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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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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 guangxiensis (Huang, Tang, and Tang, 1983)

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

Trituroides guangxiensis Huang, Tang, and Tang, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (2): 37. Holotype: FU 81501, by original designation. Type locality: "Paiyang shan, Mingjiang People's Commune, Ningming County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, altitude 478 m", China.

Trituroides guanxiensis Huang, Tang, and Tang, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (2): 37. Incorrect original spelling in English abstract.

Paramesotriton guangxiensis — Zhao and Hu, 1984, Stud. Chinese Tailed Amph.: 10.

Paramesotriton guangxiensis — Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 28.

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

English Names

Guangxi Warty Newt (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 50).

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

Distribution

Fuchuan and Fangchen counties, southern Guangxi, China, 470 to 500 m elevation; northeastern part of Cao Bang Province, Vietnam.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

Related to Paramesotriton chinesis (as Trituroides chinensis) according to the original publication. See comment under Paramesotriton fuzhonensis. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 91, Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 50; and Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 328-329. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 28, provided an account (as Paramesotriton guangxiensis). Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 101, provided the Vietnam component of the range statement but did not cite voucher specimens. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 9, noted the Vietnamese locality as Nguyen Binh, Cao Bang. In the Paramesotriton chinensis group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 45 (although they only addressed Chinese species). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2006, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 1: 310-313, provided an account and range 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, discussed the species in Vietnam. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 88, provided a brief account including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 110, provided an account, photographs, and map for China. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 161, provided a brief account, range map, and photograph. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 292–293, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 378–380, provided an account, photograph, and range map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 447–448, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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