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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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Hyla tsinlingensis Liu and Hu, 1966

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Genus: Hyla > Species: Hyla tsinlingensis

Hyla tsinlingensis Liu and Hu In Hu, Zhao, and Liu, 1966, Acta Zool. Sinica, 18: 74, 89. Holotype: CIB 623149, by original designation. Type locality: "Hou-tseng-tze, Couchih Hsien, Shensi [= Shaanxi], alt. 1,341 m", China.

Hyla annectans chuanxiensis Ye and Fei In Ye, Fei, Li, and Li, 2000, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 8: 90, 93. Holotype: CIB XI0725, by original designation. Type locality: "Zishi, Tianquan County (102° 36′ E, 30° 03′ N), Sichuan Province, altitude 900 m", China. Synonymy by Yan, Pan, Wu, Kang, Ali, Zhou, Li, Wu, and Zhang, 2020, Frontiers Ecol. Evol., 8 (234): 10, by implication of treating "Clade A" as a single lineage-species.

Hyla gongshanensis chuanxiensis — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 617.

Hyla tsinglingensis — Yao and Gong, 2012, Amph. Rept. Gansu: 41. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Hyla (Hyla) tsinlingensis — Fouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 331, by implication.

Hyla chuanxiensis — Dufresnes and Litvinchuk, 2022, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 195: 711.

Common Names

Shensi Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 58).

Tsinling Tree Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 148).

Chuanxi Tree Toad (Hyla annectans chuanxiensis: Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 162).

秦岭雨蛙 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 7).

Distribution

Southern Gansu (Huexian and Tianshui), southern Shaanxi (Dabashan, Liuba, Ningqiang, Ningshan, Taibai, Yangxian, and Zhouzhi counties), and Chongqing (Chengkou and Wushan) and nearby Sichuan, 930 to 1770 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Related to Hyla annectans according to the original publication. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 148-149, provided a brief description, map, and figure. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 165, provided a brief account and illustration. Zhang, 2002, Sichuan J. Zool., 21: 198-199, provided a key to differentiate this species from others in China. In the Hyla arborea group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 102, and Hua, Fu, Li, Nieto-Montes de Oca, and Wiens, 2009, Herpetologica, 65: 246-259. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 640-644, provided an account and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 257, provided a brief account. In the Hyla chinensis group of Li, Wang, Nian, Litvinchuk, Wang, Li, Rao, and Klaus, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 87: 80–90. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 849–851, provided an account, photograph, and spot map. Yao and Gong, 2012, Amph. Rept. Gansu: 41–42, provided a brief account and photographs. Skorinov, Li, Skorinova, Pasynkova, and Litvinchuk, 2020, North-West. J. Zool., Romania, 16: 172–177, reported on chromosome heteromorphism. Yan, Pan, Wu, Kang, Ali, Zhou, Li, Wu, and Zhang, 2020, Frontiers Ecol. Evol., 8 (234): 1–13, demonstrated that nominal Hyla chinensis was composed of at least 6 lineages, of which one, their "Clade A" is composed of Hyla tsinglingensis and former Hyla chianxuensis. Population from the Dabieanshan (Shucheng and Yuexi, Anhui Province) was segregated as Hyla dabieshanensis by Zhang, Zhang, Cai, Yu, Pang, Jiang, Ding, Gong, and Zhang, 2025, Zool. Res., Kunming, 2: 42–54, who reported on the comparative morphology, advertisement calls, and molecular markers of the two species.

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