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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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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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Nanorana annandalii (Boulenger, 1920)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Nanorana > Species: Nanorana annandalii

Rana annandalii Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 77. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens, including 1947.2.1.93, which were originally ZSIC 18929 and 18931) and and ZSIC 18571 and 18573 according to Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 108; BMNH 1947.2.1.93 (formerly 1920.3.22.2) designated lectotype by Dubois, 1975, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 324: 1110. Type locality: "Sureil, Darjeeling district, 5500 ft., Suchal [= Senchal] Waterworks, near Ghoom, in the same district, . . . [and] Pashok, alt. 4500 ft.", India; restricted to Suchal waterworks near Ghoom, Darjeeling, India, by lectotype designation.

Rana (Rana) annandalii — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 8.

Rana (Paa) annandalii — Dubois, 1975, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 324: 1099; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 43.

Paa (Paa) annandalii — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 320.

Nanorana annandalii — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 239, by implication; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 367.

Chaparana (Paa) annandalii — Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 781.

Paa annandalii — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 26.

English Names

Annandale's Paa Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102; Schleich, Anders, and Kästle, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 79).

Annandale's Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 41).

Boulenger's Hill Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 85; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 29).

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

Distribution

Northeastern India (Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, and West Bengal; eastern Nepal record requires confirmation; expected in Bhutan (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India, Nepal

Likely/Controversially Present: Bhutan

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Paa blanfordii by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 320, where it had been placed by Dubois, 1979, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 48: 657–661. See account (as Rana annandalii) by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 76. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 85, provided a brief account as Rana annandalii. Literature of Nanorana annandalii from India may apply more correctly to Nanorana gammii according to XXX. Bordoloi, Borah, Chakravorty, and Sinha, 2001, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 80: 1219–1222, provided new records for Arunachal Pradesh, India, and commented on adult and larval morphology.Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted several larval descriptions of varying levels of completeness in the literature. Sarkar, Biswas, and Ray, 1992, State Fauna Ser., 3: 82–83, provided a brief account for West Bengal, India. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 149–150, provided range, systematic comments, and partial taxonomic bibliography. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 41–42, provided a brief characterization and photograph. Not addressed, and therefore not assigned to subgenus by Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107: 13765–13770, and Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., doi:10.1073/pnas.1008415107/-/DCSupplemental: 2. See Shah and Tiwari, 2004, Herpetofauna Nepal: 61, for brief account. See Subba, Aravind, and Ravikanth, 2016, Check List, 13(1: 2033): 6, for Sikkim, India, record. Khatiwada, Wang, Zhao, Xie, and Jiang, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 1–35, did not include this species in their list of Nepalese species so the identification of the specimens reported by Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 261–264, requires confirmation, Shrestha, Suwal, Pandey, Das, Manandhar, Karmacharya, Ohler, Dubois, and O'Connell, 2022, Zootaxa, 5168: 222–236, included this species in the Nepal fauna but did not map it. Tang, Liu, and Yu, 2023, Animals, 13(3427): 17, regarded the species as unassignable to subgenus.

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