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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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Quasipaa boulengeri (Günther, 1889)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Dicroglossidae > Subfamily: Dicroglossinae > Genus: Quasipaa > Species: Quasipaa boulengeri

Rana Boulengeri Günther, 1889, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 4: 222. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens); BMNH 1947.2.3.86 designated lectotype by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 44. Type locality: "Ichang" (= Yicheng), Hubei, China.

Rana tibetana Boulenger, 1917, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 20: 414. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.3.63, according to XXX. Type locality: "Yin tsin wau [=Yintsinwan], Wassu State [= Yin Xiu Wan], Tibet", now in part of Sichuan, China. Synonymy by Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 153, and Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 44.

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

Rana (Paa) boulengeri — Dubois, 1975, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 324: 1098; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 43.

Rana boulengeri — Inger, Zhao, Shaffer, and Wu, 1990, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 58: 9.

Paa (Paa) boulengeri — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 156; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 273; Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 182.

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

Nanorana boulengeri — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 239, by implication.

Quasipaa robertingeri — Jiang, Dubois, Ohler, Tillier, Chen, Xie, and Stöck, 2005, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 22: 358; Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 781.

Quasipaa boulengeri — Jiang, Dubois, Ohler, Tillier, Chen, Xie, and Stöck, 2005, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 22: 358.

Quasipaa tibetana — Ohler and Dubois, 2006, Zoosystema, 28: 781. Undiscussed elevation.

Quasipaa (Quasipaa) boulengeri — Che, Zhou, Hu, Papenfuss, Wake, and Zhang, 2010, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., doi:10.1073/pnas.1008415107/-/DCSupplemental: 2.

Paa boulenger — Yao and Gong, 2012, Amph. Rept. Gansu: 51. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

English Names

Boulenger's Paa Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102).

Spiny-bellied Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 204).

Boulenger's Spiny Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 24).

Distribution

Northern Vietnam from Cao Bang, Song La, Nghe An, Ha Giang, and Tuyen Quang Provinces (see comment), north to southern and southwestern China, from the Vietnam border area northward to Sichuan (Hechuan County), southern Shaanxi, southern Gansu, and east to western Jianxian and southern Hunan, isolated population in southern Shanxi, 300–1900 m elevation.

Comment

From 2009 to 2021, this nominal species usually included Quasipaa robertingeri as a synonym, removed from that synonymy of Quasipaa boulengeri by Wang, Du, Wei, Wang, Li, and Lu, 2021, MtDNA, Part B, 6: 668, where it had been placed by Che, Hu, Zhou, Murphy, Papenfuss, Chen, Rao, Li, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 50: 71 and Zhang, Zhang, Yu, Storey, and Zheng, 2018, BMC Evol. Biol., 18(26): 12. As a result caution should be employed using that literature. Account (including Rana spinosa) provided by Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 263–272. See Rana spinosa. See also account by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 295–299, and (as Rana tibetana) by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 70. See accounts by Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 120–122; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 273; Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 84–85, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 204–206. See comments under Quasipaa verrucospinosa. Fan, Guo, and Liu, 1998, Amph. Rept. Shanxi Prov.: 71–73, provided an account (as Paa boulengeri) for Shanxi. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 110, provided an account (as Paa boulengeri) for Guangxi. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 182–184, provided a brief account and illustration (as Paa boulengeri). Bain and Nguyen, 2004, Am. Mus. Novit., 3453: 1–42, provided a record for Ha Giang Province, Vietnam. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 24, provided specific localities for Vietnam. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 83–84, provided a brief account (as Paa boulengeri) for Yunnan, China. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Paa boulengeri) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 489. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1351–1361, provided an account (as Paa boulengeri) for China, figures, and map, and included this species in their Paa boulengeri group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 360–361 (as Paa boulengeri), provided a brief account for China including photographs of specimens and habitat. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543–583, in their study of Genbank sequences, did not find Quasipaa robertingeri to be adjacent to Quasipaa boulengeri. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 460–461, provided accounts (Quasipaa boulengeri: 460–461; Quasipaa robertingeri: 466–467), photographs, and range maps for China. Yao and Gong, 2012, Amph. Rept. Gansu: 51, provided a brief account and photographs. Yan, Zhou, Zhao, Yuan, Wang, Jiang, Jin, Murphy, Che, and Zhang, 2013, Mol. Ecol., 22: 1120–113, reported on mtDNA phylogeography. Shan, Xia, Zheng, Zou, and Zeng, 2014, Mitochondrial DNA, 25: 83–84, reported the complete mtDNA genome. Zhang, 2017, Amph. Rept. Fanjing Mts.: 153–155, provided taxonomic and natural history information for the Fanjing Mountains population in northeastern Guizhou, China. Yuan, Yuan, Liu, Xia, and Zeng, 2017, Genome, 60: 707–711, reported on chromosomal rearrangement polymorphisms. Zhang, Zhang, Yu, Storey, and Zheng, 2018, BMC Evol. Biol., 18(26): 11, discussed the status of Quasipaa robertingeri and confirmed its synonymy with Quasipaa boulengeri (but see Quasipaa robertingeri record). Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 278–283, provided an account for Hunan, China. Xia, Yuan, Luo, Yuan, and Zeng, 2020, Frontiers in Genetics, 10 (1364): 1–13, reported on evolution of chromosomal translocations. Le, Luong, Pham, Phan, Nguyen, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2021, Bonn Zool. Bull., 70: 201–219, provided natural history notes and a record from Tuyen Quang Province, Vietnam. Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 26–27, implied that this nominal species is a species complex by referring to it as Quasipaa cf. boulengeri and stating that the taxonomic status of the Vietnam population requires study. Yan, Nneji, Jin, Yuan, Chen, Mi, Chen, Murphy, and Che, 2021, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 163 (107218): 1–7, reported on phylogenetics and phylogeography, and recovered populations from Tam Dao, Vinh Phu, Vietnam and Pingbian, Yunnan, China, as an unnamed species, closely related to Quasipaa boulengeri.

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