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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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Nanorana pleskei Günther, 1896

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

Nanorana Pleskei Günther, 1896, Annu. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 1: 207. Syntypes: Including ZISP 1958 (Sungpan) according to L.J. Borkin In Hu, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 463. Type locality: "Sung-pan" (= Songpan County) and "In-chuan [= Uomcjuan, probably Xiaojin Chuan river] in the Kham Mountains", Sichuan, China.

Nannorana pleskei — Werner, 1903, Abh. Math. Physik. Cl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., 22: 369. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Rana Pleskei — Boulenger, 1905, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 15: 378.

Rana (Nanorana) pleskei — Boulenger, 1918, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 43: 119; Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 107.

Montorana ahli Vogt, 1924, Zool. Anz., 60: 340. Syntypes: ZMB (9 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Dschiësongla, 3900 m hoher Pass südwestlich von Tatsiénlu", Sichuan, China. Type locality discussed by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 137. Synonymy by Stejneger, 1927, J. Washington Acad. Sci., 17: 319; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 220.

Nanorana pleskei — Lü and Yang, 1995, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 6: 69–72; Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 25.

Nanorana (Nanorana) pleskei — Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 781; Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., doi:10.1073/pnas.1008415107/-/DCSupplemental: 2; Hofmann, Baniya, Litvinchuk, Miehe, Li, and Schmidt, 2019, Ecol. Evol., 9: 14506.

Common Names

Songpan Slow Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102).

Pleske's High Altitude Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65).

Plateau Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 228).

Tibetan Frog (Khan, 2002, Bull. Chicago Herpetol. Soc., 37: 160).

Distribution

Eastern Tibet, south-central to northwestern Sichuan, eastern and south-central Qinghai, and southeastern Gansu, China, 3300-4500 m elevation. Recorded in Haa District, Bhutan.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bhutan, China, People's Republic of

Comment

Discussed by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 107; Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 323–328, and Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 220–221. According to Dubois and Khan, 1979, J. Herpetol., 13: 409, the Kashmir specimen reported by Mertens, 1969, Stuttgart. Beit. Naturkd., 197: 16, is referable to Nanorana vicina (as Rana). See discussion of type localities by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 137. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 295; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 228. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 181, provided a brief account and illustration. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 104–105. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted several larval descriptions of varying levels of completeness in the literature. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 630, who suggested that the Kashmir records are based on misidentifictions (e.g., Khan, 2002, Bull. Chicago Herpetol. Soc., 37: 161). Chen, Liu, Jiang, Xie, and Zheng, 2005, Herpetol. Sinica, 10: 47–51, discussed the species and provided a map (in legend given in error as Nanorana parkeri). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1463–1469, provided an account for China, figures, and map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 389, provided a brief accoun including photographs. Chen, Wang, Liu, Xie, and Jiang, 2011, Curr. Zool., Chengdu, 57: 785805, provided a complete mtDNA genome and discussed the phylogenetic placement of this species. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 482–483, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. Wangyal, 2013, J. Threatened Taxa, 5: 4777, provided records from Haa District, Bhutan. Yao and Gong, 2012, Amph. Rept. Gansu: 49–50, provided a brief account and photographs. Che, Jiang, Yan, and Zhang, 2020, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 286–290, provided a detailed account for Tibet, China. See comment under Nanorana huangi with which this species has been confused in Weixi, Yunnan, China. Leung, Tang, Yang, Wang, and Hu, 2024, Herpetologica, 80: 234–240, reported on the distribution and population status on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau.

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