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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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Uraeotyphlus oxyurus (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Ichthyophiidae > Genus: Uraeotyphlus > Species: Uraeotyphlus oxyurus

Caecilia oxyura Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 280. Syntypes: Presumably MNHNP; MNHNP 4271 (2 specimens) are syntypes according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 4, as is RMNH 2414. Measurement given in original description for just one specimen, presumably one of the MNHNP specimens. MNHNP 4271A designated lectotype by Lescure, 1988, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Sect. A, Zool., 10: 61; this reported as 4271B by Gassó Miracle, van den Hoek Ostende, and Arntzen, 2007, Zootaxa, 1482: 34. Type locality: "Côte du Malabar", India. Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 8, noted the imprecision of this type locality.

Uraeotyphlus oxyurus — Peters, 1880 "1879", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879: 933.

Common Names

Red Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 26; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 133).

Sharp-nosed Caecilian (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 16).

Dark-brown Caecilian (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 91).

Pale-throated Caecilian (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 91).

Sharp-tailed Caecilian (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 91).

Distribution

Tamil Nadu (Anaimalai and Tinnevelly Hills) and Kerala (Cochin, Wynaad, Malabar coast, and Trichur), India.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 30, Bhatta, 1998, J. Biosciences, Bangalore, 23: 73–85, and Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 198, provided brief accounts. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 91, provided an account. A brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 190. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted one larval description in the literature.

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