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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 pictus Ahl, 1931

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

Hyperolius pictus Ahl, 1931, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 17: 44 . Holotype: ZMB unnumbered, according to the original publication; lost according to Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 215, and Poynton and Broadley, 1987, Ann. Natal Mus., 28: 195); ZMB 86001 is holotype according to Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 432. MCZ 17644–45 (on exchange from ZMB) are paratypes according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 130). Type locality: "Krater des Ngori-See's", Tanzania. The description in Ahl, 1931, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 17: 44, appeared a few weeks later according to Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 407–450.

Hyperolius ngoriensis Ahl, 1931, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 17: 60. Syntypes: ZMB (4 specimens) unnumbered, according to the original publication; ZMB 85760–85763 are syntypes according to Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 429.. Type locality: "Krater des Ngori-Sees (Deutsch-Ostafrika" (= Ngosi Crater Lake, Tanzania). Synonymy (with Hyperolius marginatus) by Loveridge, 1933, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 74: 346. The description in Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 324, appeared a few weeks later according Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 407–450.

English Names

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

Variable Reed Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 172).

Variable Montane Sedge Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 174 [alternative name]).

Distribution

Open grassland in highlands of southern Tanzania (Udzungwa Mountains, Southern Highlands, and Ufipa Plateau), northern Malawi, and extreme northwestern Zambia.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Hyperolius marginatus by Schiøtz, 1975, Treefrogs E. Afr.: 135, where it had been placed by Loveridge, 1933, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 74: 346. Formerly considered a synonym of Hyperolius kivuensis by Laurent, 1943, Ann. Mus. R. Congo Belge, Tervuren, Zool., 4: 67. See accounts by Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 184–185, Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 172–173, Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 174–176, and Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 360–362. Mercurio, 2011, Amph. Malawi: 181–182, provided an account for Malawi. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 219–220, reported on comparative tadpole morphology. Harper, Measey, Patrick, Menegon, and Vonesh, 2010, Field Guide Amph. E. Arc Mts. Tanzania and Kenya: 192–193, provided a brief account and photograph. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 208–209, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.

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