenmülleri — Camerano, 1885, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, Ser. 2, 36: 419. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Triturus poireti — Camerano, 1885, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, Ser. 2, 36: 419; Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 304.

Pleurodeles poireti hagenmuelleri —Lataste in Boulenger, 1895, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 13: 162. Incorrect subsequent spelling of hagenmulleri.

Pleurodeles poireti poireti —Lataste in Boulenger, 1895, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 13: 162, by implication.

Triton (Pleurodeles) hagenmülleri — Wolterstorff, 1901, Feuille Jeunes Nat., Ser. 4, 31: 76. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Triton (Pleurodeles) poireti — Wolterstorff, 1901, Feuille Jeunes Nat., Ser. 4, 31: 76. Wolterstorff, 1902, Triton der Untergattung Euproctus: 44; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 11.

Pleurodeles hagenmülleri — Wolterstorff, 1905, C. R. Séances 6th Congr. Internatl. Zool., Berne, 1904: 262.

Pleurodeles poireti hagenmülleri — Wolterstorff, 1905, C. R. Séances 6th Congr. Internatl. Zool., Berne, 1904: 263. Incorrect subsequent spelling of hagenmulleri.

Triturus hagenmulleri — Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 304.

Pleurodeles poireti — Pasteur, 1958, Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Phys. Maroc, 39: 160.

Pleurodeles (Pleurodeles) poireti — Risch, 1985, J. Bengal Nat. Hist. Soc., N.S.,, 4: 141.

Common Names

Algerian Newt (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 67).

Algerian Ribbed Newt (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35).

Algerian Salamander (CITES).

Edough Ribbed Newt (Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 305).

Edough Newt (Escoriza and Ben Hassine, 2019, Amph. N. Afr.: 86).

Edough's Newt (Mateo, Géniez, and Pether, 2013, Basic & Appl. Herpetol., 27: 57).

Distribution

Found only in the coastal massif of Edough, the Guerbes-Sendhadja wetlands and the Mekhada marsh of northeastern Algeria.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Algeria

Endemic: Algeria

Comment

See Pleurodeles nebulosus for discussion of systematics. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 606. Mateo, Géniez, and Pether, 2013, Basic & Appl. Herpetol., 27: 51–83, provided a range map and comments on the range and population status in Algeria. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 180, provided a brief account, photographs, and range map. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 305–307, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Escoriza, Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Ben Hassine, and Martínez-Solano, 2016, Conserv. Genetics, 17: 1445–1458, provided a genetic assessment of hybridization of this species with Pleurodeles nebulosus. Escoriza and Ben Hassine, 2017, Zootaxa, 4237: 587–592, compared the larval morphology of Pleurodeles nebulosus, Pleurodeles waltl, and Pleurodeles poireti. See detailed account by Escoriza and Ben Hassine, 2019, Amph. N. Afr.: 86–94. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 36–37, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 157, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology, a range map, as well as a photograph. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 271, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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