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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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Potomotyphlus kaupii (Berthold, 1859)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Typhlonectidae > Genus: Potomotyphlus > Species: Potomotyphlus kaupii

Caecilia kaupii Berthold, 1859, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 1859: 181. Holotype: ZFMK 27684, according to Böhme and Bischoff, 1984, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 19: 184. Type locality: "Angostura", Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela.

Siphonops kaupii — Keferstein, 1867, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 18: 361.

Caecilia dorsalis Peters, 1877, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1877: 459. Holotype: ZMB 9092, according to Bauer, Good, and Günther, 1993, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 69: 287. Type locality: "Angostura (Ciudad Dolivar [= Ciudad Bolívar]), am Orinoco", Venezuela. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1891, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 8: 457.

Typhlonectes dorsalis — Peters, 1880 "1879", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1879: 941.

Thyphlonectes dorsalis — Fuhrmann, 1914, Mem. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 5: 113, 124.

Chthonerpeton microcephalum Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937, O Campo, 8: 66. Syntypes: Not stated; MNRJ 539 listed as "Tipo" (presumably holotype) by P. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1955, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 42: 407. Type locality: "Matto-Grosso", Brazil; given as "provàlvelmente na parte norte do então Estado de Mato Grosso na região hoje abrangida pelo Território Federal de Rondônia", Brazi, by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 11. Synonymy by Dunn, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 537.

Typhlonectes kaupii — Dunn, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 537; Ginés, 1959, Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 19: 98.

Chthonefpton microcephalum — Travassos, 1955, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 42: xxxv. Error.

Chthonespton microcephalum — Miranda-Ribeiro, 1955, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 42: 392. Error.

Potomotyphlus melanochrus Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 263. Holotype: NHMW 9147, by original designation. Type locality: "Brasil". Synonymy by Nussbaum and Wilkinson, 1989, Herpetol. Monogr., 3: 38.

Potomotyphlus kaupii — Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 257.

Common Names

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

Distribution

Amazon and Orinoco drainage systems of South America: Brazil (states of Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Goiás, Pará and Roraima), Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru and Venezuela (states of Amazonas, Bolívar, and Delta Amacuro); expected in northern Bolivia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Venezuela

Likely/Controversially Present: Bolivia

Comment

Marty, Ravel, Bordage, and Lescure, 2007, Bull. Soc. Herpetol. France, 121: 35–38, reported the species in French Guiana. Lynch, 2000 "1999", Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 334, mapped distribution in Colombia. Taylor and Peters, 1974, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 50: 337, commented on the single Ecuadorian specimen known at the time from Pucayacú, Pastaza Province. Cintra, Silva, Gonçalves, and Silva, 2010, Herpetol. Rev., 41: 242, provided a record for the state of Maranhão, Brazil. Maciel and Hoogmoed, 2011, Zootaxa, 2984: 33–38, provided a detailed account and spot map. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 135, for comments on range and literature. Ledesma, 2019, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 924: 1–23, reviewed the taxon, nomenclature, and its literature. Señaris and Rojas-Runjaic, 2020, in Rull and Carnaval (eds.), Neotrop. Divers. Patterns Process.: 571–632, commented on range and conservation status in the Venezuelan Guayana. Vaz-Silva, Maciel, Nomura, Morais, Guerra Batista, Santos, Andrade, Oliveira, Brandão, and Bastos, 2020, Guia Ident. Anf. Goiás e Dist. Fed. Brasil Central: 185, provided an account for Goiás, Brazil.

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