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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
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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"
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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 parbocagii Poynton and Broadley, 1987

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

Leptopelis parbocagii Poynton and Broadley, 1987, Ann. Natal Mus., 28: 171. Holotype: MRAC 101088, by original designation. Type locality: "Mabwe, eastern shore of Lake Upemba, Zaïre (alt. 585 m)".

English Names

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

Cryptic Tree Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 206; Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 207).

Distribution

Savannas of southwestern Tanzania and Mozambique, Malawi, northern Zambia, northeastern Angola (see comment), and southern Dem. Rep. Congo (see comment).

Geographics occurrence

Natural resident: Angola, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia

Comment

See Poynton and Broadley, 1987, Ann. Natal Mus., 28: 171-174, for discussion of the large number of misidentifications under which this species has previously been reported. These authors also noted that another species may exist under this name from Malawi. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 292, and Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 206-207, provided accounts. Schiøtz and Van Daele, 2003, Alytes, 20: 146-147, provided comments on natural history and taxonomy. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 207-208, provided an account for East Africa. Mercurio, 2011, Amph. Malawi: 103-104, provided an account for Malawi and noted an undescribed species in the southern part of the country similar to this species. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 292, expressed deep reservations about both the delimitation of this species and its putative range and the difficulty of identifying specimens in hand from Leptopelis bocagii, although he did not dispute the likelihood of Leptopelis bocagii being a complex of cryptic species, so it would seem that workers should be cautious about the range as stated above as well as the identification of specimens referred to this species. Baptista, Conradie, Vaz Pinto, and Branch, 2019, In Huntley, Russo, Lages, and Ferrand (eds.), Biodiversity in Angola: 255, suggested that this species probably extends into Angola near northwestern Zambia. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 228–229, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.

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