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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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Boophis andrangoloaka (Ahl, 1928)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Mantellidae > Subfamily: Boophinae > Genus: Boophis > Species: Boophis andrangoloaka

Rhacophorus andrangoloaka Ahl, 1928, Zool. Anz., 75: 311. Syntypes: ZMB (2 specimens) unnumbered in original publication of which ZMB 30518 and 50102 are presumed to be these syntypes (see following); ZMB 30518, presumably in error, regarded as holotype by Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 74; ZMB 30510 formally designated lectotype by Glaw and Vences, 1997 "1996", Salamandra, 32: 237. Type locality: "Zentralmadagasckar (Angrangoloaka)".

Rhacophorus brevirostris Ahl, 1928, Zool. Anz., 75: 313. Holotype: ZMB unnumbered according to the original publication; ZMB 30518 according to Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 74. Type locality: "N.W. Madagascar"; considered to be in error by Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010, Zootaxa, 2383: 16. Synonymy with Boophis rhodoscelis by Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 74. Synonymy with Boophis andrangoloaka by Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010, Zootaxa, 2383: 16.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) brevirostris — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 192.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) andrangoloaka — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 185.

Boophis andrangoloaka — Guibé, 1947, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 19: 439.

Boophis andrangoloaka — Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010, Zootaxa, 2383: 12.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from Ankafobe, Angrangoloaka, and Ambohitantely Special Reserves, northern Madagascar.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Madagascar

Endemic: Madagascar

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Boophis rhodoscelis by Glaw, Köhler, De la Riva, Vieites, and Vences, 2010, Zootaxa, 2383: 12, where it had been placed by Guibé, 1947, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 19: 439; and Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 74. See comments by Mullin, Rakotomanga, Razafiarimanana, Barata, Dawson, Hailer, and Orozco-terWengel, 2021, Herpetol. Notes, 14: 521–531, provided the record from Ankafobe Reserve, Madagascar.

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