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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.
* = "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
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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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Nanorana laojunshanensis Tang, Liu, and Yu, 2023

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

Nanorana (Nanorana) laojunshanensis Tang, Liu, and Yu, 2023, Animals, 13(3427): 10. Holotype: GXNU YU090314, by original designation. Type locality: "Mt. Laojun, Lijiang, Yunnan, China (26°37’ N, 99°42’ E, 3982 m a.s.l.)." Zoobank publication registration: 20611D82-4452-4DD0-B330-15A239C5F3E0 (date either 6 November 2023 or 21 Dec 2023; some confusion on Zoobank record). Considered to be a junior synonym of Nanorana huangi by Jablonski and Hofmann, 2024, Alytes, 41: 42, on the basis of priority, in error.

Nanorana huangi Ji, Shi, Ma, Shen, Chang, and Jiang, 2023, Asian Herpetol. Res., 14: 308. Holotype: CIB YN201909255, by original designation. Type locality: "Jinghuadian wetland, Lanping County, Nujiang Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China (26.874593°N, 99.544008°E; 3 389 m a.s.l.)". Zoobank publication registration: D7936D56-CD21-48F5-BA3B-09AD79945132 (28 September 2023 according to Zoobank registration, but not available online as of 29 November 2023 according to Wayback Machine documentation, or 18 December 2024 by personal inspection [DRF] of Asian Herpetological Research).

Common Names

Laojunshan Slow Frog (Nanorana laojunshanensis [no longer recognized]: original designation).

Yellow–bellied Plateau Frog (Nanorana huangi [no longer recognized]: original publication).

Distribution

Alpine grass wetlands of Lijiang and Dali Prefectures of Yunnan Province, at elevations of 2900–3982 m.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Previously confused with Nanorana ventripunctatus and Nanorana pleskei populations from Weixi, Yunnan, China, with which this species forms the sister taxon of according to the original publication where molecular markers and adult and larval comparative morphology were detailed. Jablonski and Hofmann, 2024, Alytes, 41: 40–44, discussed the systematics and synonymy of Nanorana laojunshanensis.

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