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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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Bufo ailaoanus Kou, 1984

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Bufo > Species: Bufo ailaoanus

Bufo ailaoanus Kou, 1984, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 3 (4): 40. Holotype: YU A828025, by original designation. Type locality: "Ejia, Shuangbai County, Yunnan [Province], alt. 2,600 m", China.

"Bufo" ailaoanus — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 364. Excluded from Bufo and unassigned to genus.

Torrentophryne ailaoanus — Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 53. Gender disagreement.

Bufo (Bufo) ailaoanus — Dubois and Bour, 2010, Zootaxa, 2447: 24.

English Names

Ejia Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 40).

Ailao Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 126).

Ailao Stream Toad (Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 806).

Distribution

Ailao Shan Mountains, 2550–2600 m, Shuangbai County, central Yunnan, China.

Comment

Related to Bufo burmanus and Bufo cryptotympanicus according to the original publication. In the Bufo stejnegeri group of Dubois and Ohler, 1999, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 4: 133-180. Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 92-94, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 126-127, provided brief accounts, figures, and maps. Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297, suggested that this species is not a member of the monophyletic taxon Bufo (the former Bufo bufo group), but could not allocate this species to any of the other genera, instead leaving this species in a non-taxon "Bufo" which they denoted as polyphyletic by placing the name in quotation marks. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 53-54, provided a brief account (as Torrentophryne ailaoanus) for Yunnan, China. See comment under Bufo record regarding Torrentophryne. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 490-493, provided an account, illustration of the holotype, and spot map (as Bufo ailaoanus). Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 220, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 269, provided an account (as Torrentophryne ailaoanus), photographs, and range map for China. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 806–806, provided an account (as Torrentophryne ailaoanus), photographs, and spot map for China.

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