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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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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 scovazzi Camerano, 1878

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

Discoglossus scovazzi Camerano, 1878, Atti Accad. Sci. Torino, Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. Nat., 13: 548. Syntypes: 17 specimens, including MZUT An278 (Tetuan) and 280 (Tangier), by original designation. Also including BMNH 1920.1.20.535a,g (reregistered as 1947.2.25.77–78), according to museum records. Type localities: "Tetuan", "Tangeri" (= Tangier), and "Mogador", Morocco.

Discoglossus pictus scovazzi — Lanza, Nascetti, Capula, and Bullini, 1986, Bull. Soc. Herpetol. France, 40: 16; Gavetti and Andreone, 1993, Cat. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat., Torino, 10: 39.

Discoglossus scovazzi — Martínez-Solano, 2004, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 42: 298; Fromhage, Vences, and Veith, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 31: 321.

Common Names

Moroccan Painted Frog (Beukema, de Pous, Donaire-Barroso, Bogaerts, Garcia-Porta, Escoriza, Arribas, El Mouden, and Carranza, 2013, Zootaxa, 3661: 33).

Distribution

Mediterranean Morocco (southwest to Noun on the Atlantic coast) and North African Spanish territories of Melilla and Ceuta, below 2600 m elevation; possible relict population in the Saoura Valley of southwestern Algeria (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Algeria, Morocco, Spain

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Discoglossus pictus by Martínez-Solano, 2004, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 42: 298-305, and Fromhage, Vences, and Veith, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 31: 321, where it had been placed by Lataste, 1879, Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, Ser. 4, 3: 275-342; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 445. See comment under Discoglossus pictus. Beukema, de Pous, Donaire-Barroso, Bogaerts, Garcia-Porta, Escoriza, Arribas, El Mouden, and Carranza, 2013, Zootaxa, 3661: 33-35, provided an account. Reques, Pleguezuelos, Busack, and de Pous, 2013, Basic & Appl. Herpetol., 27: 23–50, discussed the range and conservation status in Morocco. Mateo, Géniez, and Pether, 2013, Basic & Appl. Herpetol., 27: 51–83, provided a range map, comments on the range and population status in Algeria. Vences, de Pous, Nicolas, Díaz-Rodríguez, Donaire-Barroso, Hugemann, Hauswaldt, Amat, Barnestein, Bogaerts, Bouazza, Carranza, Galán, González de la Vega, Joger, Lansari, El Mouden, Ohler, Sanuy, Slimani, and Tejedo, 2014, Amphibia-Reptilia, 35: 305-320, reported on molecular phylogenetics. Mediani, Brito, and Fahd, 2015, Basic & Appl. Herpetol., 29: 81–107, provided a dot map for northern Morocco. See Bouazza, El Mouden, and Rihane, 2021, Herpetol. Notes, 14: 3, who doubted the Algerian record based on biogeographic grounds. See detailed account by Escoriza and Ben Hassine, 2019, Amph. N. Afr.: 132–138. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 38–39, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 36, for brief summary of range, identifying morphology, and biology as well as a photograph. García-Cardenete, Flores, Yubero, and Rodríguez-Rodríguez, 2019, Bol. Asoc. Herpetol. Esp., 30: 50–53, provided a record (Noun) in southwestern Morocco and mapped the southwestern part of the range of the species. Mabrouki, Taybi, Skalli, and Sánchez-Vialas, 2019, Basic & Appl. Herpetol., 33: 19–32, commented on and mapped the species in the Mouloua River Basin and adjacent areas in eastern Morocco. Dufresnes, Pribille, Alard, Gonçalves, Amat, Crochet, Dubey, Perrin, Fumagalli, Vences, and Martínez-Solano, 2020, Heredity, 124: 423–438, discussed the evidence for species delimitation and the narrow zone of hybridization with Discoglossus pictus.

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