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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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Probreviceps Parker, 1931

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Brevicipitidae > Genus: Probreviceps

6 species

Probreviceps Parker, 1931, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 10, 8: 262. Type species: Breviceps macrodactylus Nieden, 1926, by original designation.

English Names

Forest Rain Frogs (Lambiris, 1990 "1989", Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10: 69).

Big-fingered Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 92).

Forest Frogs (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 230).

Primitive Rain Frogs (Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 134).

Distribution

Montane forests of Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

Comment

See Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 26: 515, for short discussion of taxonomic characters. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 230, noted an undescribed species (the Ukaguru Forest Frog) from the Ukaguru Mountains of Tanzania, for which they provided an account on page 234-235. Menegon, Doggart, and Owen, 2008, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 3: 107-127, reported an undescribed species from the Nguru Mountains of eastern Tanzania. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 124–125, provided brief accounts, photographs, and range maps for the species.

Contained taxa (6 sp.):

Probreviceps durirostris Loader, Channing, Menegon, and Davenport, 2006

Probreviceps loveridgei Parker, 1931

Probreviceps macrodactylus (Nieden, 1926)

Probreviceps rhodesianus Poynton and Broadley, 1967

Probreviceps rungwensis Loveridge, 1932

Probreviceps uluguruensis (Loveridge, 1925)

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