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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.
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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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Leptobrachella lateralis (Anderson, 1871)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Leptobrachella > Species: Leptobrachella lateralis

Ixalus lateralis Anderson, 1871, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 40: 29. Holotype: in ZSI, according to the original description; ZSI 10967, according to Sclater, 1892, List Batr. Indian Mus.: 33; presumed lost as not located by Chanda, Das, and Dubois, 2001 "2000", Hamadryad, 25: 100-128. Neotype: IASST A.68, by designation of Humtsoe, Bordoloi, Ohler, and Dubois, 2008, Zootaxa, 1921: 28. Type locality: "unknown"; given as "unknown . . . but from the circumstances . . . from some portion of the surrounding region [of Bhamò]" (A. Ohler, personal commun., notes that this discussion was with reference to specimens not part of the collection), Myanmar, by Anderson, 1879 "1878", Anat. Zool. Res.: 845; as Birmah [= Myanmar] by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 103; given as "No loc." by Sclater, 1892, List Batr. Indian Mus.: 20; restricted in error to western Yunnan [China] by Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 180. Neotype from "Nhyatsutchu stream, Wokha district, Nagaland, India (alt. 1315 m; near 26° 06′ N, 94° 16′ E)". Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020, Zootaxa, 4878: 31, discussed the location of Bhamò.

Megophrys lateralis — Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 180. Based on specimens of Megophrys major.

Megophrys (Megophrys) lateralis — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 472. Based on specimens of Megophrys major.

Panophrys lateralis — Rao and Yang, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 98. Based on specimens of Megophrys major.

Megophrys (Xenophrys) lateralis — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14. Based on specimens of Megophrys major.

Xenophrys lateralis — Khonsue and Thirakhupt, 2001, Nat. Hist. J. Chulalongkorn Univ., 1: 75. Based on specimens of Megophrys major.

Leptolalax (Lalax) lateralis — Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 14.

Leptolalax (Lalos) lateralis — Dubois, Grosjean, Ohler, Adler, and Zhao, 2010, Zootaxa, 2493: 67.

Leptobrachella lateralis — Chen, Poyarkov, Suwannapoom, Lathrop, Wu, Zhou, Yuan, Jin, Chen, Liu, Nguyen, Nguyen, Duong, Eto, Nishikawa, Matsui, Orlov, Stuart, Brown, Rowley, Murphy, Wang, and Che, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 124: 162, by implication.

English Names

Nagaland Asian Toad (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 40).

Anderson's Toadfrog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 26).

Distribution

Known with any confidence only from the neotype locality in northeastern India (Nagaland) and the surrounding region of Bhamò, Myanmar, possibly into Yunnan, China.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India, Myanmar

Likely/Controversially Present: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 14, discussed briefly the nomenclatural confusion of Ixalus lateralis with Megophrys major and the likelihood that Leptolalax lateralis and Leptolalax pelodytoides are conspecific. Humtsoe, Bordoloi, Ohler, and Dubois, 2008, Zootaxa, 1921: 24-34, discussed the confusing history of the name Ixalus lateralis and designated a neotype.. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted one larval descriptions with illustration in the literature. Ohler, Wollenberg, Grosjean, Hendrix, Vences, Ziegler, and Dubois, 2011, Zootaxa, 3147: 1-83, characterized the species comparatively. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 26, briefly discussed habitat and range in Myanmar.

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