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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.
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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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Lyciasalamandra atifi (Başoğlu, 1967)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Salamandrinae > Genus: Lyciasalamandra > Species: Lyciasalamandra atifi

Mertensiella luschani atifi Başoğlu, 1967, Sci. Rep. Fac. Sci. Ege Univ., Izmir, 44: 3-11. Holotype: SZE 1/1967, by original designation. Type locality: "Türbelinaz, Alanya (southern Anatolia)", Türkiye.

Lyciasalamandra atifi — Veith and Steinfartz, 2004, Salamandra, 40: 76.

Lyciasalamandra atifi atifi — Yildiz and Akman, 2015, Herpetozoa, Wien, 28: 7.

Lyciasalamandra atifi bayrami Yildiz and Akman, 2015, Herpetozoa, Wien, 28: 7. Holotype: ZMADYU 2011/216-2, by original designation. Type locality: "Dim Cave, Alanya, Antalya, Turkey, 232 m a.s.l."

Lyciasalamandra atifi oezi Tok, Afsar, and Yakin, 2016, Ecol. Montenegrina, 9: 40. Holotype: Collection of the Molecular Zootaxonomy Laboratory of Çanakkale, Onsekiz Mart University, unnumbered. Type locality: "between the Hasdere and Doğanca Villages in Gazipaşa - Antalya, (Turkey) 390 m a.s.l." Zoobank publication registration: F28A9E7F-5715-4C71-9A47-3DCCB5E1686F

Lyciasalamandra atifi godmanni Oǧuz, Göçmen, and Yalçinkaya, 2016, South-west. J. Hortic. Biol. Environ., 7:: 102. Holotype: ZMADYU 2013/18-6, by original designation. Type locality: "Selge, Antalya, Turkey, 482 m. a.s.l."

Lyciasalamandra atifi veithi Oǧuz, Göçmen, and Yalçinkaya, 2016, South-west. J. Hortic. Biol. Environ., 7: 105. Holotype: ZMADYU 2013/20-1, by original designation. Type locality: "Dikmen village, Akseki, Antalya, Turkey, 889 m a.s.l."

Lyciasalamandra atifi kunti Oǧuz, Göçmen, and Yalçinkaya, 2016, South-west. J. Hortic. Biol. Environ., 7: 106. Holotype: ZMADYU 2012/46-7, by original designation. Type locality: "Güzelbağ, Turkey, 829 m a.s.l."

Common Names

Atif's Salamander (Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 243).

Atif's Salamander (Lyciasalamandra atifi atifi: Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 252).

Selge Salamander (Lyciasalamandra atifi godmanni: Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 253).

Dikmen Salamander (Lyciasalamandra atifi veithi: Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 254).

Güzelbag Salamander (Lyciasalamandra atifi kunti: Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 254).

Cebireis Salamander (Lyciasalamandra atifi bayrami: Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 254).

Gazipasa Salamander (Lyciasalamandra atifi oezi: Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 255).

Distribution

Along the Taurus range from the region of Akyaka (Muğla) in the West to Gazipaşa (Antalya) in the East, southern Anatolia, Türkiye, 190–1300 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Türkiye

Endemic: Türkiye

Comment

See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 602. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 214, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Yildiz and Akman, 2015, Herpetozoa, Wien, 28: 3–13, discussed range and geographic variation, culminating in the recognition of two subspecies. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 243–244, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Oǧuz, Göçmen, and Yalçinkaya, 2016, South-west. J. Hortic. Biol. Environ., 7: 61–113, reported on geographic variation in serology and morphology which resulted in the recognition of a total of five subspecies. Oǧuz, Kariş, Göçmen, Veith, and Godmann, 2018, Biharean Biol., 12: 118–120, provided a record of Lyciasalamandra atifi veithi from Ürünlü village, Ibradı district, Antalya, Türkiye. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 177, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology, a range map, as well as a photograph. Yaşar, Çiçek, Mulder, and Tok, 2021, North-West. J. Zool., Romania, 17(e201512): 232–275, discussed and grid-mapped the range in Türkiye. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 252–255, provided subspecies accounts, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Bülbül, Özkan, Zaman, Güngör, and Koç-Gür, 2024, Biol. Bull., 51 (Suppl. 1): 160–165, provided a northernmost record in southern Isparta, Türkiye, and a dot map for the species.

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