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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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Leptobrachium bompu Sondhi and Ohler, 2011

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Leptobrachiinae > Genus: Leptobrachium > Species: Leptobrachium bompu

Leptobrachium bompu Sondhi and Ohler, 2011, Zootaxa, 2912: 30. Holotype: SFI No. KA0001/200905, by original designation. Type locality: "Bompu (27° 06′61″ N, 92° 40′64″ E), altitude of 1940 m", Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Common Names

Bompu Litter Toad (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 5).

波普拟髭蟾 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 4).

Distribution

Known from the type locality (Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, West Kameng District), Talle Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lower Subansiri District, and Mehao Lake, Lower Dibang River, all localities in Arunachal Pradesh, India, 1950 m elevation); a record from Sarpang District in Bhutan required genetic confirmation. See comment.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Likely/Controversially Present: Bhutan

Comment

Saikia, Sinha, and Kharkongor, 2018, J. Threatened Taxa, 9: 10692–10696, provided a second locality in Arunachal Pradesh, India. Tenzin and Wangyal, 2019, J. Threatened Taxa, 11: 13385–13389, provided a record for the Sarpang District in Bhutan (which Sarmah, Tajo, Upadhyaya K., Garg, and Biju, 2025, Zootaxa, 5636: 237–264, noted required genetic confirmation) adult and larval morphology, molecular markers, and acoustics, and suggested that the Chinese component of the range may represent an unnamed species and that the Bhutan record requires genetic confirmation.. See account, map and photograph for Tibet by Che, Jiang, Yan, and Zhang, 2020, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 103–106. See comment under Leptobrachium mechuka. Roy, Ahmed, Menda, and Begum, 2026, Reptiles & Amphibians, 33(e22962): 1–2, provided a new record for Arunachal Pradesh, India, and described aspects of life history.

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