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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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Firouzophrynus olivaceus (Blanford, 1874)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Firouzophrynus > Species: Firouzophrynus olivaceus

Bufo olivaceus Blanford, 1874, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 4, 14: 35. Syntypes: BMNH 1874.11.23.122 (now 1947.2.20.93), ZSIC 3523-25 (according to Sclater, 1892, List Batr. Indian Mus.: 27); BMNH 1874.11.23.122 designated lectotype by Balletto, Cherchi, and Gasperetti, 1985, Fauna Saudi Arabia, 7: 341. Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 301, had not noted the BMNH specimen as one of Blanford's types although it was received from him and catalogued into the BMNH in 1874 (DRF). Type locality: "in Gedrosia", Iran; given as "Dasht river, Baluchistan . . . [and] Bahu Kalat, Baluchistan . . . [and] Ghistigan, Bampusht, Baluchistan" by Blanford, 1876, E. Persia, 2: 434; rendered as "Dasht-Fluss (Gedrosia), Balutschistan", Iran, by Eiselt and Schmidtler, 1973, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 77: 184. Rendered as "Ghistigan, Balochistan, north-western Pakistan" by Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 103. Restricted to "Dasht, Baluchistan" (data fide Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 301) by lectotype designation of Balletto, Cherchi, and Gasperetti, 1985, Fauna Saudi Arabia, 7: 341.

"Bufo" olivaceus — 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.

Duttaphrynus olivaceus — Fahimi and Safaei-Mahroo, 2012, Ident. Animals & Plants Homag Protect. Area: 101; Portik and Papenfuss, 2015, BMC Evol. Biol., 15 (152): 11; Safaei-Mahroo, Ghaffari, Fahimi, Broomand, Yazdanian, Najafi-Majd, Hosseinian Yousefkani, Rezazadeh, Hosseinzadeh, Nasrabadi, Mashayekhi, Motesharei, Naderi, and Kazemi, 2015, Asian Herpetol. Res., 6: 266

Firouzophrynus olivaceus — Safaei-Mahroo and Ghaffari, 2020, Compl. Guide Amph. Iran: 19.

Common Names

Olive Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 42; Khan, 2002, Bull. Chicago Herpetol. Soc., 37: 159).

Baluchistan Coastal Toad (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 40).

Baluchestan Coastal Toad (Baloutch and Kami, 1995, Amph. Iran: 132; Kami, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 73).

Makran Toad (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 40).

Olive True Toad (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 2).

Distribution

Southeastern Iran (Fars, Hormozgan, Kerman, and Sistan va Baluchistan provinces) and extreme western Baluchistan (Pakistan); an apparently isolated population in Gurgaon District, Haryana, India (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India, Iran, Pakistan

Comment

In the Bufo stomaticus group of Inger, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 107. Suggested by Dubois, 1974, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 213: 341-411, and Balletto, Cherchi, and Gasperetti, 1985, Fauna Saudi Arabia, 7: 342, to possibly be conspecific with Bufo stomaticus. See Auffenberg and Rehman, 1997, in Mufti et al. (eds.), Biodiversity of Pakistan: 351-372, for account and distinctiveness from Bufo stomaticus. Kami, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 73, provided a range extension for Gheshm Island, Hormozan Province, Iran, and outlined the distribution of the species. Baloutch and Kami, 1995, Amph. Iran: 132-135, provided an account for Iran. Khan, 2006, Amph. Rept. Pakistan: 45, provided a brief account for Pakistan. Ray and Deuti, 2008, Herpetol. Rev., 39: 233, provided the first record for India in Haryana state, western India. Heydari and Rastegar-Pouyani, 2010, Russ. J. Herpetol., 17: 243-244, discussed the range in southern Iran and doubted the occurrence of this species in India and Afghanistan. Safaei-Mahroo, Ghaffari, Fahimi, Broomand, Yazdanian, Najafi-Majd, Hosseinian Yousefkani, Rezazadeh, Hosseinzadeh, Nasrabadi, Mashayekhi, Motesharei, Naderi, and Kazemi, 2015, Asian Herpetol. Res., 6: 257–290, reported on distribution and conservation status in Iran. Key to the species (as Firouzophrynus olivaceus), synonymy, distribution (including map), and access to literature provided by Safaei-Mahroo and Ghaffari, 2020, Compl. Guide Amph. Iran: 1–331. Bisht, Garg, Sarmah, Sengupta, and Biju, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 451–470, suggested on the basis of genetic distance of 16S mtDNA that Duttaphrynus stomaticus is likely conspecific with Duttaphrynus olivaceus. Rais, Ahmed, Sajjad, Akram, Saeed, Hamid, and Abid, 2021, ZooKeys, 1062: 157–175, included this species in an identification key to the amphibian species of Pakistan as well as providing a photograph. Safaei-Mahroo, Ghaffari, and Niamir, 2023, Zootaxa, 5279: 1–112, provided for Iran an identification key including this species (and subspecies), photographs, habitat, conservation threats and Red List recommendation, a review of the literature, as well as dot and modeled distribution maps.

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