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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 rakhinense Wogan, 2012

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

Leptobrachium rakhinensis Wogan, 2012, Zootaxa, 3415: 27. Holotype: CAS 222296, by original designation. Type locality: "Myanmar, Rakhine State, Gwa Township, Rakhine Yoma Elephant Sanctuary (N 17° 42′ 14.0″ E 94° 38′ 54.3″)".

Leptobrachium rakhinense — Pawangkhanant, Poyarkov, Duong, Naiduangchan, and Suwannapoom, 2018, PeerJ, 6 (e3584): 2, correction in gender of the species name.

Common Names

Rakhine Bicolor-eyed Toadfrog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 27).

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

Distribution

Rakhine Hills (Rakhine and Bago states) in western Myanmar; controversially reported from northeastern India (Meghalaya and Mizoram) and Bangladesh, but see comment.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Myanmar

Comment

Confused with Leptobrachium hasseltii prior to its naming according to the original publication. See comment under Leptobrachium hasseltii. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 7–8, provided an account for the Indian population, as Leptobrachium hasseltii. Lalremsanga, Sailo, and Hooroo, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 98, provided the record (as Leptobrachium smithi) for Mizoram, India. Ahmed, Das, and Dutta, 2009, Amph. Rept. NE India: 28, provided a brief account (as Leptobrachium smithi) for northeastern India.Mahony, Hasan, Kabir, Ahmed, and Hossain, 2009, Hamadryad, 34: 80–94, provided a record (as Leptobrachium smithi) for Sylhet Division, Bangladesh. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 51–52, provided a brief characterization (as Leptobrachium smithi) and photographs. Mathew and Sen, 2010 "2009", Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 109: 95–97, provided (as Leptobrachium smithi) measurements from Meghalaya, northeastern India. Wogan, 2012, Zootaxa, 3415: 32–33, discussed the identifications of specimens from India and Bangladesh and reassigned several records of Leptobrachium smithi to this species. Dutta, Das, Dutta, Gogoi, and Sengupta, 2013, Tropical Nat. Hist., Thailand, 13: 87–95, suggested on the basis of morphological comparisons that the putative records from northeastern India are referable to Leptobrachium smithi. Subsequently, Al-Razi, Maria, and Poyarkov, 2021, J. Nat. Hist., London, 55: 85–114, named Leptobrachium sylheticum from Sylhet Divison of Bangladesh and adjacent Tripura, northeastern India, suggesting that this may resolve the problem. These authors also included Leptobrachium rakinense as part of the Leptobrachium smithii complex. Pawangkhanant, Poyarkov, Duong, Naiduangchan, and Suwannapoom, 2018, PeerJ, 6 (e3584): 1–27, provided a dot map for Myanmar, genetically-confirmed localities, and comparative morphological information. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 27, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar.

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