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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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Tylototriton taliangensis Liu, 1950

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Tylototriton > Species: Tylototriton taliangensis

Tylototriton taliangensis Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 106. Holotype: FMNH 49388, by original designation. Type locality: "Pusakang, Fulinhsien, Sikang [now Sichuan], 8700 feet altitude", China.

Tylototriton (Tylototriton) taliangensis — Zhao and Hu, 1984, Stud. Chinese Tailed Amph.: 9; Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 33.

Pleurodeles (Tylototriton) taliangensis — Risch, 1985, J. Bengal Nat. Hist. Soc., N.S.,, 4: 141; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 11.

Tylototriton (Tylototriton) taliangensis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 68.

Liangshantriton taliangensis — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 44.

Common Names

Pusakang Crocodile Newt (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 36).

Taliang Knobby Newt (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 42).

Daliang Crocodile Newt (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 322).

Distribution

Southeastern Hengduan Mountains in southern Sichuan (Ebian, Hanyuan, Mabian, Meigu, Mianning, Shimian, and Zhaojue counties), China, 1300–3050 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 78; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 42; and Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 229-231. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 95, provided a brief account and illustration. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 33-34. In the Tylototriton verrucosus group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 42 (although they only addressed Chinese species). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 277–280, provided an account and range map. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 147, provided a brief account (as Tylototriton taliangensis), figure, and map. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Tylototriton taliangensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 642. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 80, provided a brief account (as Tylototriton taliangensis) including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 96, provided an account, photographs, and a map. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 185, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 371–372, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 295–318–320, provided an account, photograph, and range map. The phylogenetic analysis of Kieren, Sparreboom, Hochkirch, and Veith, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 121: 98–109, implies that recognition of Liangshantriton may render Tylototriton nonmonophyletic. Bernardes, Le, Nguyen, Pham, Pham, Nguyen, Rödder, Bonkowski, and Ziegler, 2020, ZooKeys, 935: 121–164, provided a range map and phylogenetic placement. In the Tylototriton (Tylototriton) taliangensis species group of Poyarkov, Nguyen, and Arkhipov, 2021, Taprobanica, 10: 4–22, who discussed phylogenetics. In the Tylototriton taliangensis group of Lyu, Wang, Zeng, Zhou, Qi, Wan, Li, and Wang, 2021, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 71: 697–710, who discussed phylogenetics. Shu, Hou, Cheng, Shu, Lin, Wang, Li, Song, Jiang, and Xie, 2022, Zool. Res., Kunming, 43: 129–146, discussed (as Liangshantriton taliangensis) molecular phylogeography, historical biogeography, conservation genetics, and conservation recommendations. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 322–323, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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