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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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Sclerophrys blanfordii (Boulenger, 1882)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Sclerophrys > Species: Sclerophrys blanfordii

Bufo blanfordii Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 301. Syntypes: BMNH 1869.11.4.22 and 1869.11.4.30-31, including animal figured on pl. 19, fig. 4 of the original publication and museum records. Type localities: "Ain Samhar" and "Sooroo", Ethiopia.

Bufo viridis somalacus Meek, 1897, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 1: 177. Syntypes: FMNH 419 and MCZ 19104-05 (on exchange from FMNH according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 86). Marx, 1958, Fieldiana, Zool., 36: 430, regarded FMNH 419 as "Type", although this does not constitute a lectotype designation. Type locality: "Haili" (= Hialeh), Somalia. (Note: discussion in text of the type description of Phrynobatrachus hailiensis suggests that the true type locality could be anywhere within 20 miles of the stated type locality—DRF.) Synonymy by Boulenger, 1898, Zool. Rec., 34: 31; Boulenger, 1898, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2, 18: 716.

Bufo somalicus Calabresi, 1927, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 66: 18. Holotype: MZUF. Type locality: "Ehil", Somalia. Synonymy by Hulselmans, 1977, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 9: 139; Lanza, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 152.

Bufo sibiliai Scortecci, 1929, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 68: 186. Syntypes: MSNM Am 272 (2 specimens) according to Blackburn and Scali, 2014, Herpetol. Monogr., 28: 27, who discussed the material. Type locality: "Regione Fil-Fil, presso Ghinda", Eritrea. Synonymy by Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 158.

Amietophrynus blanfordii — 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: 363.

Sclerophrys blanfordii — Ohler and Dubois, 2016, PeerJ, 4(e1553): 9.

English Names

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

Ethiopia Toad (Bufo sibiliai [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 43).

Distribution

Northeastern Eritrea, Djibouti, extreme northern Ethiopia and northern Somalia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia

Comment

In the Bufo blanfordii group of Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 158. Discussed by Tandy and Feener, 1985, in Schuchmann (ed.), Proc. Internatl. Symp Afr. Vert.: 549-585. See Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 315, for comments on habitat and distribution. See account (as Bufo blanfordii), photograph, and map for Ethiopia and Eritrea by Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 91. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 68–69, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.

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