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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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Bolitoglossa platydactyla (Gray, 1831)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Bolitoglossa > Species: Bolitoglossa platydactyla

Salamandra variegata Gray in Cuvier, 1831, Animal Kingdom (Griffith), 9: 107. Syntypes: BMNH 1946.9.6.18 (formerly 1.111.11.1a) (a specimen of Bolitoglossa mexicana) and 1946.9.6.16 (formerly 1848.8.16.24) (a specimen of Bolitoglossa platydactyla, according to D.B. Wake in Thireau, 1986, Cat. Types Urodeles Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., Rev. Crit.: 41. BMNH 1848.8.16.24 designated lectotype by García-París, Parra-Olea, Brame, and Wake, 2002, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 16: 61. Type locality: Mexico; restricted to "Jalapa", Veracruz, Mexico by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 348. Primary homonym of Salamandra variegata Bory, 1828 (= Triturus marmoratus).

Salamandra platydactylus Gray, 1831, in Cuvier, Animal Kingdom (Griffith), 9—Appendix: 107. Replacement name for Salamandra variegata Gray, 1831.

Oedipus platydactylus — Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 58, 93.

Oedipus variegatus — Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 48.

Geotriton carbonarius Cope, 1861 "1860", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 12: 373. Syntypes: ANSP 503–04, according to Fowler and Dunn, 1917, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 69: 21; Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 347. Type locality: None given; but data with types is "Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico." Synonymy (with Salamandra variegata) by Fowler and Dunn, 1917, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 69: 21, and García-París, Parra-Olea, Brame, and Wake, 2002, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 16: 61.

Oedipus carbonarius — Cope, 1869, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 21: 103.

Spelerpes variegatus — Strauch, 1870, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, Ser. 7, 16 (4): 84.

Bolitoglossa platydactyla — Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 219.

Bolitoglossa (Bolitoglossa) platydactyla — Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 335.

English Names

Broadfoot Mushroomtongue Salamander (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 10; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 30).

Broad-footed Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 29).

Jalapa Mushroomtongue Salamander (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 65414).

Distribution

Tropical forests and savannas of southern Tamaulipas and eastern San Luis Potosí and Queretaro south through Hidalgo to southern Veracruz, Puebla, Oaxaca, and extreme northeastern Chiapas, Mexico, 140 to 1726 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the subgenus Bolitoglossa of Parra-Olea, García-París, and Wake, 2004, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 81: 335, formerly the Bolitoglossa mexicana group. Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén, and Salazar-Arenas, 2000, Herpetol. Rev., 31: 259, provided the first report for Puebla. García-París, Parra-Olea, Brame, and Wake, 2002, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 16: 43–71, regarded this species to be the sister taxon of a group composed of Bolitoglossa lignicolor, Bolitoglossa odonnelli, Bolitoglossa alberchi, Bolitoglossa mombachoensis, Bolitoglossa striatula, Bolitoglossa yucatana, and Bolitoglossa mexicana; they also discussed the difficult taxonomic history of this species. Hernández-Salinas, Ramírez-Bautista, and Leyte-Manrique, 2008, Herpetol. Rev., 39: 231, provided a second record for the state of Hidalgo and briefly discussed the range in that state. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 638. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2013, Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí : 23–24, provided an account for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 40–69, compared this species with others from Central America and provided a map and photograph. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 309, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Farr, Sosa-Tobar, Ugalde-Rodríguez, Vite-Ramírez, and Lazcano, 2016, Herpetol. Rev., 47: 244–245, provided a record from the municipality of Altamira, Tamaulipas, Mexico, about 146 km to the southeast of Gomez Farias, the nearest locality. See account by Cázares-Hernández, Molohua Tzitzihua, Méndez Quiahua, Quiahua Colotl, Temoxtle Marquez, Rodriguez Merino, and Apale Pacheco, 2018, Tlaconetes: 1–92, for photos, habitat, life history, and conservation. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2016, Amph. Rept. Hidalgo: 330–331, provided a brief account and map for Hidalgo, Mexico. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 654–656, provided an account summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Tepos-Ramírez, Garduño-Fonseca, Peralta-Robles, García-Rubio, and Cervantes Jiménez, 2023, Check List, 19: 269–292, discussed the distribution and conservation status of the species in Queretaro, Mexico.

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