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* = "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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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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Minervarya charlesdarwini (Das, 1998)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Minervarya > Species: Minervarya charlesdarwini

Rana charlesdarwini Das, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 42. Holotype: ZSIC A8890, by original designation. Type locality: "ca. 0.3 km N of summit of Mount Harriet (10° 45′ N and 92° 46′ E), Mount Harriet National Park, South Andaman Island, Bay of Bengal, India; altitude 365 m above msl".

Limnonectes charlesdarwini — Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 157.

Ingerana charlesdarwini — Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 36.

Minervarya charlesdarwini — Garg, Sivaperuman, Gokulakrishnan, Gopika, Das, and Biju, 2022, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 72: 169.

Common Names

Charles Darwin's Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 37).

Darwin's Cricket Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 4).

Distribution

Andaman Island (South Andaman [Mount Harriet National Park], North Andaman [Saddle Peak National Park], Little Andaman, Rutland, Long Island, Havelock Island, Neil Island, Tarmugli Island, Alexandria Island and Redskin Island), India, 30 to 600 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Thought to be close to Ingerana in the original publication, though tentatively retained in Rana because of incongruencies in certain diagnostic characters. Moved to Ingerana in this catalogue due to the reformulation of Rana to a well-diagnosed group by subsequent literature. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted one extended larval descriptions oin the literature (as Limnonectes charlesdarwini). See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana charlesdarwini) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 501. See account by Chandramouli, 2017, Alytes, 33: 47–54, who discussed the taxonomic history, recent collections, and range and considered the generic assignment to be provisional. Harikrishnan and Vasudevan, 2018, Alytes, 36: 251–252, commented on the distribution and natural history in the Andaman Islands, India. Garg, Sivaperuman, Gokulakrishnan, Gopika, Das, and Biju, 2022, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 72: 169–199, transferred the species to Minervarya on the basis of molecular data, as the sister taxon of Minervarya andamanensis. Gopika, Garg, Sivaperuman, Gokulakrishnan, and Biju, 2023, Zootaxa, 5353: 567–581, described larval morphology and natural history.

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