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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 boringii (Liu, 1945)

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

Vibrissaphora boringii Liu, 1945, J. West China Border Res. Soc., Ser. B, 15: 28. Holotype: CIB 237, by original designation. Type locality: "Ta-nge-sze [= Taosze] ( . . .), Mont-Omei, 3590 feet altitude", Sichuan, China.

Leptobrachium (Leptobrachium) boringii — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 476.

Leptobrachium (Vibrissaphora) boringii — Duellman and Trueb, 1986, Biol. Amph.: 56. Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 26; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 12; Matsui, Hamidy, Murphy, Khonsue, Yambun Imbun, Shimada, Ahmad, Belabut, and Jiang, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 56: 269.

Vibrissaphora boringii — Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 126.

Vibrissaphora boringiae — Michels and Bauer, 2004, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 52: 86. Unjustified emendation according to Dubois, 2007, Zootaxa, 1550: 67.

Leptobrachium boringiae — Rao and Wilkinson, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 69.

Common Names

Taosze Spiny Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 87).

Emei Moustache Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 94).

Distribution

Youang in Chongqing, Tianlin in Guangxi, Jiangkou and Yinjiang in Guangxi, Sangzhi in Hunan, Dujiangyuan, Junlian, and Mount Emei in Sichuan, and Daguan in Yunnan, China, 700–1700 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Discussed (as Vibrissaphora boringi) by Liu, Hu, and Zhao, 1980, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, 3 (1): 1–9, Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 100–103, and Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 176–180. See account by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 151. See Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 131, for nomenclatural note. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 94–95, provided a brief account, map, and figure. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 136, provided a brief account and illustration. In the Vibrissaphora boringii group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 70. Brandon-Jones, Duckworth, Jenkins, Rylands, and Sarmiento, 2007, Zootaxa, 1541: 41–48, discussed the nomenclatural principles that prevent boringii from being emendable to boringiae. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 22–24, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 443. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 273–278, provided an account, a spot map, and an illustration. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 162–163, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 190–191, provided an account (as Vibrissaphora boringii), photographs, and a range map for China. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 472–474, provided an account (as Vibrissaphora boringii), photograph, and dot map. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 128–133, provided an account (as Vibrissaphora boringii) for Hunan, China. Zhang, 2017, Amph. Rept. Fanjing Mts.: 65–68, provided taxonomic and natural history information for the Fanjing Mountains population in northeastern Guizhou, China. Li, Li, Chen, Liu, and Shen, 2019, MtDNA, Part B, 4: 265–266, reported on the mitochondrial genome.

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