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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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Platymantis dorsalis (Duméril, 1853)

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

Cornufer dorsalis Duméril, 1853, Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, Ser. 3, 19: 174. Holotype: MNHNP 4880 according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 41. Type locality: "Java"; in error according to Barbour, 1923, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 75: 112, who corrected the type locality to Fiji.

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

Halophila jagorii Peters, 1863, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 456. Holotype: ZMB 4914 according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 48. Type locality: "Insel Samar", Philippines. Synonymy by Brown and Inger, 1964, Copeia, 1964: 450-451; formerly tentatively identified as a senior synonym of Platymantis meyeri by Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 354.

Halophila platydactyla Günther, 1864, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 49. also described as new by Günther, 1864, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 14: 315. Holotype: BMNH by original designation. Type locality: "not known but it is probable that it came from one of the Feejee Islands". Given as "Fiji Islands" by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 108, who made the synonymy.

Platymantis meyeri Günther, 1873, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1873: 171. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.5.5 (formerly 1872.8.20.75) according to museum records. Type locality: "Laguna del Bay", Luzon, Philippines. Synonymy by Brown and Inger, 1964, Copeia, 1964: 450-451.

Cornufer jagorii — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 109.

Cornufer meyeri — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 109.

Platymantis meyeri — Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 1: 373; Zweifel, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 120 (by reference to Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2-3).

Cornufer laticeps Taylor, 1920, Philipp. J. Sci., 16: 317. Holotype: CM 3496 (formerly EHT 197), according to McCoy and Richmond, 1966, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 38: 246. Type locality: "Bunawan, Agusan, Mindanao", Philippines. Synonymy by Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 354 (with Platymantis meyeri); with Platymantis dorsalis by Brown and Inger, 1964, Copeia, 1964: 450-451.

Rana (Platymantis) dorsalis — Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 41.

Cornufer dorsalis — Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2.

Platymantis dorsalis — Zweifel, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 120. By reference to Brown, 1965, Breviora, 218: 2-3.

Platymantis (Lupacolus) dorsalis — Brown, Siler, Richards, Diesmos, and Cannatella, 2015, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 174: 147.

Common Names

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

Common Forest Frog (Gaulke, 2011, Herpetofauna Panay Island: 64).

Meyer's Wrinkled Ground Frog (Platymantis meyeri [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 105).

Distribution

Philippines, excluding Palawan and the Johol group of islands.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Philippines

Endemic: Philippines

Comment

See Brown and Inger, 1964, Copeia, 1964: 450, for synonymy and discussion. In Platymantis dorsalis group of Alcala and Brown, 1999, Philipp. J. Sci., 128: 283. Gaulke, 2011, Herpetofauna Panay Island: 64-65, provided a brief account for Panay Island, Philippines. Siler, Swab, Oliveros, Diesmos, Averia, Alcala, and Brown, 2012, Check List, 8: 443-462, reported Platymantis cf dorsalis from Tablas, Romblon, and Sibuyan, Philippines. Dandoy and Amarga, 2017, Herpetol. Rev., 48: 808, reported the species from Batan Island, Philippines. Meneses, Siler, Alviola, Balatibat, Gonzalez, Natividad, and Brown, 2022, Check List, 18: 941–984, reidentified the Sibuyan I., Philippines, records as Platymantis paengi.

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