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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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Platymantis corrugatus (Duméril, 1853)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ceratobatrachidae > Subfamily: Ceratobatrachinae > Genus: Platymantis > Species: Platymantis corrugatus

Hylodes corrugatus Duméril, 1853, Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, Ser. 3, 19: 176. Holotype: MNHNP 4884, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 40. Type locality: "Java", in error, according to Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 351-352, who suggested that the holotype originated in the Philippines. Placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology by Opinion 1104, Anonymous, 1978, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 34: 223.

Platymantis plicifera Günther, 1858, Arch. Naturgesch., 24: 327. Syntypes: BMNH (4 specimens) according to Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 95; these including BMNH 1947.2.7.6–7 according to museum records, the other two not located. Type locality: "Philippinen". Synonymy by Peters, 1873, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 611; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 110; Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 190; Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 351-352.

Hylodes (Halophilus) corrugatus — Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 154.

Halophila (Platymantis) plicifera — Peters, 1863, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 457.

Platymantis corrugata — Peters, 1873, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 611. Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 1: 373.

Cornufer corrugatus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 110; Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2.

Platymantis corrugata — Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 1: 373.

Rana (Platymantis) rugata Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 190. Replacement name for Hylodes corrugatus Duméril, 1853.

Platymantis corrugatus corrugatus Loveridge, 1948, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 101: 406. Zweifel, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 120, by reference to Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2-3.

Platymantis corrugata — Günther, 1999, Mitt. Mus. Naturkd. Berlin, Zool., 75: 327-328, by implication. Unjustified emendation according to Kraus and Allison, 2007, Zootaxa, 1485: 29-30.

English Names

Philippine Wrinkled Ground Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 104).

Rough-back Forest Frog (Gaulke, 2011, Herpetofauna Panay Island: 60).

Distribution

Luzon to Mindanao on the main islands of the Philippines; absent from Palawan.

Comment

Synonymy and discussion in Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 350-354. In Platymantis dorsalis group of Alcala and Brown, 1999, Philipp. J. Sci., 128: 283. See Ross and Lazell, 1990, Philipp. J. Sci., 119: 260, for report of material from Dinagat Island. Gaulke, 2011, Herpetofauna Panay Island: 60-61, provided a brief account for Panay Island, Philippines. See brief account by Sanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos, Alcala, and Brown, 2016, ZooKeys, 624: 18–19. Pitogo, Saavedra, and Afuang, 2021, Philipp. J. Sci., 150: 1279–1306, provided a brief description of natural history and suggested that the Mindanao population is a distinct species.

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