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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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Triturus ivanbureschi Arntzen and Wielstra, 2013

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Triturus > Species: Triturus ivanbureschi

Triton cristatus karelinii forma bureschi Wolterstorff, 1925, Abh. Ber. Mus. Nat. Heimatkd. Magdeburg, 4: 256. Syntypes: MM, 3 specimens by original designation; destroyed in W.W.II according to Brame and Gorham, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 97. Type locality: "bei Sofia", Bulgaria; given as Pond in Prince Boris Garden, Sofia, Bulgaria, by Scharlinski, 1939, Abh. Ber. Mus. Nat. Heimatkd. Magdeburg, 7: 37. Unavailable tetranominal.

Triton cristatus karelini forma byzanthina Wolterstorff, 1923, Bl. Aquar. Terrarienkd., Stuttgart, 34: 125. Holotype: Not stated, presumably MM and if so, destroyed in W.W.II. Type locality: "Konstantinople, europäische Seite des Bosporus", Turkey. Unavailable tetranominal.

Triturus cristatus karelinii forma rilaica Buresch and Zonkov, 1941, Bull. Inst. R. Hist. Nat. Sophia, 14: 178, 211. Holotype: NZMS (as MSB), by original designation. Type locality: Springs on Rila Mountains, Tscham-Kuria, 1350 meters, Bulgaria. Unavailable tetranominal. Synonymy by Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 382.

Triturus karelinii arntzeni Litvinchuk, Borkin, Džukić and Kalezić in Litvinchuk, Borkin, Džukić, Kalezić, Khalturin, and Rosanov, 1999, Russ. J. Herpetol., 6: 159. Holotype: ZISP 6121, by original designation. Type locality: "vicinity of the village Vrtovac (43° 25´ N, 22° 28´ E, UTM FP10), altitude 400 m above sea level", Serbia. Synonymy by Wielstra, Litvinchuk, Naumov, Tzankov, and Arntzen, 2013, Zootaxa, 3682 : 443. Consideration as a hybrid population of Triturus macedonicus X Triturus ivanbureschi by Wielstra and Arntzen, 2014, Zootaxa, 3802: 381.

Triturus (Triturus) karelinii arntzeni — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 67. See comment above.

Triturus arntzeni — Espregueira Themudo, Wielstra, and Arntzen, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 52: 328. See comment above.

Triturus ivanbureschi Arntzen and Wielstra in Wielstra, Litvinchuk, Naumov, Tzankov, and Arntzen, 2013, Zootaxa, 3682: 448. Holotype. RMNH.RENA.47200, by original designation. Type locality: "Ostar Kamak, Bulgaria (coordinates: 41.878°N, 25.853°E, elevation: 240 meter)".

English Names

Buresch's Crested Newt (Speybroeck, Beukema, Bok, and Van Der Voort, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Brit. Eur.: 97).

Balkan–Anatolian Crest Newt (Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 346).

Balkan Crested Newt (Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 138).

Distribution

South-eastern Balkan Peninsula, covering most of Bulgaria, the eastern parts of Greece, North Macedonia, and Serbia, as well as European and western Asiatic Turkey; an isolated population in Serbia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey

Comment

The sister species of Triturus karelini according to the original publication (prior to the naming of Triturus anatolicus), and previously confused with that species. Naumov, 2005, Acta Zool. Bulgarica, 57: 391, provided records for Bulgaria (as Triturus karelini). Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 134–135, provided a brief account, photo, and map. Wielstra, Sillero, Vörös, and Arntzen, 2014, Amphibia-Reptilia, 35: 376-381, provided a dot map. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 346–348, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Arntzen, Wielstra, and Wallis, 2014, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 113: 604–622, reported on hybrid/contact zones with Triturus cristatus, Triturus carnifex, and Triturus macedonicus. Populations from northern Anatolia now referred to Triturus anatolicus. Speybroeck, Beukema, Bok, and Van Der Voort, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Brit. Eur.: 97–101, provided a brief account and distribution map. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 138, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology, a range map, as well as a photograph. Yaşar, Çiçek, Mulder, and Tok, 2021, North-West. J. Zool., Romania, 17(e201512): 232–275, discussed and grid-mapped the range in Turkey. Mollov, Natchev, Koynova, Kambourov, Rashkov, Dimitrov, Todorov, Petrova, Vladov, and Uzunov, 2022, Ecol. Balkanica, Spec. Edit. 5: 43–74, discussed the presence of this species in protected areas of southeastern Bulgaria. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 382–383, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Gaczorek, Marszałek, Dudek, Arntzen, Wielstra, and Babik, 2023, Mol. Ecol., 32: 867–880, reported on introgression of the MHC gene across hybrid zones with Triturus anatolicus, Triturus cristatus, and Triturus macedonicus.

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