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* = "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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Semnodactylus wealii (Boulenger, 1882)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hyperoliidae > Subfamily: Kassininae > Genus: Semnodactylus > Species: Semnodactylus wealii

Cassina wealii Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 131. Syntypes: BMNH ("several spec."), by original designation including animal figured on pl. 11, fig. 7 of the original publication; BMNH 1879.6.5.8–15 (now reregistered as 1947.2.9.91–98) are syntypes according to museum records. Type locality: "Vleis [= grassy marshes], Kaffraria", Rep. South Africa.

Kassina wealii wealii — Hewitt, 1927, Rec. Albany Mus., 3: 408.

Cassina wealii quinquevittata Hewitt, 1927, Rec. Albany Mus., 3: 409. Type(s): Not designated, although stated to be in SAM; now in PEM according to Lambiris, 1988, Lammergeyer, 39: 128, and PEM A6289 according to Conradie, Branch, and Watson, 2015, Zootaxa, 3936: 63, who discussed the holotype. Type locality: "Cape Peninsula", Western Cape Province, Rep. South Africa; corrected to "Capetown", Western Cape Province, Rep. South Africa by Hewitt, 1927, Rec. Albany Mus., 3: 409, in the subsequent formal description. Status as subspecies rejected by Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 178-179.

Semnodactylus thabanchuensis Hoffman, 1939, Soöl. Navors. Nas. Mus. Bloemfontein, 1: 90. Holotype: NMB 1908, by original designation. Type locality: "Orange Free State . . . . Thaba 'Nchu Mountain", Free State, Rep. South Africa. Synonymy by Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 177-179.

Kassina weali fitzsimonsi Hoffman, 1942, Soöl. Navors. Nas. Mus. Bloemfontein, 1: 158. Holotype: TMP 6850, by original designation. Type locality: "Wakkerstroom, Transvaal", Mpumalanga Province, Rep. South Africa.

Kassina thabanchuensis — Hoffman, 1942, Soöl. Navors. Nas. Mus. Bloemfontein, 1: 151.

Hylambates wealei — Van Dijk, 1966, Ann. Natal Mus., 18: 257.

Hylambates (Kassina) wealei — Van Dijk, 1971, Zool. Afr., 6: 98. In context, not relegating Kassina to a subgeneric position, but intending to show alternative arrangements of other authors.

Notokassina wealei — Drewes, 1985, S. Afr. J. Sci., 81: 190.

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

Semnodactylus wealii — Lambiris, 1988, Lammergeyer, 39: 127-129.

Common Names

Weale's Frog (Hewitt, 1937, Guide Vert. Fauna E. Cape Province, Rept. Amph. Fishes: 106; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 230).

Rattling Kassina (Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 7; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 230).

Long-toed Running Frog (Wager, 1965, Frogs S. Afr.: 191; Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 7; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 230).

Weal's Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 74; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 70).

Weale's Kassin's Frog (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 16).

Weale's Kassina (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 16).

Weale's Running Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 193-194; Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 144).

Rattling Frog (Du Preez, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 166; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 278).

Distribution

Southern and eastern Rep. South Africa; Eswatini and Lesotho.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa

Comment

See accounts by. Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 324, Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 193-194, Du Preez, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 166-167, Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 471-473, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 278-280. Bates and Haacke, 2003, Navors. Nas. Mus. Bloemfontein, 19: 141, discussed the species in Lesotho. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 248–249, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 144–145, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.

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