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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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Aglyptodactylus Boulenger, 1918

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Mantellidae > Subfamily: Laliostominae > Genus: Aglyptodactylus

6 species

Aglyptodactylus Boulenger, 1918, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1918: 257. Type species: Limnodytes madagascariensis Duméril, 1853, by monotypy.

Aglyptodactylus — Laurent, 1943, Bull. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg., 19: 1-16.

English Names

Madagascar Jumping Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 110).

Distribution

Madagascar.

Comment

Blommers-Schlösser, 1979, Beaufortia, 29: 65-66, considered Aglyptodactylus more closely related to Boophis, in Rhacophoridae, than to Mantellinae, where it had been placed by Laurent, 1943, Bull. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg., 19: 1-16. See Blommers-Schlösser, 1978, Genetica, 48: 23-40, for karyotypes. See account by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 342-346. See also Glaw and Vences, 1992, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar: 61-62. Transferred from Rhacophorinae to Mantellinae by Channing, 1989, S. Afr. J. Zool., 24: 116-131; this disputed by Blommers-Schlösser, 1993, Ethol. Ecol. Evol., 5: 199-203, and Glaw and Vences, 1994, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 2: 82, who retained it in the Rhacophorinae. Glaw, Vences, and Böhme, 1998, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 36: 17-37, suggested that Aglyptodactylus is a ranine close to Madagascan Tomopterna (now Laliostoma). Richards and Moore, 1998, Herpetol. J., 8: 41-46, discussed phylogenetics within the family and suggested that Tomopterna labrosa, nominally a Madagascan ranine, was within the rhacophorine clade. Wilkinson and Drewes, 2000, Contemp. Herpetol., 2000: 1-14, suggested that Aglyptodactylus is close to Mantidactylus. Richards, Nussbaum, and Raxworthy, 2000, Afr. J. Herpetol., 49: 23-32, placed Aglyptodactylus as possibly the sister taxon of Boophis, but more assuredly, with Boophis, in the area of Mantidactylus. See comment under Laliostoma. Vences and Glaw, 2006, in Vences et al. (eds.), Calls Frogs Madagascar: 4, noted an undescribed species in southeastern Madgascar. Köhler, Glaw, Pabijan, and Vences, 2015, Zootaxa, 4006: 401–438, revised the genus and provided accounts for the species and provided a phylogeny (Aglyptodactylus madagascariensis + Aglyptodactylus australis) + (Aglyptodactylus laticeps + (Aglyptodactylus chorus + (Aglyptodactylus inguinalis + Aglyptodactylus securifer)))

Contained taxa (6 sp.):

Aglyptodactylus australis Köhler, Glaw, Pabijan, and Vences, 2015

Aglyptodactylus chorus Köhler, Glaw, Pabijan, and Vences, 2015

Aglyptodactylus inguinalis Günther, 1877

Aglyptodactylus laticeps Glaw, Vences, and Böhme, 1998

Aglyptodactylus madagascariensis (Duméril, 1853)

Aglyptodactylus securifer Glaw, Vences, and Böhme, 1998

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