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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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Laliostoma Glaw, Vences, and Böhme, 1998

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Mantellidae > Subfamily: Laliostominae > Genus: Laliostoma

1 species

Laliostoma Glaw, Vences, and Böhme, 1998, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 36: 35. Type genus: Tomopterna labrosa Cope, 1868, by original designation. Coined as an explicit subgenus under Tomopterna.

Laliostoma — Vences, Glaw, Kosuch, Das, and Veith, 2000, Lourenço and Goodman (eds.), Diversité et Endéémisme à Madagascar: 232. First use as a genus.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

As for the single species, central and western Madagascar.

Comment

Richards and Moore, 1998, Herpetol. J., 8: 41-46, suggested on the basis of molecular evidence, that this species was nested within the Madagascan component of the Rhacophoridae. Glaw, Vences, and Böhme, 1998, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 36: 35, suggested that Tomopterna labrosa was most closely related to the African component of the genus, which might be polyphyletic. Bossuyt and Milinkovitch, 2000, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 97: 6585-6590, suggested that this species was more closely related to Madagascan rhacophorids and mantellids than other ranids. Vences and Glaw, 2001, Spixiana, München, 24: 85-92, transferred Laliostoma labrosum to the Laliostominae of the Mantellidae and posited that it was most closely related to Aglyptodactylus. See also Vences, Glaw, Kosuch, Das, and Veith, 2000, Lourenço and Goodman (eds.), Diversité et Endéémisme à Madagascar: 229-242.

Contained taxa (1 sp.):

Laliostoma labrosum (Cope, 1868)

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