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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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Boulengerula niedeni Müller, Measey, Loader, and Malonza, 2005

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Herpelidae > Genus: Boulengerula > Species: Boulengerula niedeni

Boulengerula niedeni Müller, Measey, Loader, and Malonza, 2005, Zootaxa, 1004: 39. Holotype: NMK A/4294, by original designation. Type locality: "approximately 100 m behind the matatu (bus) terminus at Mwalangi shopping centre, Sagalla Hills, Taita-Taveta District, Kenya . . . . dug up from underneath a banana plant on a local shambe (small agricultural holding) at approximately 1080 m above sea leve (S03° 30.76′, E38° 34.59′)".

Common Names

Sagalla Caecilian (Measey, Malonza, and Muchai, 2009, Amph. Taita Hills: 64).

Distribution

Known only from Sagalla Hills, an isolated mountain block of the Taita Hills in southern Kenya, 1000 to 1550 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Kenya

Endemic: Kenya

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: 607. Malonza, Lötters, and Measey, 2010, J. E. Afr. Nat. Hist., 99: 50-51, commented on morphology, range, habitat, and life history. Measey, Malonza, and Muchai, 2009, Amph. Taita Hills: 64-66, provided a brief account and photograph. Harper, Measey, Patrick, Menegon, and Vonesh, 2010, Field Guide Amph. E. Arc Mts. Tanzania and Kenya: 302–303, provided a brief account and photograph. Spawls, Wasonga, and Drewes, 2019, Amph. Kenya: 52, provided a photograph, range map, and brief characterization. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 28–29, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Marquis, Mashanga, Tapley, Wearn, Couchman, Gumbs, Gray, Owen, and Rowcliffe, 2024, Herpetol. J., 34: 163–171, reported on habitat type and occupancy.

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