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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"
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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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Bufo aspinius (Rao and Yang, 1994)

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

Torrentophryne aspinia Rao and Yang, 1994, Zool. Res., Kunming, 14: 354. Holotype: Not given; KIZ 91005 considered the holotype by Yang, Liu, and Rao, 1996, Zool. Res., Kunming, 17: 354. . Type locality: "Qingko in Taiping of Yangbi, Yunnan, . . . , altitude 2100 m", China, according to Yang, Liu, and Rao, 1996, Zool. Res., Kunming, 17: 354.

Bufo aspinius — Liu, Lathrop, Fu, Yang, and Murphy, 2000, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 14: 433.

Phrynoidis aspinia — Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 95.

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

English Names

Spineless Stream Toad (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 270).

Distribution

1800-2200 m elevation on the west side of Yunling Mountain, northwest-central Yunnan, China.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

See also brief account (as Torrentophryne aspinia) by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 75-76. See nomenclatural comment regarding the original publication of the name by Dubois, Crombie, and Glaw, 2005, Alytes, 23: 32. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 55-56, provided a brief account (as Torrentophryne aspinia) for Yunnan, China. See comment regarding Torrentophryne under Bufo record. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 576-580, provided an account and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 208, provided a brief account (as Torrentophryne aspinia) including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 270, provided an account (as Torrentophryne aspinia), photographs, and range map for China. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 809–811, provided an account (as Torrentophryne aspinia), photographs, and spot map for China.

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