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* = "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
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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
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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 jagorii (Peters, 1863)

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

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.

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

Platymantis (Lahatnanguri) jagorii — Pitogo, Hoskins, Tesfazion, Meneses, Cannon, Supsup, Decena, Sanguila, and Brown, 2026, Zootaxa, 5884: 280.

Common Names

Jagor’s Variable Forest Frog (original publication).

Distribution

Samar, Leyte, Bohol, and Siargao Islands, possibly on northeastern Mindanao, Philippines.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Philippines

Endemic: Philippines

Comment

Formerly placed into the synonymy of Platymantis dorsalis 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. Removed from the synonymy of Platymantis dorsalis by Pitogo, Hoskins, Tesfazion, Meneses, Cannon, Supsup, Decena, Sanguila, and Brown, 2026, Zootaxa, 5884: 280, on the basis of morphology, morphometrics, advertisement call, and molecular markers; placed as the sister taxon of Platymantis habagatan. See comment section under Platymantis dorsalis for access to literature under that name which potentially includes observations on this species. Reported, prior to the taxonomic partitioning, as Platymantis dorsalis from Leyte by Denzer, Henle, Margraf, and Milan, 1994, Ann. Trop. Res., 16: 44–69, and from Bohol by Aureo and Decena, 2023, Herpetol. Conserv. Biol., 18: 348–361, according to Pitogo, Hoskins, Tesfazion, Meneses, Cannon, Supsup, Decena, Sanguila, and Brown, 2026, Zootaxa, 5884: 280–281.

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