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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 soror (Chabanaud, 1921)

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

Rappia soror Chabanaud, 1921, Bull. Com. Études Hist. Scient. Afr. Occid. Franç., 1921: 458. Syntypes: MNHNP 1921.185, according to the original publication. Type locality: "N'Zérékoré", Guinea.

Hyperolius soror — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 299.

Hyperolius wermuthi Laurent, 1961, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 64: 71-72. Holotype: MNHNP, according to Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 219. Type locality: "Boussou . . . , champ avec mare", Mont Nimba, Ivory Coast. Synonymy by Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 396. See comment.

Common Names

Soror Reed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 68).

Wermuth's Reed Frog (Hyperolius wermuthi [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 68).

Distribution

Sierra Leone through southern Guinea and adjacent Liberia, to Ivory Coast.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone

Comment

Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 220, and Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 109), regarded Hyperolius wermuthi as a likely synonym of Hyperolius soror and so similar to Hyperolius fusciventris that likely overlooked elsewhere. See brief account, as Hyperolius wermuthi, in Poynton and Broadley, 1987, Ann. Natal Mus., 28: 206. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status of nominal Hyperolius wermuthi in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 618, who noted that this taxon may be synonymous with Hyperolius soror. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 396, regarded this species as a synonym of Hyperolius soror. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 221–222, provided information on comparative larval morphology. 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.: 174–175, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. See comment under Hyperolius wermuthi which Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 396, regarded as a synonym. 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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