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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 braestrupi Taylor, 1968

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

Chthonerpeton braestrupi Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 283. Holotype: ZMUC12 RO-234, by original designation (formerly a syntype of Chthonerpeton indistinctum). Now lost, according to museum records (personal commun., H. Kristensen, 24 Nov. 2010). Type locality: "Brasil (no other locality data)".

Common Names

Braestrup's Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 26).

Distribution

Known only from the imprecise type locality (Brasil), and from Brazil in the state of Rio de Janeiro: 1) the Reserva Ecoloógica de Guapiaçu in the municipality of Cachoeiras de Macacu, 2) Parque Nacional da Restinga de Jurubatiba, and possibly from the municipality of Paracambi, and the municipality of Iguaba Grande, although these last two localities were based on specimens not so far examined closely or formally referred to this species.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Chthonerpeton indistinctum group of Nussbaum, 1986, Rev. Suisse Zool., 93: 917. Almeida-Gomes, Siqueira, Borges, Vrcibradic, Fusinato, and Rocha, 2014, Biota Neotrop., 14 (3): 1–15, reported the species from the Reserva Ecoloógica de Guapiaçu, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dorigo, Vrcibradic, and Rocha, 2018, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 58(e20185805): 1–11, discussed the taxonomic issues with collections of Chthonerpeton braestrupi in Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere, noting that the nominal species could represent a species complex. Carmo, Miguel, Pinna, Fernandes, and Woitovicz-Cardoso, 2019, Biota Neotrop., 19 (2: e20190727): 1–12, reported the species from the Parque Nacional da Restinga de Jurubatiba, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and discussed its ecological range.

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