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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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Leptobrachella ventripunctata (Fei, Ye, and Li, 1990)

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

Leptolalax ventripunctatus Fei, Ye, and Li In Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 95, 213, 274. Holotype: CIB 890063, by original designation. Type locality: Zhushihe, Mengla County, Yunnan Province, altitude 850 m, China; given as " Mengla (21° 29′ N, 101° 15′ E; alt. 850 m), Yunnan Province, China" by Ohler, Wollenberg, Grosjean, Hendrix, Vences, Ziegler, and Dubois, 2011, Zootaxa, 3147: 50. .

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

Paramegophrys (Paramegophrys) ventripunctatus — Jiang, Ye, and Fei, 2008, J. Anhui Normal Univ., Nat. Sci., 31: 263. Incorrect gender of species name.

Paramegophrys ventripunctatus — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 323. Incorrect gender of species name.

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

Leptobrachella ventripunctata — 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.

Common Names

Yunnan Asian Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86).

Speckle-bellied Metacarpal-tubercled Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 102).

Yunnan Litter Toad (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 31).

Distribution

Known from the type locality in extreme southern Yunnan (Zhuzhihe, Mengla County) and Guizhou Plateau (Anlong, Ceheng, Huishui, and Ziyun counties); Phongsaly and Houapan provinces, Laos; and Son La, Vinh Phuc, Than Hoa, Tuyen Quang, Cao Bang, and Dien Bien Provinces, northern Vietnam; reported from extreme northern Thailand (Chiang Rai Province); expected in extreme eastern Myanmar.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam

Likely/Controversially Present: Myanmar

Comment

Closely related to Leptolalax oshanensis according to the original publication. See also Fei, Ye, and Li, 1992, Acta Biol. Plateau Sinica, 11: 45-54, for redescription. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 102-103, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 323-327, provided an account and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 176, provided a brief account (as Paramegophrys ventripunctatus) including photographs. Ohler, Wollenberg, Grosjean, Hendrix, Vences, Ziegler, and Dubois, 2011, Zootaxa, 3147: 1-83, characterized the species comparatively. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 204, provided an account (as Paramegophrys ventripunctatus), photographs, and a range map for China. Teynié, Nguyen, Lorvelec, Piquet, Lottier, and David, 2014, Bull. Soc. Herpetol. France, 151: 27–28, provided two records from Houaphan Province, Laos, and discussed the range. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 609–611, provided an account (as Paramegophrys), photograph, and spot map for China. Matsui, Eto, Nishikawa, Hamidy, Belabut, Ahmad, Panha, Khonsue, and Grismer, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 36: 13, provided a genetically confirmed record from Houapan Province, Laos. Luong, Nguyen, Le, Nguyen, and Nguyen, 2019, Herpetol. Notes, 12: 375–387, provided records from Dien Bien Province, Vietnam, and discussed the range and natural history. 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: 169, provided the records for Caiyanghe, Yunnan, China, as well as localities in Tuyen Quang, Thanh Hoa, Cao Bank Lao Ci, and Phu Tho provinces, Vietnam. Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 31, reported the species in extreme northern Thailand, but without precise locality at this point pending a ms in preparation by Suwannapoom et al. Wu, Pawangkhanant, Chen, Gao, Suwannapoom, and Che, 2021, Biodiversity Data J., 9 (e74097): 1–15, reported the species, genetically confirmed, from Doi Tung, Chiang Rai Province, northern Thailand, 650 m elevation. Feng, Shen, Mu, Liu, Li, Diao, and Su, 2024, Asian Herpetol. Res., 15: 140–151, reported on geographic variation in the advertisement call on the Guizhou Plateau, China.

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