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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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Arthroleptis carquejai Ferreira, 1906

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Arthroleptidae > Subfamily: Arthroleptinae > Genus: Arthroleptis > Species: Arthroleptis carquejai

Arthroleptis carquejai Ferreira, 1906, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, Ser. 2, 7: 165. Holotype: MUP, according to Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 15. Reported as MUP 018586 by Ceríaco, Blackburn, Marques, and Calado, 2014, Alytes, 31: 27. Type locality: "Cambondo", Kwanza Norte, Angola.

Arthroleptis (Arthroleptis) carquejai — Laurent, 1941 "1940", Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 85.

Abroscaphus carquejai — Laurent, 1957, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 56: 274–275, by implication.

Common Names

Cambondo Screeching Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 37).

Carqueja's Squeaker (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 42).

Distribution

Northwestern Angola in the provinces of Cabina, Luanda, and Kwanza Norte, and Loufika and Tchikoulou, Rep. Congo; presumably in intervening Dem. Rep. Congo; reported from Province de la Ngounié, Gabon (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola, Congo, Republic of the, Gabon

Likely/Controversially Present: Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Comment

See brief account by Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 42, who noted that the taxon is so poorly known that it may not be distinct from one of the other species in the area once types have been examined. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99–172, summarized the literature. Ceríaco, Blackburn, Marques, and Calado, 2014, Alytes, 31: 27–28, discussed and pictured the holotype and suggested that it represents a distinct species. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 117–118, provided a map and brief account for Angola. Dewynter, Frétey, Jongsma, Bamba-Kaya, and Pauwels, 2018, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 18: 10, reported the species as Arthroleptis cf. carquejai from Monts Birougo, Province de la Ngounié, Gabon. Subsequently, Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 4, lists the species (as Arthroleptis carquejai) for Gabon, suggesting either that the range is much broader than previously supposed (possibly including Dem. Rep. Congo and several other intervening countries inasmuch as the type locality is in Angola), or that identifications are suspect. See comment by Ernst, Lautenschläger, Branquima, and Hölting, 2020, Zoosyst. Evol., 96: 247–248. Lobón-Rovira, Baptista, Clark, Jongsma, Conradie, Veríssimol, and Vaz Pinto, 2025, Afr. J. Herpetol., 74: 12–14, reported the species from several localities in Cabinda Province, Angola, and Loufika and Tchikoulou, Rep. Congo, and briefly discussed the range.

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