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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 wahlbergii Smith, 1849

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

Arthroleptis wahlbergii Smith, 1849, Illust. Zool. S. Afr., 3 (Appendix): 24. Holotype: BMNH 55.11.25.17 according to Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 16. Museum records give 1858.11.25.17. Type locality: "interior of Southern Africa"; given in error as "Cape of Good Hope" (outside of the known range) by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 117. D. Blackburn (personal commun. 14 May 2009) suggests that the type locality is likely inland of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.

Arthroleptis dalenei Hoffman, 1940, Soöl. Navors. Nas. Mus. Bloemfontein, 1: 97. Holotype: NMB A2087, by original designation. Type locality: "Mazongwaan Forest, Greytown, [KwaZulu-]Natal", Rep. South Africa. Synonymy by Loveridge, 1954, Ann. Natal Mus., 13: 97; Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 160.

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

Arthroleptis wahlbergii wahlbergii — Loveridge, 1954, Ann. Natal Mus., 13: 97.

Arthroleptis wahlbergii dalenei — Loveridge, 1954, Ann. Natal Mus., 13: 97.

Arthroleptis wahlbergii wageri — Loveridge, 1954, Ann. Natal Mus., 13: 97.

Common Names

Wahlberg's Forest Frog (Hewitt, 1937, Guide Vert. Fauna E. Cape Province, Rept. Amph. Fishes: 104).

Bush Squeaker (Wager, 1965, Frogs S. Afr.: 175; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 206; Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 48; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 86).

Wahlberg's Humus Frog (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 16).

Wahlberg's Frog (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 16).

Distribution

Mist-belt, scarp, and coastal forest from extreme northeastern coastal plain of South Africa south along the coast to coastal Transkei (Eastern Cape Province) and coastal and midland areas of KwaZulu-Natal, Rep. South Africa; likely to be found in adjacent Mozambique.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: South Africa

Likely/Controversially Present: Mozambique

Endemic: South Africa

Comment

See accounts (in the sense of including Arthroleptis wageri as a synonym) by Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 160–161 (who rejected subspecies), Lambiris, 1988, Lammergeyer, 39: 116–117, Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 48, Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 311–313, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 86–87. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99–172, summarized the literature. Tolley, Conradie, Harvey, Measey, and Blackburn, 2018, Afr. Zool., 53: 83–97, removed Arthroleptis wageri from synonymy, and discussed the molecular evidence for a complex biogeography. Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 86–87, provided an account (identification, conservation status, call, range, and habitat). Phaka, Netherlands, Kruger, and Du Preez, 2017, Bilingual Field Guide Frogs Zululand: 19, provided a photograph, Zululand regional map, and a brief account of life history and identification. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 264–265, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Buschau, Jordaan, Conradie, and Daniels, 2022, J. Biogeograph., 49: 445–459, reported on mtDNA phylogeography.

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