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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 taeniatus Boulenger, 1906

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

Arthroleptis taeniatus Boulenger, 1906, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 17: 319. Holotype: BMNH, by original designation; BMNH 190.5.28.102, reregistered BM 1947.2.30.53, by museum records. Type locality: "Zima" (= Sangmelima), South Cameroon.

Arthroleptis variabilis var. pica Andersson, 1907, Jahrb. Nassau. Ver. Naturkd., Wiesbaden, 60: 236. Syntypes: MWNH (5 specimens), by original designation, these being lot MWNH 124 according to Köhler and Güsten, 2007, Spixiana, München, 30: 280. Type locality: "Urwalde", Bibundi, Cameroon. Synonymy with Arthroleptis taeniatus by Mertens, 1938, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 442: 16.

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

Schoutedenella taeniata — Laurent, 1954, Ann. Mus. R. Congo Belge, Tervuren, Ser. Quarto, Sci. Zool., 1: 40.

Arthroleptis taeniatus — Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 129; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 336.

Arthroleptis variabilis var. picta — Duellman, 1993, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 21: 15. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Arthroleptis variabilis var. pica.

Common Names

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

Striped Squeaker (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 256).

Distribution

Southern Cameroon and southwestern Central African Republic to Gabon to extreme western Dem. Rep. Congo; presumably to be found in intervening Rep. Congo; possibly in Equatorial Guinea (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Gabon

Likely/Controversially Present: Congo, Republic of the, Equatorial Guinea

Comment

See comment under Arthroleptis bivittatus. See Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 393–394, and Perret, 1991, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 114: 71–76. Frétey and Blanc, 2002 "2001", Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 126: 381, reported this species from Gabon. Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 18, regarded this taxon to be synonymous with Arthroleptis bivittatus (as Schoutedenella bivittata) but Perret, 1991, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 114: 71–76, retained them as distinct. Dewynter, Frétey, Jongsma, Bamba-Kaya, and Pauwels, 2018, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 18: 21, provided a brief account and photographs from the Monts Birougou area of Gabon. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99–172, and Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 8, summarized the literature for Gabon and provided photographs (p. 44). Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 256–257, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta, Castroviejo-Fisher, and De la Riva, 2020, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 66: 144, transferred previous records from Equatorial Guinea records to Arthroleptis sylvaticus.

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