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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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Minervarya muangkanensis (Suwannapoom, Yuan, Jiang, Yan, Gao, and Che, 2017)

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

Fejervarya muangkanensis Suwannapoom, Yuan, Jiang, Yan, Gao, and Che, 2017, Zool. Res., Kunming, 38: 245. Holotype: KIZ 024627, by original designation. Type locality: "Ban Tha Khanun, Thong Pha Phum, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand (N15°11'52.73", E98°19'29.71"; 712 m a.s.l.)".

Minervarya muangkanensis — Here (26 Oct. 2018; in reference to revision of Sanchez, Biju, Islam, Hasan, Ohler, Vences, and Kurabayashi, 2018, Salamandra, 54: 109–116.

English Names

Kanchanaburi Rain-pool Frog (original publication).

Muangkan Dwarf Grassfrog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 23).

Distribution

Known only from small swamps in secondary forests at elevations between 700–900 m in Thong Pha Phum, Kanchanaburi Province, western Thailand, and disjunctly in mainland (Ayeyarwady, Bago, Chin, Kachin, Rakhine) and peninsular (Tanintharyi) Myanmar.

Comment

In the original publication shown by mtDNA analysis to be imbedded within Fejervarya sensu lato, this clade subsequently partitioned by Sanchez, Biju, Islam, Hasan, Ohler, Vences, and Kurabayashi, 2018, Salamandra, 54: 109–116, who provided a tree that would place this species within Minervarya as implied by the tree provided by Suwannapoom, Yuan, Jiang, Yan, Gao, and Che, 2017, Zool. Res., Kunming, 38: 246. Köhler, Mogk, Khaing, and Than, 2019, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 69: 183–226, provided an account of the Myanmar populations, reported on the phylogenetic placement of the species and described its advertisement call. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 288–289, provided a brief account (description, photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). See comment under Minervarya andamanensis. Garg and Biju, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 345–370, summarized the systematics (morphology and molecular markers) of this member of the Minervarya andamanensis group and mapped its distribution. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 23, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar.

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