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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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Limnonectes nitidus (Smedley, 1932)

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

Rana nitida Smedley, 1932 "1931", Bull. Raffles Mus., 6: 107. Syntypes: Not stated but BMNH 1947.2.1.35 (formerly 1931.10.8.1), 1931.10.8.2, and ZRC 1.849–850 considered syntypes by Das and Lim, 2001, Raffles Bull. Zool., 49: 8, and museum records; ectotype designation by implication ("holotype") considered to be BMNH 1931.10.8.1 (now reregistered as 1947.2.1.35), by Kiew, 1975 "1974", Malayan Nat. J., 28: 107; Type locality: "Tanah Rata", Pahang, Malaya, Malaysia. Das and Lim, 2001, Raffles Bull. Zool., 49: 8, gave the additional locality of "'Brichang Rd' (in the Cameron Highlands, Pahang, West Malaysia" for ZRC 1.850 a purported syntype.

Limnonectes (Limnonectes) nitidus — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 63.

English Names

Tanah Rata Wart Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 100).

Distribution

Known only from the Cameron Highlands and Fraser's Hill of Pahang, Raub District, Peninsular Malaysia, 900–1500 m elevation; one questionable record from Phang Nga Province, Thailand (see comment).

Comment

In the Limnonectes (Limnonectes) kuhlii group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 63. See Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 285–286. See comment under Limnonectes tweediei. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 100. Leong and Lim, 2003, Raffles Bull. Zool., 51: 126–128, provided a record from Raub District, Pahang, West Malaysia, and described larval morphology. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 483. Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 25, suggested on biogeographic grounds that the record of Limnonectes nitidus (Grosjean, Bordoloi, Chuaynkern, Chakravarty, and Ohler, 2015, Zootaxa, 4058: Suppl. data, Appendix A) from Phang Nga Province, Thailand, is likely a misidentification of Limnonectes pseudodoriae; the identification of this specimen requires confirmation.

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