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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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Plethodon jordani Blatchley, 1901

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Plethodontinae > Genus: Plethodon > Species: Plethodon jordani

Plethodon jordani Blatchley, 1901, Annu. Rep. Dept. Geol. Nat. Res. Indiana for 1900, 25: 762. Type(s): Originally in collection of W.S. Blatchley; now lost, according to Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 145. Type locality: "Sevier County, Tennessee", USA; given as "Mt. Collins and Indian Pass, Sevier Co., Tenn[essee].", USA, by Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 145; given as "Mt. Collins and Indian Pass, 3000–5000 feet altitude, Sevier Co., Tenn[essee]", USA by Stejneger and Barbour, 1933, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 3: 12.

Plethodon jordani jordani — Hairston, 1950, Copeia, 1950: 271.

Plethodon (Plethodon) jordani — Vieites, Nieto-Roman, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 632, by implication.

English Names

Jordan Salamander (Plethodon jordani: Brimley, 1907, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 23: 155).

Jordan's Salamander (Plethodon jordani: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 35-36; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 8; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 33; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 8; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 27).

Jordan's Redcheek Salamander (Plethodon jordani: Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 14).

Appalachian Woodland Salamander (Plethodon jordani: Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 280).

Red-cheeked Salamander (Plethodon jordani jordani: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 35-36; Plethodon jordani: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 261; Highton and Peabody, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 61; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 21; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 30; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 31).

Red-necked Salamander (Plethodon jordani: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 261).

Distribution

Higher elevations of the Great Smoky Mountains of extreme western North Carolina and extreme eastern Tennessee; extreme western South Carolina and adjancent Georgia, USA.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - Georgia, United States of America - North Carolina, United States of America - South Carolina, United States of America - Tennessee

Endemic: United States of America

Comment

In the Plethodon glutinosus group, Plethodon jordani complex. See Plethodon teyahalee. See account in Highton and Peabody, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 31–93, who documented the history of confusion of this species with several others, and by Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 367–374. Beamer and Lannoo, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 816–818, provided a detailed account that summarized the biology and conservation literature. Weisrock and Larson, 2006, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 89: 25–51, discussed the phylogenetic status of this species. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 639. Moskwik, 2014, J. Biogeograph., 41: 1957–1966, documented in this species significant elevational range changes since the 1940s. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 403, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 927–930, provided an account summarizing systematics, morphology, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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