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* = "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
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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 gracilipes (Boulenger, 1899)

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

Bufo gracilipes Boulenger, 1899, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 3: 276. Holotype: BMNH 1899.4.24.9 (now 1947.2.21.93), according to Grandison, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 46, and museum records. Type locality: "Benito River, French [Congo] [sic]", Equatorial Guinea.

Bufo funereus gracilipes — Perret and Mertens, 1957, Rev. Suisse Zool., 64: 73–78.

Bufo petiti Knoepffler, 1967, Biol. Gabonica, 3: 249. Holotype: MBG (Mission Biologique au Gabon—Centre national de la recherche scientifique) 1299, by original designation; current location unknown. Type locality: "Loa-loa (Ogooué-Ivindo), République Gabonaise". Synonymy by Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 158, 163.

Bufo gracilipes — Inger, 1968, Explor. Parc Natl. Garamba, Miss. H. de Saeger, 52: 25.

Amietophrynus gracilipes — 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 garmani — Ohler and Dubois, 2016, PeerJ, 4(e1553): 9.

English Names

French Congo Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 41).

Distribution

Southeastern Nigeria eastward through southern Cameroon, Gabon, to northern Rep. Congo and northern and northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo; Bioko and mainland Equatorial Guinea; likely to occur in southwestern Central African Republic and the Cabinda enclave of Angola.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Likely/Controversially Present: Angola, Central African Republic

Comment

Easily confused with Bufo funereus (e.g., Boulenger, 1906 "1905", Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 3, 2: 158) and Bufo latifrons, according to Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 315; and Inger, 1968, Explor. Parc Natl. Garamba, Miss. H. de Saeger, 52: 25. In the Bufo gracilipes group of Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 158. Frétey and Blanc, 2002 "2001", Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 126: 380, reported this species from Gabon. Lasso, Rial, Castroviejo, and De la Riva, 2002, Graellsia, 58: 21–34, provided notes on ecological distribution in Equatorial Guinea. Schiøtz, 1963, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 125: 16, provided records for Nigeria. Jackson and Blackburn, 2007, Salamandra, 43: 149–164, provided a record for Nouabale-Ndoki National Park, Rep. Congo. Jongsma, Tobi, Dixon-MacCallum, Bamba-Kaya, Yoga, Mbega, Mve Beh, Emrich, and Blackburn, 2017, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 11 (1: e144): 8–9, provided records for southeastern Gabon and briefly discussed habitat and range. Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 17, summarized the literature for Gabon and provided photographs (p. 52). Mali, Banda, Chifundera, Badjedjea, Sebe, Lokasola, Ewango, Tungaluna, and Akaibe, 2019, Am. J. Zool., 2: 38–43, reported the species from the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 70–71, 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. A similar but unnamed species from Uigé Province of northwestern Angola, was noted by Ernst, Lautenschläger, Branquima, and Hölting, 2020, Zoosyst. Evol., 96: 253. Kako-Wanzalire, Mongo, Ilonga, Mapoli, Mbumba, Neema, Tungaluna, Itoka, and Bogaert, 2021, Tropicultura, 39 (1: 1709): 1–19, briefly discussed habitat preference in Tshopo, north-central Dem. Rep. Congo.

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