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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
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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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 cynnamomeus (Barboza du Bocage, 1893)

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

Hylambates cynnamomeus Barboza du Bocage, 1893, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, Ser. 2, 3 (10): 120. Holotype: MBL T. 16–250, according to Perret, 1976, Arq. Mus. Bocage, Ser. 2, 6: 22; destroyed by 1978 fire. Type locality: "Quillengues", Angola.

Leptopelis cinnamomeus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 213; Schiøtz, 1975, Treefrogs E. Afr.: 24. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Leptopelis viridis cinnamomeus — Laurent, 1964, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 67: 148; Poynton, 1969 "1966", Mem. Inst. Invest. Cient. Moçambique, Ser. A, Cienc. Biol., 8: 27; Laurent, 1973, Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Tervuren, Ser. Octavo, Sci. Zool., 202: 11.

Leptopelis moeroensis Laurent, 1973, Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Tervuren, Ser. Octavo, Sci. Zool., 202: 29. Holotype: MRAC 112693, by original designation. Type locality: "Pweto, lac Moero, Shaba [= Katanga], [southeastern] Zaire [= Dem. Rep. Congo]". Synonymy by Poynton and Broadley, 1987, Ann. Natal Mus., 28: 177–178.

Leptopelis viridis cynnamomeus — Laurent, 1973, Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Tervuren, Ser. Octavo, Sci. Zool., 202: 11.

Leptopelis cynnamomeus — Perret, 1976, Arq. Mus. Bocage, Ser. 2, 6: 22.

Common Names

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

Angola Forest Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 69).

Cinnamon Tree Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 220).

Distribution

Wooded savannas from southern Dem. Rep. Congo and northwestern Zambia to central and eastern Angola. Similar but unnamed species in eastern Dem. Rep. Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Zambia

Comment

Considered a subspecies of Leptopelis viridis by Laurent, 1973, Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Tervuren, Ser. Octavo, Sci. Zool., 202: 11, but Schiøtz, 1975, Treefrogs E. Afr.: 25, and Perret, 1976, Arq. Mus. Bocage, Ser. 2, 6: 22, considered these forms to be distinct species. Perret regarded the paratypes of Leptopelis cynnamomeus (from Guinea-Bissau) to be Leptopelis viridis. A. Channing In Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 229, regarded the taxon as badly in need of revision. Southern African material treated as ?cinnamomeus by Schiøtz is composed of several cryptic species according to J.C. Poynton in Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 229). Poynton and Broadley, 1987, Ann. Natal Mus., 28: 177–178, provided a short account and noted that this name has been incorrectly applied to populations assignable to Leptopelis parbocagii and Leptopelis mossambicus. See discussion by Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 297–299, about the convoluted history of the application of the name. Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 200–201, provided an account. Schiøtz and Van Daele, 2003, Alytes, 20: 146, provided some natural history and taxonomic comments. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 124, provided a map and brief account for Angola. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 220–221, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Dehling and Sinsch, 2023, Diversity, 15 (512): 1–81, discussed the range, identification, natural history, advertisement call, and conservation status of Leptopelis cf. cynnamomeus in Western Province, Rwanda.

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