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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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Leptopelis anchietae (Barboza du Bocage, 1873)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Arthroleptidae > Subfamily: Leptopelinae > Genus: Leptopelis > Species: Leptopelis anchietae

Hylambates anchietae Barboza du Bocage, 1873, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, 4 (15): 226. Holotype: MBL, T.13-233 according to Perret, 1976, Arq. Mus. Bocage, Ser. 2, 6: 22–23; destroyed in 1978 fire. Type locality: "l'intérieur de Mossamedes"; corrected to Huila and Caconda, Mts. Chininga, Angola, by Perret, 1976, Arq. Mus. Bocage, Ser. 2, 6: 22–23.

Leptopelis anchietae — Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 331; Mertens, 1940, Senckenb. Biol., 22: 130 (Mertens' use based on specimens of Leptopelis nordequatorialis according to Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 434).

Leptopelis (Taphriomantis) anchietae — Laurent, 1941, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 35: 102.

Common Names

Huila Forest Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 68).

Anchieta's Tree Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 196).

Distribution

Known from scattered localities throughout much of central and southwestern Angola.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola

Endemic: Angola

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Leptopelis rufus by Mertens, 1940, Senckenb. Biol., 22: 130, where it had been placed by Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 242. Leptopelis anchietae nordequatorialis Perret, 1966, is now considered a distinct species, as is Leptopelis oryi Inger, 1968. See Amiet and Schiøtz, 1974, Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 17: 148–149; Schiøtz, 1975, Treefrogs E. Afr.: 11–13; and Perret, 1976, Arq. Mus. Bocage, Ser. 2, 6: 22–23. Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 227 suggested that both of these taxa are probably subspecies of Leptopelis anchietae. See comment under Leptopelis oryi. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 306–307, and Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 196–197, provided accounts. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 106–107, reported on comparative tadpole morphology. Conradie, Keates, Verburgt, Baptista, and Harvey, 2023, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 17: 25, provided an account and dot map of the species in Angola. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 121–122, provided a map and brief account for Angola. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 218–219, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Becker, Baptista, Vaz Pinto, Ernst, and Conradie, 2023, Namib. J. Environm., 8: 245–257, discussed this species, its range in the highlands of Angola, and provided a dot map. Marques, Parrinha, Lopes-Lima, Tiutenko, Bauer, and Ceríaco, 2024, ZooKeys, 1201: 182, briefly discussed localities in the Serra da Neve inselberg region, Namibia Province, southwestern Angola.

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