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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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Hyperolius picturatus Peters, 1875

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hyperoliidae > Subfamily: Hyperoliinae > Genus: Hyperolius > Species: Hyperolius picturatus

Hyperolius picturatus Peters, 1875, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1875: 206. Syntypes: ZMB 3063 (5 specimens), according to Laurent, 1961, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 64: 79; now renumbered ZMB 3063 and ZMB 76991–76994 (formerly part of ZMB 3063), according to Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 433. . Type locality: "Boutry" (= mouth of River Butre), Ghana.

Rappia picturata — Matschie, 1893, Mitt. Forschungsreis. Gelehrten Deutsch Schutzgeb., 6: 215; Tornier, 1896, in Möbius (ed.), Deutsch Ost-Afr., 3: 153.

Hyperolius picturatus — Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 252, 263, 327.

Hyperolius festivus Barbour and Loveridge, 1927, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 10: 17. Holotype: MCZ 12018, by original designation. Type locality: "Firestone Plantation No. 3, Du River, Liberia". Synonymy by Laurent, 1958, Mem. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, 53: 275.

Hyperolius viridiflavus picturatus — Laurent, 1952 "1951", Ann. Soc. R. Zool. Belg., 82: 395.

English Names

Tanzania Reed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 67).

Variable Montane Sedge Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 73).

Painted Reed Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 184).

Distribution

Eastern Sierra Leone, Liberia, and southern Guinea through southern Ivory Coast to southwestern Ghana in forest.

Comment

Probably composed of two cryptic species of which the western form may be conspecific with Hyperolius baumanni and Hyperolius occidentalis, according to Schiøtz, 1967, Spolia Zool. Mus. Haun., 25: 192, and Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 113. Rödel and Bangoura, 2004, Tropical Zool., 17: 213-214, discussed this and suggested that evidence available did not support the existence of two species. See also comments under Hyperolius baumanni and Hyperolius occidentalis. Rödel, 2000, Herpetofauna W. Afr., 1: 227-229, provided an account and noted a number of misidentifications in the literature. Rödel and Branch, 2002, Salamandra, 38: 258, reported Hyperolius cf. picturatus from Ivory Coast. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 113–115, provided a brief account and map. Rödel and Glos, 2019, Zoosyst. Evol., 95: 23, reported this species from the Krahn-Bassa Proposed Protected Area in southeastern Liberia and the Foya Proposed Protected Area in western Liberia. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 184–185, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Kanga, Kouamé, Zogbass, Gongomin, Agoh, Kouamé, Konan, Adepo-Gourène, Gourène, and Rödel, 2021, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 15: 71–107, commented on conservation status, identification, range, and habitat on the Ivory Coast side of Mont Nimba.

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