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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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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
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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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Latonia nigriventer (Mendelssohn and Steinitz, 1943)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Alytidae > Genus: Latonia > Species: Latonia nigriventer

Discoglossus nigriventer Mendelssohn and Steinitz, 1943, Copeia, 1943: 231. Holotype: HUJ ("Amphib. Discogl., No. 1, Collection of the Dept. of Zool., Hebrew University, Jerusalem"). Type locality: "East shore of Lake Huleh (Northern District, Safed Subdistrict)", Israel.

Latonia nigriventer — Biton, Geffen, Vences, Cohen, Bailon, Rabinovich, Malka, Oron, Boistel, Brumfeld, and Gafny, 2013, Nature Commun., 2959(4: 1959): 3.

Common Names

Israel Painted Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 51; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51, USFWS).

Hula Painted Frog (Global Amphibian Assessment, 2006).

Distribution

Lake Huleh region, Israel and Palestine; likely formerly in adjacent Lebanon.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Israel

Likely/Controversially Present: Lebanon, Palestine, State of

Endemic: Israel

Comment

Khalaf-Sakerfalke von Jaffa, 2008, Gazelle, 84: 1–18, discussed range and conservation status in Palestine. Biton, Geffen, Vences, Cohen, Bailon, Rabinovich, Malka, Oron, Boistel, Brumfeld, and Gafny, 2013, Nature Commun., 2959(4: 1959): 1-6, placed the species in the fossil genus Latonia and noted that it is the living sister taxon of Discoglossus. Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 137, provided a map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Discoglossus nigriventer). Albaba, 2016, J. Entomol. Zool. Stud., 4: 123–128, did not include this species as occurring in Palestine. Perl, Gafny, Malka, Oliveira, Woodhams, Rollins-Smith, Pask, Bletz, Geffen, and Vences, 2017, Contrib. Zool., Amsterdam, 86: 11–37, discussed natural history and conservation. Perl, Gafny, Malka, Renan, and Vences, 2018, Herpetol. Notes, 11: 475–480, reported on post-metamorphic color pattern changes. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 41, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology as well as a range map and photograph. Gafny and Roll, 2025, In Heatwole, Das, and King (eds.), Amphibian Biology. Volume 11, Part 8 (Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Eastern Hemisphere): 57–94, reported on conservation status in Israel with photographs and dot maps.

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