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* = "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.
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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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Ichthyophis glutinosus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Ichthyophiidae > Genus: Ichthyophis > Species: Ichthyophis glutinosus

Caecilia glutinosa Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, 1: 229. Holotype: NHRM according to Andersson, 1899, Bih. K. Svenska Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 24 (IV, art. 6): 6, the animal figured by Linnaeus, 1754, Mus. Adophi Friderici, 1: 19, pl 4, fig. 1), now NHRM 163 according to museum records. (See http://linnaeus.nrm.se/zool/herp/madamph.html.en for image of type.) Type locality: "Habitat in Indiis". Placed on Official List of Specific Names in Zoology by Opinion 1604, Anonymous, 1990, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 47: 166.

Coecilia viscosa Latreille In Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801 "An. X", Hist. Nat. Rept., 4: 238. Replacement name for Caecilia glutinosa. Synonymy by Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 286; Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 58.

Ichthyophis glutinosus — Fitzinger, 1826, Neue Class. Rept.: 36. Cantor, 1847, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 16: 1058; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 89; Boulenger, 1890, Fauna Brit. India, Rept. Batr.: 515.

Epicrium glutinosum — Wagler, 1828, Isis von Oken, 21: 740-744. Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 286.

Caecilia (Ichthyophis) glutinosa — Van der Hoeven, 1833, Handb. Dierkd., 2: 303, by implication.

Ichthyophis (Epicrium) glutinosus — Bourret, 1927, Fauna Indochine, Vert., 3: 252.

Ichthyophis forcarti Taylor, 1965, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 46: 283. Holotype: NHMB 4411, by original designation. Type locality: "Ceylon" (= Sri Lanka). Synonymy by Nussbaum and Gans, 1983 "1980", Spolia Zeylan., 35: 144).

English Names

White-bellied Caecilia (Cuvier, 1831, Animal Kingdom (M'Murtrie), 2: 74).

White-bellied Caecilian (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 130).

Glutinous Caecilia (Gray, 1831, in Cuvier, Animal Kingdom (Griffith), 9—Appendix: 110).

Sticky Caecilian (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 16).

Ceylon Caecilian (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 25).

Common Yellow-banded Caecilian (de Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 129).

Distribution

Central and southern Sri Lanka.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Sri Lanka

Endemic: Sri Lanka

Comment

See accounts by Nussbaum and Gans, 1983 "1980", Spolia Zeylan., 35: 137–154; Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996, Amph. Fauna Sri Lanka: 18; and Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 22–23. Records of this species outside of the stated range are attributable to other species. Ravichandran, Gower, and Wilkinson, 2003, Zootaxa, 350: 6, doubted the Indian record of Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 172: 32–35, as did Dutta, 2003 "2002", Hamadryad, 27: 156–157, who discussed previous misidentifications on which records from India are based. Gower, Bahir, Mapatuna, Pethiyagoda, Raheem, and Wilkinson, 2005, Raffles Bull. Zool., Suppl., 12: 153–161, suggested that a cryptic species exists under this name from Wegela, Sri Lanka, which is more closely related to Ichthyophis orthoplicatus than to Ichthyophis glutinosus, with Ichthyophis forcarti possibly being the available name. D. Gower in Grismer and Pan, 2008, Herpetol. Rev., 39: 270–281, suggested that the taxonmic distinctiveness of Ichthyophis monochrous, Ichthyophis glutinosus, Ichthyophis singaporensis, and Ichthyophis paucisulcus needs confirmation via genetic analyses. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 130–131, provided a brief characterization and photograph for specimens in northeastern India they allocated to this species. de Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 129, provided a brief account and color photograph for Sri Lanka. Bopage, Wewelwala, Krvavac, Jovanovic, Safarek, and Pushpamal, 2011, Salamandra, 47: 173–177, reported the species in lowland forest in the Kanneliya Forest of southwestern Sri Lanka.

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