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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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Leptodactylodon Andersson, 1903

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Arthroleptidae > Subfamily: Astylosterninae > Genus: Leptodactylodon

15 species

Leptodactylodon Andersson, 1903, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 53: 141. Type species: Leptodactylodon ovatus Andersson, 1903, by monotypy.

Bulua Boulenger, 1904, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 13: 262. Type species: Bulua ventrimarmorata Boulenger, 1904, by monotypy. Synonymy by Andersson, 1905, Ark. Zool., 2(20): 22, and Roux, 1905, Zool. Anz., 28: 777-785.

Common Names

Egg Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 38).

Distribution

Eastern Nigeria and western and southwestern Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.

Comment

In Astylosternini of 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. Revised by Amiet, 1981 "1980", Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 27: 69-224, who supplied information on life history and relationships. Removed from Phrynopsinae of Noble, 1931, Biol. Amph.: 518, to Astylosterninae by Laurent, 1946, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 39: 337. Ohler, 1999, Alytes, 17: 73-80, provided a key to the species and recognized four species groups, the Leptodactylodon mertensi group (Leptodactylodon mertensi, Leptodactylodon erythrogaster, Leptodactylodon perreti, Leptodactylodon axillaris), Leptodactylodon bicolor group (Leptodactylodon bicolor), Leptodactylodon ornatus group (Leptodactylodon ornatus), and Leptodactylodon ovatus group (Leptodactylodon ovatus, Leptodactylodon boulengeri, Leptodactylodon ventrimarmoratus, Leptodactylodon albiventris, Leptodactylodon blanci, Leptodactylodon polycanthus). Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 99–105, reported on comparative tadpole morphology. Mapouyat, Hirschfeld, Rödel, Liedtke, Loader, Gonwouo, Dahmen, Doherty-Bone, and Barej, 2014, Zootaxa, 3765: 29-53, reported on larval morphology of several species. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 246–253, provided brief accounts, photographs, and range maps for the species.

Contained taxa (15 sp.):

Leptodactylodon albiventris (Boulenger, 1905)

Leptodactylodon axillaris Amiet, 1971

Leptodactylodon bicolor Amiet, 1971

Leptodactylodon blanci Ohler, 1999

Leptodactylodon boulengeri Nieden, 1910

Leptodactylodon bueanus Amiet, 1981

Leptodactylodon erythrogaster Amiet, 1971

Leptodactylodon mertensi Perret, 1959

Leptodactylodon ornatus Amiet, 1971

Leptodactylodon ovatus Andersson, 1903

Leptodactylodon perreti Amiet, 1971

Leptodactylodon polyacanthus Amiet, 1971

Leptodactylodon stevarti Rödel and Pauwels, 2003

Leptodactylodon ventrimarmoratus (Boulenger, 1904)

Leptodactylodon wildi Amiet and Dowsett-Lemaire, 2000

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