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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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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"
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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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Blommersia Dubois, 1992

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Mantellidae > Subfamily: Mantellinae > Genus: Blommersia

14 species

Blommersia Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 311. Type species: Gephyromantis blommersae Guibé, 1975, by original designation. Proposed as a subgenus of Mantidactylus.

Blommersia — Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 242. Rank of genus.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Madagascar.

Comment

Suggested by Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., 6: 236-253, and Kurabayashi, Sumida, Yonekawa, Glaw, Vences, and Hasegawa, 2008, Mol. Biol. Evol., 25: 874-891, to be the sister taxon of Guibemantis. This was confirmed by Wollenberg, Vieites, Glaw, and Vences, 2011, BMC Evol. Biol., 11 (217) : 1-15. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 184-187, provided accounts. Vences, Köhler, Pabijan, and Glaw, 2010, Afr. J. Herpetol., 59:: 137, provided a molecular tree of relationships. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, provided a molecular tree based on Genbank sequences that largely confirmed earlier studies.

Contained taxa (14 sp.):

Blommersia angolafa Andreone, Rosa, Noël, Crottini, Vences, and Raxworthy, 2010

Blommersia bara Vences, Multzsch, Köhler, Crottini, Andreone, Rakotoarison, Scherz, and Glaw, 2023

Blommersia blommersae (Guibé, 1975)

Blommersia dejongi Vences, Köhler, Pabijan, and Glaw, 2010

Blommersia domerguei (Guibé, 1973)

Blommersia dupreezi Vences, Armerding, Köhler, and Glaw, 2023

Blommersia galani Vences, Köhler, Pabijan, and Glaw, 2010

Blommersia grandisonae (Guibé, 1973)

Blommersia kely (Glaw and Vences, 1994)

Blommersia nataliae Vieites, Nieto-Roman, Fernández, and Santos-Santos, 2020

Blommersia sarotra (Glaw and Vences, 2002)

Blommersia transmarina Glaw, Hawlitschek, Glaw, and Vences, 2019

Blommersia variabilis Pabijan, Gehring, Köhler, Glaw, and Vences, 2011

Blommersia wittei (Guibé, 1973)

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