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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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Nectophrynoides viviparus (Tornier, 1905)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Nectophrynoides > Species: Nectophrynoides viviparus

Pseudophryne vivipara Tornier, 1905, Sitzungsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 39: 855. Syntypes: ZMB (lost?) and (according to museum records) BMNH 1935.2.8.4 (now reregistered 1947.2.19.45); MHNG 1221.55 designated neotype in error by Perret, 1972, Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 11: 112, who apparently did not realize that a syntype survived in the BMNH according to implication of Poynton, 1996, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 53: 229. Loader, Poynton, Davenport, and Rödel, 2009, Zootaxa, 2304: 41-50, identified the original type series as ZMB 21775, 71524-25 (Kratersee des Nyisvulkans), 25419, 3400, 71531-34, 71187-95 (Rungwe), 25261, 71529-30, 25312, 25268, 71535-37 (südliches Deutsch Ost-Afrika), and BMNH 1947.2.1945 (südliches Deutsch Ost-Afrika). ZMB 21775 designated lectotype by Loader, Poynton, Davenport, and Rödel, 2009, Zootaxa, 2304: 42. Type localities: "Daressalam; . . . Rungwe und im Kingagebirge", Tanzania; invalid neotype not selected from original type locality but "Morogoro, Mt Uluguru, Tanzanie". Lectotype from "Kratersee des Nyisvulkans", Tanzania.

Nectophryne werthi Nieden, 1911 "1910", Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1910: 439. Syntypes: ZMB (7 specimens), by original designation. Given as ZMB 21784 and 71528 by Loader, Poynton, Davenport, and Rödel, 2009, Zootaxa, 2304: 42. Type locality: "Dar es Salaam", Tanzania. Synonymy by Perret, 1972, Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 11: 93-119.

Tornierobates vivipara — Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 19.

Nectophrynoides vivipara — Noble, 1926, Am. Mus. Novit., 212: 15; Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 50: 191.

Nectophrynoides viviparus — Perret, 1971, Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 6: 99.

English Names

Morogoro Tree Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 45).

Robust Forest Toad (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 115).

Robust Viviparous Toad (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 106).

Distribution

Mountains of central to southwestern Tanzania, 1350–2800 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Tanzania

Endemic: Tanzania

Comment

Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 115-116, and Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 556, provided accounts. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 198. Loader, Poynton, Davenport, and Rödel, 2009, Zootaxa, 2304: 41-50, discussed the type series and redescribed the lectotype. Harper, Measey, Patrick, Menegon, and Vonesh, 2010, Field Guide Amph. E. Arc Mts. Tanzania and Kenya: 152–153, provided a brief account and photograph. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 106–107, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.

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