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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 leishanense (Liu and Hu, 1973)

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

Vibrissaphora leishanensis Liu and Hu In Hu, Zhao, and Liu, 1973, Acta Zool. Sinica, 19: 165. Holotype: CIB 639000, by original designation. Type locality: "Ge-tou of Fang-xiang, Leishan hsien, Kweichow [= Guizhou], altitude 1,100 m", China.

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

Leptobrachium (Vibrissaphora) leishanensis — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 19; 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.

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

Common Names

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

Leishan Moustache Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 96).

Distribution

Known from the vicinity of the type locality (Leishan, southeastern-central Guizhou, China), 1100–1800 m elevation; also reported from northwestern Hunan, China (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Reviewed (as Vibrissaphora leishanensis) by Liu, Hu, and Zhao, 1980, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, 3 (1): 1-9. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China 153, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 96. In the Vibrissaphora liui group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 70. Zheng, Li, and Fu, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 706, noted ambiguities in the molecular evidence for this species. See illustration, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Vibrissaphora leishanensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 444. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 281-286, provided an account, a spot map, and an illustration. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 165, provided a brief account including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 192, provided an account (as Vibrissaphora leishanensis), photographs, and a range map for China. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 133–136, provided an account for Hunan, China (as Vibrissaphora leishanensis), although this identification is suspect. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 477–479, provided an account (as Vibrissaphora leishanense), photograph, and dot map. Fu, Ai, Cai, Qiu, Yao, and Wu, 2021, Animals, 11 (3560): 1–13, reported on genetic diversity and population dynamics.

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