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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
	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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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 exilispinosa (Liu and Hu, 1975)

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

Rana exilispinosa Liu and Hu, 1975, Acta Zool. Sinica, 21: 265. Holotype: CIB 64II06414, by original designation. Type locality: Daiyun Shan, Fujian, altitude 1100 m, China.

Rana (Paa) paraspinosa Dubois, 1975, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 3, Zool., 324: 1102. Holotype: BMNH 1956.1.9.79, by original designation. Type locality: "Hong-Kong", China. Corrected to "The Peak, Hong-Kong", China, by Dubois, 1979, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 48: 656. Synonymy by Dubois, 1979, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 48: 649–656.

Rana (Paa) exilispinosa — Dubois, 1979, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 48: 649–656; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 43.

Paa (Paa) exilispinosa — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 156.

Paa (Quasipaa) exilispinosa — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 319–320.

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

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

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

Common Names

Hong Kong Spiny Frog (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 22).

Common Spiny Frog (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 22).

Lesser Spiny Frog (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 22).

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

Little Spiny Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 206).

Distribution

Isolated populations in Hong Kong, Fujian, Guangdong, western and northern Guangxi, southern Jiangxi, and southern Hunan, China, up to 1400 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Hong Kong

Comment

Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 206–208, provided a brief account, map, and figure. Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 22, also provided a brief account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Paa exilispinosa) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 490. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1365–1371, provided an account (as Paa exilispinosa) for China, figures, and map, and included this species in their Paa spinosa group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 462–463, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 286–289, provided an account for Hunan, China. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 58, provided a brief account for Guangdong, China, and photograph. Wu, Chen, and Wu, 2020, MtDNA, Part B, 5: 2705–2706, reported on the complete mtDNA genome. Chen, Hu, Zhong, Shangguan, and Ding, 2021, Zootaxa, 4926: 446–450, reported on advertisement calls. Yan, Nneji, Jin, Yuan, Chen, Mi, Chen, Murphy, and Che, 2021, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 163 (107218): 1–7, found mtDNA evidence of hybridization with Quasipaa spinosa, its sister species, and provided a map of samples, which implies that records from southern Hunan and northern Guangxi require confirmation (DRF).

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