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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 nepalensis (Dubois, 1975)

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

Rana nepalensis Dubois, 1975, C. R. Hebd. Séances Acad. Sci., Paris, 281: 1720. Holotype: MNHNP 1975.1606, by original designation. Type locality: "Godavari, Centre-Népal, alt. 1560 m".

Rana (Euphlyctis) nepalensis — Dubois, 1980 "1978", C. R. Séances Soc. Biogeogr., 55: 161.

Rana (Fejervarya) nepalensis — Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 149.

Euphlyctis nepalensis — Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 124, by implication.

Limnonectes (Fejervarya) nepalensis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 61.

Fejervarya nepalensis — Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 71, by implication; Dubois and Ohler, 2000, Alytes, 18: 35; Fei, Ye, Jiang, and Xie, 2002, Herpetol. Sinica, 9: 92; Dinesh, Vijayakumar, Channakeshavamurthy, Torsekar, Kulkarni, and Shanker, 2015, Zootaxa, 3999: 79.

Zakerana nepalensis — Howlader, 2011, Bangladesh Wildl. Bull., 5: 2.

Minervarya nepalensis — Sanchez, Biju, Islam, Hasan, Ohler, Vences, and Kurabayashi, 2018, Salamandra, 54: 115.

Common Names

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

Nepal Warty Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 31).

Nepal Cricket Frog (Schleich, Anders, and Kästle, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 79; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 4).

Distribution

Central and eastern Nepal at moderate elevations; northern India in Haryana, and Uttararkhand; Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, and Manipur in northeastern India, and adjacent northeastern (Nilphamari and Thakurgaon districts) to southeastern (Chittagong region) of Bangladesh; Samdrup-jongkhar District, southeastern Bhutan.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal

Comment

See original publication for discussion of confusion of this species with Fejervarya limnocharis. Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 244-246, provided an account for the Nepal population. Ao, Bordoloi, and Ohler, 2003, Zoos' Print J., 18: 1117-1125, provided records for Nagaland, northeastern India. Ningombam and Bordoloi, 2007, Zoos' Print J., 22: 2688-2690, provided a record for Manipur, northeastern India. Borthakur, Kalita, Hussain, and Sengupta, 2007, Zoos' Print J., 22: 2639-2643, compared the species of northwestern India (Fejervarya nepalensis, Fejervarya pierrei, Fejervarya syhadrensis, and Fejervarya teraiensis). Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature (as both Fejervarya nepalensis and Limnonectes nepalensis). Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 31, provided a brief characterization and photographs. Rasel, Hannan, and Howlader, 2007, Bangladesh Wildl. Bull., 2007: 1-3, reported this species for Bangladesh. See Shah and Tiwari, 2004, Herpetofauna Nepal: 56, for brief account (as Limnonectes nepalensis) for Nepal. Bahuguna, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 298, reported the species from Uttarakhand and Haryana, India. . Wangyal, 2013, J. Threatened Taxa, 5: 4776, provided records from Samdrup-Jongkha District, southeastern Bhutan. See Subba, Aravind, and Ravikanth, 2016, Check List, 13(1: 2033): 8, for Sikkim, India, record. Kharkongor and Saikia, 2017, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 117: 286–288, provided records from East Khasi Hillis, Meghalaya, northeastern India. Gautam, Chalise, Thapa, and Bhattarai, 2020, IRCF Rept. & Amph., 27: 18–28, briefly discussed abundance and elevational range in the Ghandruk region of central Nepal. Purkayastha, Khan, and Roychoudhury, 2020, in Roy et al. (eds.), Socio-economic and Eco-biological Dimensions in Resource use and Conservation, Environmental Science and Engineering: 225–233, provided a record for Rowa Wildlife Sanctuary, Tripura, India. Khatiwada, Wang, Zhao, Xie, and Jiang, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 1–35, discussed the species in Nepal. Garg and Biju, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 345–370, summarized the systematics (morphology and molecular markers) of this member of the Minervarya syhadrensis group and mapped its distribution. Rabbe, Jaman, Alam, Rahman, and Sarker, 2022, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 16: 226–234, provided records for northwestern Bangladesh.

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