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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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Kurixalus pollicaris (Werner, 1914 "1913")

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Kurixalus > Species: Kurixalus pollicaris

Rhacophorus pollicaris Werner, 1914 "1913", Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, 30: 50. Syntypes: NHMW 22881-82, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 28, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 34, ZMH (1 specimen), lost, according to Hallermann, 1998, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 95: 212. Type locality: "Kanshirei" (= Kuantzuling) and "Fuhusho" (= Maobu or Wucheng), Taiwan, China.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) pollicaris — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 129.

Buergeria pollicaris — Liem, 1970, Fieldiana, Zool., 57: 90.

Kurixalus pollicaris — Dufresnes and Litvinchuk, 2022, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 195: 735.

English Names

Taiwan Buerger's Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111).

Distribution

Western and central Taiwan. See comment.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Taiwan

Endemic: Taiwan

Comment

Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 38-39, provided a brief account for Taiwan (as Chirixalus eiffingeri). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 740-745, provided an account (as Kurixalus eiffingeri) and a spot map for China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 444, provided a brief account (as Kurixalus eiffingeri) for China including photographs of specimens. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 520–521, provided an account (as Kurixalus eiffingeri), photographs, and a range map for Taiwan (in the sense of including Kurixalus wangi and Kurixalus beryllinis. Wu, Huang, Tsai, Li, Jhang, and Wu, 2016, ZooKeys, 557: 121–153, provided a range map for Taiwan (as Kurixalus eiffingeri). Guo, Yang, and Li, 2009, Colored Illust. Amph. Rept. Taiwan: 108–109, provided a brief account (as Kurixalus eiffingeri), photographs, and map. Chang, Ma, Chen, and Wu, 2017, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 12: 139–150, reported on karyotype. Dufresnes and Litvinchuk, 2022, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 195: 735, noted that nominal Kurixalus eiffingeri is composed of three mtDNA lineages, one (Kurixalus eiffingeri) from the southern Ryukyus of Japan, one (Kurixalus pollicaris) from central and western Taiwan, and an unnamed species, which they referred to as Kurixalus cf. eiffingeri, from northern Taiwan. They therefor resurrected the name Kurixalus pollicaris from the synonymy of Kurixalus eiffingeri, where it had been placed by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 152. The mtDNA population referred to as Kurixalus cf. eiffingeri (the sister of Kurixalus pollicaris on the basis of mtDNA analysis) remains unnamed.

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