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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.
* = "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
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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"
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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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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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Discoglossus sardus Tschudi, 1837

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Alytidae > Genus: Discoglossus > Species: Discoglossus sardus

Discoglossus sardus Tschudi In Otth, 1837, Neue Denkschr. Allg. Schweiz. Ges. Naturwiss., 1: 8. Type(s): Not designated although presumably originally in MHNN or MZUT. Type locality: "Sardinien, wahrescheinlich auch die übrigen mediterranischen Länder".

Pseudis sardoa Gené, 1839, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, Ser. 2, 1: 278. Types(s): Not designated, presumably MZUT. Type locality: "insulae Sancti Petri, Gallurae, Baragiarum, Ollastrae, etc." Synonymy by Bonaparte, 1839, Iconograph. Fauna Ital., 2 (Fasc. 24): 123; Leydig, 1867, Arch. Naturgesch., 33: 168; Bonaparte, 1840, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, Ser. 2, 2: 445; Schulze, 1891, Jahresber. Abhandl. Naturwiss. Ver. Magdeburg, 1890: 174.

Rana sardus — Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 80. Name attributed to Gené, presumably with reference to museum jar labels.

Rana sardoa — Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 426.

Pseudes sardus — Leunis, 1844, Synops. Drei Naturr., Zool., Ed. 1: 146; Leunis, 1860, Synops. Drei Naturr., Zool., Ed. 2: 146.

Discoglossus pictus var. sardoa — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 36.

Discoglossus sardous — Boscá, 1877, An. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., 6: 63. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Discoglossus pictus var. sardoa — Boettger, 1883, Rept. Amph. Marocco: 45.

Discoglossus pictus var. sardus — Camerano, 1884 "1883", Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, Ser. 2, 35: 208; Schreiber, 1912, Herpetol. Eur., Ed. 2: 184.

Discoglossus pictus sardus — Mertens and Müller, 1928, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 41: 15.

Discoglossus sardus — Knoepffler, 1961, Coll. Internatn. CNRS: 159; Lanza, Cei, and Crespo, 1975, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 9: 153.

Common Names

Tyrrhenian Painted Frog (Arnold and Burton, 1978, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Brit. Eur.: 62; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 51; Stumpel-Rienks, 1992, Ergänzungsband Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., Trivialnamen der Herpetofauna Eur.: 48; Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 63).

Sardinia Painted Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51).

Distribution

Sardinia, Giglio, and Monte Cristo (Italy); Iles d'Hyeres and Corsica (France).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: France, Italy

Comment

Lanza, Cei, and Crespo, 1975, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 9: 153–162, provided immunological evidence for the species distinctiveness of Discoglossus pictus and Discoglossus sardus. See Clarke and Lanza, 1990, Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 8: 531–544, for ecological and morphological comparison with Discoglossus montalentii in Corsica. See also account by Delaguerre and Cheylan, 1992, Atlas Repart. Batr. Rept. Corse: 29-30. Nöllert and Nöllert, 1992, Die Amph. Eur.: 269-270, provided an account and polygon map. Glaw and Vences, 1991, Amphibia-Reptilia, 12: 385–394, described and discussed the advertisement call. Veith and Martens, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 106-107, discussed relevant literature and distribution, noting extensive confusion with Discoglossus sardus. Lanza, 1983, Guide Reconoscimento Spec. Animali, Anf. Rett.: 91–93, reported on the Italian populations. Púgener and Maglia, 1997, J. Morphol., 233: 267–286, reported on osteology and skeletal development. Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 63, provided a brief account, figure, and map. See detailed account by Capula, 2007, in Lanza et al. (eds.), Fauna d'Italia, 42 (Amph.): 318–323. Speybroeck, Beukema, Bok, and Van Der Voort, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Brit. Eur.: 130–131, provided a brief account and distribution map. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 40, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology as well as a range map and photograph. Corti, Biaggini, Nulchis, Cogoni, Cossu, Frau, Mulargia, Lunghi, and Bassu, 2022, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 17: 125–133, reported on the range in Sardinia.

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