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* = "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
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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"
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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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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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Liua shihi (Liu, 1950)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Hynobiidae > Subfamily: Hynobiinae > Genus: Liua > Species: Liua shihi

Hynobius shihi Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 77. Holotype: FMNH 49384, by original designation. Type locality: "Chihsinling, Tachangsze, eastern Szechwan [= Sichuan], China".

Ranodon wushanensis Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1960, Acta Zool. Sinica, 12: 278. Holotype: CIB 571589, by original designation. Type locality: "Kwan-yang, Wushan [County], Szechwan [= Sichuan]" Province, China. Synonymy by Risch and Thorn, 1982 "1981", Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Toulouse, 117: 171.

Ranodon shihi — Risch and Thorn, 1982 "1981", Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Toulouse, 117: 171. Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 48; Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 113.

Liua wushanensis — Zhao and Hu, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (2): 30.

Liua shihi — Zhao, 1984, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 3 (1): 40. Wang, Wang, Fang, and Wu, 2005, J. Zhejiang Univ., Sci., 32: 79; Zhang, Chen, Zhou, Liu, Wang, Papenfuss, Wake, and Qu, 2006, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103: 7360-7365.

Liuia shihi — Brame, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 565.

Ranodon (Liua) shihi — Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 116.

English Names

Sichuan Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28).

Wushan Salamander (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 34).

Distribution

Montane Chonqing (Chengkou, Wushan, and Wushi), Sichuan (Wangyuan), western Hubei (Badong, Shennongjia, and Yichang), southern Henan (Shangcheng), and southern Shaanxi, China, 900–2350 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

See account, figure, and map by Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 34, and Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 104-106 (as Liua shihi). Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 87, Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 206-213, and Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 62, provided brief accounts. See review by Kuzmin and Thiesmeier, 2001, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 6: 113-120. See comment under Liua shihi. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Batrachuperus shihi) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 637. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 60-61, provided a brief account (as Ranodon shihi) including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 66–67, provided an account (as Ranodon shihi), photographs, and map for China. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 79–80, provided a brief account, photo, and map. Xiong, Liu, and Zhang, 2016, Asian Herpetol. Res., 7: 112–121, compared the skull of this species with Liua tsinpaensis. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 232–234, provided an accounts, photographs, and range map (as Ranodon (Liua) shihi). See comments by Zhao, Wang, Wang, Liu, and Lu, 2015, J. Henan Normal Univ. (Nat. Sci.), 46: 705–711. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 103–105, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 62–63, provided an account, covering systematics, life history, and distribution (including a polygon map). Tighe, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 654: 18, briefly discussed the type series.

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