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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 substriatus Ahl, 1931

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

Hyperolius substriatus Ahl, 1931, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 17: 84. Holotype: ZMB unnumbered, according to the original publication; ZMB 36099 according to Laurent, 1961, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 64: 81, and Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 435. Type locality: "Magrotto bei Tanga", Tanzania. The description in Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 358, appeared a few weeks later according to Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 407–450.

Hyperolius scriptus Ahl, 1931, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 17: 32. Holotype: ZMB unnumbered according to the original publication; ZMB 36087, according to Laurent, 1961, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 64: 81. Type locality: "Tanga", Tanzania. Synonymy with Rappia puncticulata by Laurent, 1961, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 64: 81. The description in Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 287, appeared a few weeks later according to Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 407–450.

Hyperolius puncticulatus choloensis — Loveridge, 1953, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 110: 359. Holotype: MCZ 27270, by original designation. Type locality: "Cholo [= Thyolo] Mountain, at about 3500 ft., Nyasaland [= Malawi]". Distinctiveness of subspecies from Hyperolius puncticulatus puncticulatus rejected by Poynton, 1964, Senckenb. Biol., 45; 195. Placed in this synonymy by Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 336.

Hyperolius puncticulatus substriatus — Loveridge, 1957, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 117: 331.

Hyperolius puncticulatus scriptus — Laurent, 1961, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 64: 81.

Hyperolius substriatus — Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 334.

Common Names

Coastal Reed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 68 [as Hyperolius puncticulatus]).

Yellow-spotted Reed Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 73 [as Hyperolius puncticulatus]).

Broad-striped Reed Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 73 [as Hyperolius puncticulatus]).

Golden Reed Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 73 [as Hyperolius puncticulatus]).

Golden Sedge Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 177 [alternative name] [as Hyperolius puncticulatus]).

Southern Broad-striped Sedge Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 177 [alternative name] [as Hyperolius puncticulatus]).

Spotted Reed Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 175; Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 177 [as Hyperolius puncticulatus]).

Mainland Reed Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 198).

Distribution

Southern Malawi through northern Mozambique, eastern Tanzania, to Kitobo forest of southeastern Kenya; possibly extending into northeastern Zambia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania

Likely/Controversially Present: Zambia

Comment

Most of the literature prior to 2007 refers to this species as Hyperolius puncticulatus, which Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 334–338, suggested is actually a synonym of Hyperolius parkeri, and all mainland records refer to Hyperolius substriatus. Records of "Hyperolius puncticulatus" south of Malawi are referable to Hyperolius argus according to J. C. Poynton In Laurent, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 216. See account (as Hyperolius puncticulatus) by Poynton and Broadley, 1987, Ann. Natal Mus., 28: 200–202, in which they discuss taxonomic confusion and the possibility that this is a conspecific with Hyperolius argus. See account (as Hyperolius puncticulatus) by Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 175–176, and Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 177-178. Köhler, Scheelke, Schick, Veith, and Lötters, 2005, Afr. Zool., 40: 137–138, provided comments on calls. Broadley, 2007, Afr. J. Herpetol., 56: 175–177, commented on this species and noted that it does not occur in Zimbabwe. Portik, Mulungu, Sequeira, and McEntee, 2013, Herpetol. Rev., 44: 395–396, provided records for Niassa and Zambézia provinces, Mozambique. Conradie, Bittencourt-Silva, Engelbrecht, Loader, Menegon, Nanvonamuquitxo, Scott, and Tolley, 2016, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 92: 163–180, reported populations from Mount Mabu and Mount Namuli, Zambezia Province) Mozambique. Bittencourt-Silva, Lawson, Tolley, Portik, Barratt, Nagel, and Loader, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 114: 261–270, discussed analytical uncertainty in species delimitation and niche modeling among the various populations. Spawls, Wasonga, and Drewes, 2019, Amph. Kenya: 24, provided a range map for Kenya, photograph, and brief characterization. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 198–199, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Tillack, de Ruiter, and Rödel, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 97: 407–450, briefly discussed the collection history of the types of Hyperolius substriatus and Hyperolius scriptus. Bittencourt-Silva, Kamouyiaros, Hartigan, and Okamura, 2024, J. Vert. Biol., Prague, 73(24009): 1–8, discussed a method for extracting mtDNA from museum specimens.

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