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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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Nectophryne batesii Boulenger, 1913

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Nectophryne > Species: Nectophryne batesii

Nectophryne batesii Boulenger, 1913, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 12: 71. Syntypes: BMNH 1907.5.22.148–150 (reregistered 1947.2.19.30–33), 1908.5.30.112–117 (formerly 1947.2.19.34–39), 1911.5.30.15 (reregistered 1947.2.19.42), 1913.10.27.45–48 (reregistered 1947.2.19.40–41), according to Grandison, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 69, and museum records. Type locality: "Neighbourhood of Bitye, on the Ja River (Congo System)", Cameroon.

Common Names

Bates' Tree Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 44).

Distribution

Southeastern Nigeria, western and southern Cameroon, Gabon, southern (and expected in northern) Rep. Congo, southern Central African Republic, and north-central and northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo into Cabinda Province, Angola (see comment); Equatorial Guinea (Bioko I. and Río Muni).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria

Comment

Herrmann, Böhme, Herrmann, Plath, Schmitz, and Solbach, 2005, Salamandra, 41: 61–81, reported the species from Nkebe waterfall, Nguéngué, and Eyimba, southwestern Cameroon. Larson and Zimkus, 2018, Herpetol. Conserv. Biol., 13: 247, commented on the species in Gabon. Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 15, summarized the literature for Gabon and provided photographs (p. 51). Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 92–93, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. See brief account, range map, and photographs for Equatorial Guinea in Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta, Castroviejo-Fisher, and De la Riva, 2020, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 66: 137–230. Liedtke, Soler-Navarro, Gomez-Mestre, Loader, and Rödel, 2021, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 162 (107184): 1–12, reported on phylogeographic patterns and noted that the species falls into three allopatric populations which show deep lineage divergence. Musubaho, Iyongo, Mukinzi, Mukiranya, Mutahinga, Badjedjea, Lango, and Bogaert, 2024, Animals, 16(457): 1–17, reported the species from Yoko Forest Reserve, Tshopo Province, north-central Dem. Rep. Congo. Lobón-Rovira, Baptista, Clark, Jongsma, Conradie, Veríssimol, and Vaz Pinto, 2025, Afr. J. Herpetol., 74: 21, reported Nectophryne aff. batesii (genetically differing from Nectophryne batesii from Gabon, and possibly a distinct species) from Mayombe National Park, Cabinda Province, Angola.

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