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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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Hylambates Duméril, 1853

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hyperoliidae > Subfamily: Kassininae > Genus: Hylambates

5 species

Hylambates Duméril, 1853, Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, Ser. 3, 19: 162. Type species: Hylambates maculatus Duméril, 1853, by monotypy. See comment.

Phlyctimantis Laurent and Combaz, 1950, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 43: 274. Type species: Hylambates leonardi Boulenger, 1906 "1905", by original designation. Synonymy by Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 223. (Unfortunately I could not find the misrepresentation of what these authors claimed was in ASW, but they are correct on this point–DRF).

Phlyctimantis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 38. Treatment as a subgenus of Kassina.

English Names

African Striped Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 69).

Wot-wots (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 212).

Distribution

Southern Tanzania; Liberia east to Ivory Coast and in eastern Nigeria, western Cameroon, and Bioko (Equatorial Guinea), and rainforest in Dem. Rep. Congo; absent in apparently suitable habitats in Togo, Benin, and western Nigeria.

Comment

Schiøtz, 1967, Spolia Zool. Mus. Haun., 25: 96, doubted the distinctiveness of this genus from Kassina, but Drewes, 1984, Occas. Pap. California Acad. Sci., 139: 1–70, treated it as valid and the sister-taxon of Kassina + Kassinula + Paracassina (as Tornierella). Phlyctimantis was regarded as a subgenus of Kassina by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 38. Channing, 1989, S. Afr. J. Zool., 24: 116–131, discussed the phylogenetic position of this taxon on the basis of a parsimony analysis (Phlyctimantis (Kassina (Paracassina + Semnodactylus))); see Hyperoliidae account for more information on phylogenetics. See Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 316–323, for accounts of the species. Laurent, 1976, Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Tervuren, Ser. Octavo, Sci. Zool., 213: 18–30, provided accounts for the species in Congo. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 212–214, provided a key and accounts for the East African species. Rödel, Gil, Agyei, Leaché, Diaz, Fujita, and Ernst, 2005, Salamandra, 41: 107–127. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 245–248, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 132–135, provided brief accounts, photographs, and range maps for the species. Hylambates had been placed in the synonymy of Kassina by Laurent and Combaz, 1950, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 43: 271, but recognized as distinct by Laurent and Combaz, 1950, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 43: 274. Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 223, noted that Hylambates has priority over Phlyctimantis.

Contained taxa (5 sp.):

Hylambates boulengeri (Perret, 1986)

Hylambates keithae (Schiøtz, 1975)

Hylambates leonardi Boulenger, 1906

Hylambates maculatus Duméril, 1853

Hylambates verrucosus Boulenger, 1912

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