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* = "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
	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
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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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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 argenteus (Pfeffer, 1893)

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

Hylambates argenteus Pfeffer, 1893, Jahrb. Hamburg. Wiss. Anst., 10: 100. Holotype: ZMH A00442 (formerly 287), according to Hallermann, 1998, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 95: 199; incorrectly reported as lost by Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 227. Type locality: "Sumpf südlich der Stadt Bagamoyo" (= marsh south of Bagamoyo), Tanzania.

Leptopelis argenteus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 217.

Leptopelis argenteus argenteus — Schiøtz, 1975, Treefrogs E. Afr.: 18.

Common Names

Silver Leaf Frog (Broadley, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 34).

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

Silvery Tree Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 197; Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 195).

Triad Tree Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 195 [alternative name]).

Distribution

Moist savannas of coastal Tanzania and southern Kenya to southern Malawi and to the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe, and south to the border with northern Mozambique, where it likely occurs.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe

Likely/Controversially Present: Mozambique

Comment

See comments under Leptopelis concolor. Removed from the synonymy of Hylambates maculatus by Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 217, where it had been placed by Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 50: 238–239. Schiøtz and Van Daele, 2003, Alytes, 20: 146, suggested that Leptopelis concolor is conspecific with this taxon. IUCN, Conservation International, and NatureServe, 2004, Global Amph. Assessment, reported a much smaller distribution, restricted to Tanzania but did not comment on the distribution as mapped by Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 197–198 (who provided an account). Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 92–93, also provided a brief account for southern Africa. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 195–196, provided an account for East Africa. Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 505–507, provided an account. Mercurio, 2011, Amph. Malawi: 94–95, provided an account for Malawi. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 296–297, provided brief accounts as Leptopelis argenteus and Leptopelis broadleyi. Harper, Measey, Patrick, Menegon, and Vonesh, 2010, Field Guide Amph. E. Arc Mts. Tanzania and Kenya: 62–63, provided a brief account for the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 226–227, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.

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