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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.
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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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Limnonectes fujianensis Ye and Fei, 1994

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Limnonectes > Species: Limnonectes fujianensis

Nyctibatrachus sinensis Peters, 1882, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1882: 146. Holotype: ZMB 10373 according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 49. Type locality: "Mons Lofau (Provincia Canton) . . . . Lofau-Gebirge in der Provinz Canton (China)" = Lofau Mountains, Province of Guangdong, China. Given in error by Gee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 27, as "Hainan", China. Synonymy with Limnonectes kuhlii (sensu lato) by Boulenger, 1887, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2, 5: 482; Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 62. Considered incertae sedis in the subgenus Limnonectes by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 63. See synonymy of Paa spinosa. Jang-Liaw and Chou, 2011, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 28: 262, suggested that this may be a senior synonym of Limnonectes fujianensis, pending additional research. See also synonymy of Quasipaa spinosa.

Limnonectes fujianensis Ye and Fei, 1994, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 19: 494. Holotype: CIB 64I1438, by original designation. Type locality: "Longdu, Chongan [County], Fujian (27.44° N. 117.42° E); altitude 600 m", China.

English Names

Fujian Large-headed Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 202).

Distribution

Fujian, Hunan, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Jiangxi, China (see comment); Taiwan.

Comment

Similar to Limnonectes kuhlii according to the original publication. Formerly confused with Limnonectes kuhlii (e.g., Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 495; Pope and Boring, 1940, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 15: 13-86). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1340-1345, provided an account (including the Taiwan population of Limnonectes "kuhlii" in the range), figures, and map. See comment under Limnonectes kuhlii for additional relevant literature. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 358-359, provided a brief account for China including photographs of specimens and habitat. Jang-Liaw and Chou, 2011, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 28: 254-263, reported on molecular phylogeography. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 446-447, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Zhou, Qiu, Fang, Yang, Zhao, Fang, Zheng, and Liu, 2014, Zool. Res., Kunming, 35: 42–50, reported on call characteristics in China. Suwannapoom, Yuan, Chen, Hou, Zhao, Wang, Nguyen, Murphy, Sullivan, McLeod, and Che, 2016, Zootaxa, 4093: 181–200, suggested on the basis of molecular data that this species is the sister taxon of Limnonectes nameyi of Japan. See Limnonectes quangninhensis. Guo, Yang, and Li, 2009, Colored Illust. Amph. Rept. Taiwan: 82–83, provided a brief account, photographs, and map for Taiwan (as Limnonectes kuhlii). Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 274–277, provided an account for Hunan, China. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 57, provided a brief account for Guangdong, China, and photograph.

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