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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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Liurana medogensis Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1997

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ceratobatrachidae > Subfamily: Liuraninae > Genus: Liurana > Species: Liurana medogensis

Liurana medogensis Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1997, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 6–7: 75, 80. Holotype: CIB 73II0080, by original designation. Type locality: "Medog (29° 22′ N, 95° 35′ E), Xizang, 1500 m", China.

Ingerana medogensis — 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: 366.

Liurana medogensis — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 30. See comment under Dicroglossidae.

Limnonectes (Taylorana) medogensis — Borah, Bordoloi, Purkayastha, Das, Dubois, and Ohler, 2013, Herpetozoa, Wien, 26: 39.

Liurana medogensis — Yan, Jiang, Jin, Suwannapoom, Li, Vindum, Brown, and Che, 2016, Zool. Res., Kunming, 37: 7.

English Names

Medog Papilla-tongued Frog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 392; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 3).

Medog Eastern Frog (Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 51).

Distribution

Known from the vicinity of the type locality (Medog County, Xizang, China), 2700 to 3200 m elevation, and in the districts of West Siang, Lower Subansiri, Dibang Valley, and Lower Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh (see comment), northeastern India, 851 to 2500 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, India

Comment

See (as Liurana medogensis) Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 224–225, for brief account, figure, and map. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1481–148, provided an account for China (as Liurana medogensis), figures, and map, and placed this species in their Liurana xizangensis group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 382-383, provided a brief account (as Liurana medogensis) including photographs of specimens and habitat. Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 51-52, provided an account. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 488, provided an account (as Liurana medogensis), photographs, and a range map for China. Borah, Bordoloi, Purkayastha, Das, Dubois, and Ohler, 2013, Herpetozoa, Wien, 26: 39–49, discussed specimens from Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Roy, Begum, and Ahmed, 2019, J. Threatened Taxa, 10: 12942, reported the species throughout Dibang Valley District and Lower Dibang Valley District, Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. Saikia and Sinha, 2019, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 119: 303–315, implied that records of this species from India are unlikely to be nominal Liurana medogensis, either newly named (e.g., Liurana minuta, Liurana indica, Liurana himalayana), or still unnamed.

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