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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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Afrixalus laevis (Ahl, 1930)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hyperoliidae > Subfamily: Hyperoliinae > Genus: Afrixalus > Species: Afrixalus laevis

Megalixalus laevis Ahl, 1930, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1930: 93. Holotype: ZMB, by original designation, although Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 442, noted that the holotype is unlocated in the ZMB. Type locality: "Kamerun". Possibly from “Albrechtshöhe, Kamerun” according to Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 442.

Afrixalus laevis — Guibé, 1948, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 20: 500, by implication; Laurent, 1950, Explor. Parc Natl. Albert, Miss. G.F. de Witte (1933–1935), 64: 24; Perret, 1960, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 61: 372.

Afrixalus (Laurentixalus) laevis — Amiet, 2012, Rainettes Cameroun: 111.

English Names

Liberia Banana Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).

Smooth Spiny Reed Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 137).

Distribution

Rainforests of southern Cameroon to northern Gabon; possibly extending into extreme southeastern Nigeria, northern Equatorial Guinea, southwestern Central African Republic, intervening extreme northern Rep. Congo.

Comment

See comment under Afrixalus vibekensis. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 56, provided a brief account and map. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 137–138, provided an account for that region. Amiet, 2009, Rev. Suisse Zool., 116: 82–84, provided an account for Cameroon and suggested this species to be close to Afrixalus fulvovittatus. See account for Cameroon by Amiet, 2012, Rainettes Cameroun: 111–117. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 189–190, reported on comparative tadpole morphology. Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 21, summarized the literature for Gabon and provided photographs (p. 55). Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 158–159, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. See comments by Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 442, regarding the missing holotype. Records from eastern Dem. Rep. Congo and Uganda were referred to Afrixalus phantasma and Afrixalus lacustris by Greenbaum, Portik, Allen, Vaughan, Badjedjea, Barej, Behangana, Conkey, Dumbo, Gonwouo, Hirschfeld, Hughes, Igunzi, Kasumba, Lukwago, Masudi, Penner, Reyes, Rödel, Roelke, Romero, and Dehling, 2022, Zootaxa, 5174: 201–232. Dehling and Sinsch, 2023, Diversity, 15 (512): 66, discussed the the populations now transferred to either Afrixalus phantasma (those from Rwanda) or Afrixalus lacustris.

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