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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.
* = "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
	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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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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Salamandra lanzai Nascetti, Andreone, Capula, and Bullini, 1988

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Salamandrinae > Genus: Salamandra > Species: Salamandra lanzai

Salamandra lanzai Nascetti, Andreone, Capula, and Bullini, 1988, Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 6: 619. Holotype: MSNT A47/1, by original designation. Type locality: "Monviso Massif, 2020 m a. s. l., Cottian Alps, 30 km NW from Saluzzo (Cuneo, Piedmont)", Italy.

Salamandra (Mimandra) lanzai — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 69.

Salamandra (Alpandra) lanzai — Raffaëlli, 2020, Bull. Soc. Herpetol. France, 174: 11.

English Names

Large Alpine Salamander (Stumpel-Rienks, 1992, Ergänzungsband Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., Trivialnamen der Herpetofauna Eur.: 61).

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

Lanza's Alpine Salamander (Grossenbacher, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 67).

Lanza's Salamander (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 231).

Distribution

Alps of the Italy–France border, north of the Monviso, in the Cottian Alps, 1500–2200 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: France, Italy

Comment

See Riberon, Sotiriou, Miaud, Andreone, and Taberlet, 2002, Copeia, 2002: 229–232, who noted the absence of geographic variation in molecular markers. See also discussion of relevant literature and distribution by Grossenbacher, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 66-67. See account by Grossenbacher, 2003, in Grossenbacher and Thiesmeier (eds.), Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., 4(IIB): 1047-1058. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 161, provided a brief account, figure, and map. 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: 606. See detailed account by Lanza, Andreone, Bologna, Corti, and Razzetti, 2007, in Lanza et al. (eds.), Fauna d'Italia, 42 (Amph.): 215-221, for the Italian population. Nöllert and Nöllert, 1992, Die Amph. Eur.: 184, provided a brief account. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 207, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 323–324, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Speybroeck, Beukema, Bok, and Van Der Voort, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Brit. Eur.: 68–70, provided a compact account and distribution map. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 165, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology, a range map, as well as a photograph. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 231–232, provided subspecies accounts, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Giuliano, Seglie, Bergò, Cavalcante, Favelli, Gigio, Bloc, Gaggino, Massara, Pucci, Rastelli, Miaud, and Rizzioli, 2024, Herpetol. J., 45: 35–47, investigated predictive range models for the species and estimated the time of its extinction.

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