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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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Paramesotriton deloustali (Bourret, 1934)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Paramesotriton > Species: Paramesotriton deloustali

Mesotriton deloustali Bourret, 1934, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1934: 84. Syntypes: Not stated; LZUH 226, 228, 257, and 287 according to Brame and Gorham, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 66; these now MNHNP 1935.119, and possibly MNHNP 1935.120, 1948.110–111 according to Thireau, 1986, Cat. Types Urodeles Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., Rev. Crit.: 28–29; Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 9, reported MNHNP 1935.119 as a 'paratype'. Bour, Ohler, and Dubois, 2009, Alytes, 26: 153–166, discussed the tortured literature history and related errors and concluded that MNHNP 1935.119–120 and 1948.110 are unquestionably syntypes of which they designated 1935.119 as lectotype. Type locality: "Tam-Dao, à 900 m d'altitude", Tonkin, Vietnam; corrected to "the torrent of the hill station of Tam Dao (. . . ), province of Vinh Phuc, Vietnam (at an altitude of approximately 900 meters . . .".

Pachytriton deloustali — Chang, 1935, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 7: 95.

Paramesotriton deloustali — Chang, 1935, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 60: 425.

Paramesotriton (Paramesotriton) deloustali — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 49, 65.

English Names

Vietnam Warty Newt (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35).

Tam Dao Newt (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 33).

Vietnamese Salamander (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 9).

Tam Dao Salamander (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 605).

Tam Dao Warty Newt (Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 288).

Distribution

Montane regions of northern Vietnam in the provinces of Lao Cai, Son La, Ha Giang, Tuyen Quang, Bac Kan, Quang Ninh and Vinh Phuc, 600–1900 m elevations; reported from adjacent Hekou County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southern Yunnan Province, China.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Vietnam

Comment

See accounts by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 148–150; and Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 331–334. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 100, commented on the range. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 147, provided a photograph. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 132–133, provided a brief account, figure, and map. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 605. Nguyen, Nguyen, Hồ, Le, and Nguyen, 2009, Tạp chí Công nghệ Sinh học, 7: 325–333, reported on the species in Vietnam. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 161, provided a brief account, range map, and photograph and suggested that the population reported from Lao Cai, Vietnam, represents and unnamed species. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 288–290, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Zhang, Han, Ye, Ni, Li, Yao, and Xu, 2018, Conserv. Genet. Resources, 10: 552–554, reported on the entire mtDNA genome and provided a record from Yunnan, China, near the Vietnam border, but did not provide details on the location. Reported from Son La Province, northwestern Vietnam, by Pham, Nguyen, Pham, Sung, Le, Vaxong, and Ziegler, 2022, Herpetol. Notes, 15: 169–178, who provided descriptive notes on the new specimens. Wei, Liu, Wen, Zhang, Wang, and Yuan, 2021, Chinese J. Zool., 56: 617–623, discussed morphology, molecular phylogenetics and habitat in southern Yunnan, China. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 448–450, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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