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* = "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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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 shini (Ahl, 1930)

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

Rana shini Ahl, 1930, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1930: 315. Syntypes: ZMB (originally 4 specimens), unnumbered according to the original publication; MCZ 17651 (on exchange from ZMB, is a syntype according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 184). Type locality: "Yao-schan [= Dayao Shan], Nordteil der Provinz Kwangsi [= Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region]", China, 1500 m.

Rana (Paa) shini — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 43.

Paa (Paa) shini — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 156; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 281.

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

Rana shini — Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 149.

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

Quasipaa shini — Frost, 2006, Amph. Spec. World, vers. 4.0: 358; 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 (not noted, but by implication).

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

Common Names

Chinese Paa Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 103).

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

Distribution

Northern Guangxi, southeastern Guizhou, central Hunan, southern Chongong, southeastern Ghiuzhou, to northern Guangxi, China, 510–1500 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Considered a synonym of Quasipaa spinosa (as Rana spinosa) by Liu, 1935, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 10: 55–60, but resurrected by Liu and Hu, 1962, Acta Zool. Sinica, 14 (Supplement): 76. See Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 142. For elevation of the type locality see Mell, 1930, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1930: 310. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 281; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 206–207. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 112, provided an account for Guangxi. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Paa shini) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 492. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1361–1365, provided an account (as Paa shini) for China, figures, and map, and included this species in their Paa boulengeri group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 374–375, provided a brief account (as Paa shini) including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 468–469, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Kong, Zheng, and Zhang, 2016, Zootaxa, 4205: 87–89, reported on advertisement call. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 283–286, provided an account for Hunan, China. Zhang, 2017, Amph. Rept. Fanjing Mts.: 155–157, provided taxonomic and natural history information for the Fanjing Mountains population in northeastern Guizhou, China. Gao, Dong, Li, Wang, Jiang, Yang, and Wang, 2019, MtDNA, Part B, 4: 1479–1483, presented mtDNA phylogeographic evidence that this taxon is composed of at least two, maybe more, cryptic species. Yan, Nneji, Jin, Yuan, Chen, Mi, Chen, Murphy, and Che, 2021, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 163 (107218): 1–7, reported on phylogenetics and phylogeography.

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