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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 vermiculatus (Boulenger, 1900)

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

Ixalus vermiculatus Boulenger, 1900, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 6: 187. Syntypes: (3 specimens) BMNH (1947.2.19.94, originally 1933.4.8.6, by museum records) and Selangor Mus., Kuala Lumpur. BMNH 1947.2.27.43 considered holotype (implied fixation as lectotype) by Dring, 1987, Amphibia-Reptilia, 8: 47, and formally designated lectotype by Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 37, and described by them on page 81. Type locality: "Larut Hills at 4000 feet", Perak, Malaya (Malaysia).

Ixalus brevipes Boulenger, 1908, J. Fed. Malay States Mus., 3: 63. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.6.22 (formerly 1906.2.28.51) according to Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 39. Type locality: "Gunong Tahan, [Pahang,] at 3000 ft. [elevation]", Malaya, Malaysia. Synonymy by Smith, 1930, Bull. Raffles Mus., 3: 116; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 458.

Philautus brevipes — Smith, 1922, J. Fed. Malay States Mus., 10: 279.

Philautus vermiculatus — Smith, 1930, Bull. Raffles Mus., 3: 115; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 458.

Rhacophorus (Philautus) brevipes — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 54, 80.

Rhacophorus (Philautus) vermiculatus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 95.

Philautus (Philautus) vermiculatus — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 37.

English Names

Perak Bubble-nest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 113).

Vermiculate Bushfrog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 150).

Vermiculated Bush Frog (Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 416).

Vermiculated Shrub Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 58).

Distribution

Extreme southern peninsular Thailand (Narathiwat Province) and West Malaysia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Malaysia, Malaysia, West (Peninsular), Thailand

Comment

Discussed by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 458–459. See accounts in Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 95–96, and Dring, 1979, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Zool., 34: 208–210 (who placed it in a different group of species from Philautus aurifasciatus). Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 86, regarded this taxon as likely conspecific with Philautus aurifasciatus. See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 122–123, to compare this species to other rhacophorids of the Sunda Shelf region. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 150–151, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Grismer, Chan, Grismer, Wood, and Ahmad, 2010, Russ. J. Herpetol., 17: 147–160, reported localities from the Banjaran Bintang Mountains, northwestern peninsular Malaysia. Sumarli, Grismer, Anuar, Muin, and Quah, 2015, Check List, 11(4, Art. 1679): 14 reported specimens from Mount Tebu, Terregganu, West Malaysia, and briefly reported on their morphology and habitat. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 416–417, provided a brief account (description, photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 58, suggested that records from Thailand of Philautus aurifasciatus appear to be based on misidentifications of this species. See that record for relevant literature.

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