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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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Atympanophrys shapingensis (Liu, 1950)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Megophryinae > Genus: Atympanophrys > Species: Atympanophrys shapingensis

Megophrys shapingensis Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 194. Holotype: FMNH 49405, by original designation. Type locality: "Shaping, Opienhsien [=Ebian County], Szechwan [=Sichuan]", China.

Megophrys (Megophrys) shapingensis — Dubois, 1980, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 49: 472.

Atympanophrys shapingensis — Tian and Hu, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (2): 43; Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 115.

Megophrys (Atympanophrys) shapingensis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 23; Mahony, Foley, Biju, and Teeling, 2017, Mol. Biol. Evol., 34: 754.

Megophrys shapingensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 205.

Xenophrys shapingensis — Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 18.

Atympanophrys shapingensis — Chen, Zhou, Poyarkov, Stuart, Brown, Lathrop, Wang, Yuan, Jiang, Hou, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Duong, Papenfuss, Murphy, Zhang, and Che, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 106: 41.

Common Names

Shaping Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 85).

Shaping Horned Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 106).

Distribution

Known from multiple localities on the eastern edge of the Hengduan Mountains in central Sichuan, China, at elevations of 2000–3200 m.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

See accounts by Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 194-196; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 70;Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 163; and by Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 106-107. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 142-143, provided a brief account and illustration. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 46-47. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 356-363, provided an account, illustration of the holotype, and spot map for China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 206-207, provided a brief account including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 230–231, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. Xiang, Wang, Jiang, Li, and Xie, 2013, Mitochondrial DNA, 24: 43–45, reported on the complete mtDNA genome. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 629–631, provided an account, photograph, and dot map, as Atympanophrys shapingensis. Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 398, provided a detailed account.

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