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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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Euphlyctis ehrenbergii (Peters, 1863)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Euphlyctis > Species: Euphlyctis ehrenbergii

Rana Ehrenbergii Peters, 1863, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 79, Syntypes: ZMB 3194 (2 specimens), 3195 (2 specimens), 3196 (3 specimens) according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 50. Type locality: "Arabien". "Probably from the vicinity of Al Qunfidah, 19° 30′ N, 42° 00′ E", Yemen, according to Balletto, Cherchi, and Gasperetti, 1985, Fauna Saudi Arabia, 7: 374, Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 374, and similarly considered by Schätti and Günther, 2001, Mitt. Mus. Naturkd. Berlin, Zool., 77: 154, to come from the "hinterlands of al Qunfudhah, at 19° 08′ N 41° 05′ E".

Rana cyanophlyctis ehrenbergi — Parker, 1941, Exped. SW Arabia 1937–1938, 1, 1: 5; Schmidt, 1953, Fieldiana, Zool., 34: 256; Khan, 1997, Pakistan J. Zool., 29: 107-112.

Rana (Dicroglossus) cyanophlyctis ehrenbergii — Dubois, 1974, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 213: 379.

Rana (Euphlyctis) ehrenbergi — Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 240.

Euphlyctis ehrenbergi — Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 124, by implication.

Occidozyga (Euphlyctis) ehrenbergi — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 59.

Euphlyctis ehrenbergi — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 315.

Euphlyctis (Euphlyctis) ehrenbergi — Dufresnes, Mahony, Prasad, Kamei, Masroor, Khan, Al-Johany, Gautam, Gupta, Borkin, Melnikov, Rosanov, Skorinov, Borzée, Jablonski, and Litvinchuk, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (2102686): 1.

Common Names

Arabian Five-fingered Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 99).

Arabian Skittering Frog (Schätti and Desvoignes, 1999, Herpetofauna S. Yemen and Sokotra: 33).

Distribution

Western Arabian Peninsula (Saudi Arabia and Yemen) north to at least Al-Madinah Al-Minawwarah Province, western Saudi Arabia); introduced into Riyadh, east-central Saudi Arabia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Saudi Arabia, Yemen

Introduced: Saudi Arabia

Comment

Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 240, removed this species from the synonymy of Rana cyanophlyctis, where it had been placed by Boulenger, 1896, Zool. Rec., 32: 32; Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 12. Treated as a subspecies of Rana cyanophlyctis by Khan, 1997, Pakistan J. Zool., 29: 107-112. See Balletto, Cherchi, and Gasperetti, 1985, Fauna Saudi Arabia, 7: 374-384, for account. Roy and Elepfandt, 1993, J. Biosciences, Bangalore, 18: 381-393, supported the distinctiveness of this species from Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis on the basis of call characteristics. See comments by Schätti and Desvoignes, 1999, Herpetofauna S. Yemen and Sokotra: 33-34. Lever, 2003, Naturalized Rept. Amph. World: 201, noted an introduced population in the Riyadh, eastern Saudi Arabia. Briggs and Ault, 1985, Herpetol. Rev., 16: 72-75, detailed the range in southwestern Saudi Arabia. Leviton, Anderson, Adler, and Minton, 1992, Handb. Middle East Amph. Rept.: 147-148, provided a brief account. Al-Qahtani and Al-Johany, 2018, Saudi J. Biol. Sci., 25: 1380–1386, discussed and mapped this species in southwestern Saudi Arabia. Al-Qahtani and Amer, 2019, Eur. Zool. J., 86: 173–179, reported on intraspecific variation in 16S rDNA in Yemen and adjacent Saudi Arabia. In the Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis group of Dinesh, Channakeshavamurthy, Deepak, Ghosh, and Deuti, 2021, Zootaxa, 4990: 329–353. Aloufi, Amr, and Abu Baker, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28: 126, provided records from Al-Madinah Al-Minawwarah Province, western Saudi Arabia, and discussed the range within that country. Dufresnes, Mahony, Prasad, Kamei, Masroor, Khan, Al-Johany, Gautam, Gupta, Borkin, Melnikov, Rosanov, Skorinov, Borzée, Jablonski, and Litvinchuk, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (2102686): 1–25, discussed the systematics of this species and its phylogenetic place within the genus.

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