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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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Lyciasalamandra finikensis (Başoğlu and Atatür, 1976 "1975")

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

Mertensiella luschani finikensis Başoğlu and Atatür, 1976 "1975", Istanbul Univ. Fen. Fak. Mec., Seri B, 40: 90. Holotype: SZE 5/1976.7, by original designation. Type locality: "hill-like terrain lying just on the northern border of the town (Finike)", southwestern Anatolia, Türkiye.

Lyciasalamandra luschani finikensis — Veith, Göçmen, Sotiropoulos, Kieren, Godmann, and Steinfartz, 2016, Amphibia-Reptilia, 37: 376.

Lyciasalamandra finiskensis — Scott, Najafi-Majd, Caynak, Gidiş, Kaya, and Shaffer, 2024 "2025", Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 202 (108205): 1.

Common Names

Finike Salamander (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 238).

Distribution

Pine forest and shrulands in the Başkoz River Valley of the Finike region (Finike, Turunçova, and Gölcük Tepesi), below 800 m elevation, north to Arif (Çatallar) east to Çatal Tepesi, Türkiye.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Türkiye

Endemic: Türkiye

Comment

Formally levated from subspecies status under Lyciasalamandra luschani by Scott, Najafi-Majd, Caynak, Gidiş, Kaya, and Shaffer, 2024 "2025", Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 202 (108205): 1–11, who reported on phylogenetics. Moravec, 1997, in Böhme et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Bonn.: 284, considered this taxon a synonym of Mertensiella luschani helverseni, but this was implicitly not accepted by Veith and Steinfartz, 2004, Salamandra, 40: 76. Beukema, de Pous, and Brakels, 2009, Z. Feldherpetol., 16: 115–126, discussed the range of Lyciasalamandra luschani finikensis. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 186–212, provided an account (as Lyciasalamandra luschani finikensis), summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution. See Lyciasalamandra luschani record for other, possibly relevant literature.

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