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
	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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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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Fejervarya sakishimensis Matsui, Toda, and Ota, 2008

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Fejervarya > Species: Fejervarya sakishimensis

Fejervarya sakishimensis Matsui, Toda, and Ota, 2008 "2007", Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 26: 67. Holotype: KUHE 39865, by original designation. Type locality: "Omoto (124° 11′ E, 24° 22′ N, alt. 60 m) in Ishigaki-shi, Okinawa Prefecture (Ishigakijima Island of the Yaeyama Group, Southern Ryukyus), Japan".

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Southern Ryukyus, Japan; eastern Taiwan.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Japan, Taiwan

Comment

Possibly conspecific with populations of nominal Fejervarya limnocharis in eastern Taiwan, China, according to the original publication. Kotaki, Kurabayashi, Matsui, Kuramoto, Tjong, and Sumida, 2010, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 27: 386-395, suggested that the populations formerly assigned to Fejervarya limnocharis from Japan, the southern Ryukyuas, and eastern Taiwan are assignable to this species or, possibly, three distinct species. Reviewed (as Rana limnocharis) by Okada, 1966, Fauna Japon., Anura: 112-121. Nishioka and Sumida, 1990, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 10: 125-154, provided electrophoretic data that suggest that Fejervarya "limnocharis" on Taiwan, the southern Ryukyus, and the main islands of Japan represent three species (a supposition supported by Highton, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 235). Toda, Nishida, Matsui, Wu, and Ota, 1997, Biochem. Syst. Ecol., 25: 143-159, discussed lineage structure within nominal Fejervarya limnocharis, and suggested that the population from the southern Ryukyus are genetically distinct from populations in the central Ryukyus, Japan, Taiwan, and mainland China (now regarded as Fejervarya multistriata and Fejervarya kawamurai, among others). Tjong, Matsui, Kuramoto, Nishioka, and Sumida, 2011, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 28:922-929, redelimited the species, transferring the Japanese populations to Fejervarya kawamurai and restricting this species to eastern Taiwan and the southern Ryukyus. Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 72-73, provided a brief account as Fejervarya limnocharis for Taiwan (presumably based on Fejervarya multistriata and Fejervarya sakishimensis).

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