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* = "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
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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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Kassina maculosa (Sternfeld, 1917)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hyperoliidae > Subfamily: Kassininae > Genus: Kassina > Species: Kassina maculosa

Megalixalus maculosus Sternfeld, 1917, in Mecklenburg (ed.), Ergebnisse der Zweit. Deutschen Zentral-Afr.-Exped. 1910–1911, Zool.: 501. Syntype(s): SMF (2 examples), by original designation; SMF 7249 designated lectotype by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 48. Type locality: "Duma (Ubangi)", Dem. Rep. Congo.

Kassina maculosa — Laurent, 1952, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 46: 274.

Kassina maculosa maculosa — Perret, 1958, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 20: 1437–1447; Inger, 1968, Explor. Parc Natl. Garamba, Miss. H. de Saeger, 52: 127; Laurent, 1976, Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Tervuren, Ser. Octavo, Sci. Zool., 213: 33.

Kassina (Kassina) maculosa — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 37.

Common Names

Central African Running Frog (Spawls, Mazuch, and Mohammad, 2023, Handb. Amph. Rept. NE Afr.: 58).

Central Running Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 138).

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

Distribution

Western and central Cameroon to southeastern Gabon, southwestern Central African Republic, northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo, to extreme southern South Sudan; and Gabon; isolated record in Cpanda, Malanje Province, Angola (see comment); expected in southeastern Nigeria and central and northern Rep. Congo.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Gabon, South Sudan

Likely/Controversially Present: Congo, Republic of the, Nigeria

Comment

See account by Inger, 1968, Explor. Parc Natl. Garamba, Miss. H. de Saeger, 52: 127. See comment under Kassina mertensi. Amiet, 2007, Rev. Suisse Zool., 114: 102–113, discussed the difficulty of distinguishing this species from Kassina decorata and provided discussion of how identification can be arrived at. The range is highly provisional. See account for Cameroon by Amiet, 2012, Rainettes Cameroun: 376–386. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 236–237, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 241–243, provided an account and map. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 116, provided a map and brief account for Angola. Baptista, Conradie, Vaz Pinto, and Branch, 2019, In Huntley, Russo, Lages, and Ferrand (eds.), Biodiversity in Angola: 253, suggested that the Angola record requires confirmation. Zimkus and Larson, 2013, Salamandra, 49: 159, provided a record from Batéké Plateau National Park, Gabon. Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 29, summarized the literature for Gabon. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 138–139, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Spawls, Mazuch, and Mohammad, 2023, Handb. Amph. Rept. NE Afr.: 58, provided an account addressing identification, natural history, conservation status, and range in South Sudan, including a polygon map.

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