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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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Philautus kempii (Annandale, 1912)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Philautus > Species: Philautus kempii

Megalophrys kempii Annandale, 1912, Rec. Indian Mus., 8: 20. Holotype: ZSIC 17013 (a 15 mm SVL subadult). Type locality: "Upper Rotung (2,000 ft.)", Abor Hills, Arunachal Pradesh, India (region claimed by Tibet, China).

Panophrys kempii — Rao and Yang, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 98-99. Tentative combination. Based on specimens of Xenophrys sp.

Megophrys (Xenophrys) kempii — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14. Based on specimens of Xenophrys sp.

Megophrys kempii — Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 116. Based on specimens of Xenophrys sp.

Xenophrys kempii — Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 23, by implication. Based on specimens of Xenophrys sp.

Philautus kempii — Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 17.

Aquixalus kempii — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 717.

Liuixalus kempii — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 512.

English Names

Kemp's Spadefoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86).

Kemp's Horned Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 116).

Kemp's Bush Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 103).

Kemp's Small Treefrog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 431).

Kemp's Shrubfrog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 42).

Upper Rotung Shrub Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 12).

Distribution

Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India, to extreme eastern Xizang, China; possibly in adjacent Myanmar (Kachin or Sagaing).

Geographic Occurrence

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

Likely/Controversially Present: Myanmar

Comment

Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 17, noted that the type specimen of this nominal species of Xenophrys is a Philautus, Philautus kempii (Annandale, 1912), leaving the Xenophrys taxon without a name, should that taxon actually be distinct from Xenophrys boettgeri, from which it was was considered doubtfully distinct (Annandale, 1917, Mem. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 6: 155) or a synonym (Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 42).. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature (as Megophrys kempii). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 717–719, provided an account for China and a spot map, and implied its inclusion in what is currently referred to as Theloderma (DRF). Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 431, provided a brief account (as Aquixalus kempii). Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 512, provided an account (as Liuixalus kempii), photographs, and a range map for China. See account by Che, Jiang, Yan, and Zhang, 2020, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 110–111 (as Xenophrys kempii). Garg, Suyesh, Das, Bee, and Biju, 2021, PeerJ, 9 (e10791): 2, doubted that either this species is actually a member of Philautus or possibly a synonym of some non-Philautus species; it is unclear which from their statement. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 42, briefly discussed habitat, possible range, and identification in Myanmar.

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