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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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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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Chthonerpeton Peters, 1880

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Typhlonectidae > Genus: Chthonerpeton

10 species

Chthonerpeton Peters, 1880 "1879", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879: 940. Type species: Siphonops indistinctus Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862 "1861", by monotypy.

Common Names

Peters' Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 26).

присосковые червяги (Russian: Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 17).

Distribution

Southern Brazil, Uruguay, and adjacent Argentina; Amazonian Ecuador; presumably in adjacent southern Paraguay.

Comment

Nussbaum, 1986, Rev. Suisse Zool., 93: 917, delimited two species groups. Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 39-78 [48, 70], diagnosed the taxon, suggested that the monophyly of this taxon remains undocumented, and noted that a number of species remain to be described. Santos, Pineschi, and Zaher, 2025, Zootaxa, 5728: 561–570, provided an identification key and distribution map for the species.

Contained taxa (10 sp.):

Chthonerpeton arii Cascon and Lima-Verde, 1994

Chthonerpeton braestrupi Taylor, 1968

Chthonerpeton exile Nussbaum and Wilkinson, 1987

Chthonerpeton indistinctum (Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862)

Chthonerpeton markwilkinsoni Santos, Pineschi, and Zaher, 2025

Chthonerpeton noctinectes Silva, Britto-Pereira, and Caramaschi, 2003

Chthonerpeton onorei Nussbaum, 1986

Chthonerpeton perissodus Nussbaum and Wilkinson, 1987

Chthonerpeton tremembe Maciel, Leite, Silva-Leite, Leite, and Cascon, 2015

Chthonerpeton viviparum Parker and Wettstein, 1929

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