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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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Boulenophrys omeimontis (Liu, 1950)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Megophryinae > Genus: Boulenophrys > Species: Boulenophrys omeimontis

Megophrys omeimontis Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 191. Holoype: FMNH 49406, by original designation. Type locality: "Mount Omei [= Emei], Szechwan [=Sichuan], altitude 3,600 feet", China.

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

Megophrys omeimontis omeimontis — Fei and Ye in Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (2): 50.

Panophrys omeimontis — Rao and Yang, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 98; Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 13.

Megophrys (Xenophrys) omeimontis — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14.

Xenophrys omeimontis — Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 23, by implication; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 17; 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.

Xenophrys (Xenophrys) omeimontis — Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 706.

Xenophrys (Panophrys) omeimontis — Chen, Zhou, Poyarkov, Stuart, Brown, Lathrop, Wang, Yuan, Jiang, Hou, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Duong, Papenfuss, Murphy, Zhang, and Che, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 109: 41.

Megophrys (Panophrys) omeimontis — Mahony, Foley, Biju, and Teeling, 2017, Mol. Biol. Evol., 34: 755.

Boulenophrys omeimontis — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 414; Qi, Lyu, Wang, Mo, Zeng, Zeng, Dai, Li, Grismer, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 5072: 404.

Common Names

Mount Omei Spadefoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86).

Omei Horned Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 112; Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 625).

Distribution

Hilly areas on the southern edge of the Sichuan Basin, including southeastern and northern Sichuan, southwestern Chongqing, northwestern Guizhou, and northeastern Yunnan, at elevations of 400–1600 m.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Reviewed by Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 63-65, and Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (2): 49-52, both in the sense of including Megophrys jingdongensis. See also Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 119-120, for distribution of subspecies and nomenclatural note. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 172, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 112-113. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 144-145, provided a brief account and illustration. In the Megophrys omeimontis group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 79. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 625 (in the sense of including Megophrys jingdongensis). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 395-400 , provided accounts and spot maps. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 202-203, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 230–231, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 706–709, provided an account, photographs, and dot map, as Xenophrys omeimontis. Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 420, provided an account and included the species in their Boulenophrys omeimontis group. Li, Xiao, Zhao, Wu, Jin, Yan, and Liao, 2025, Biology, 14(614): 1–12, reported the species from, and its habitat preference in, Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve, in the Minshan Mountain range, northern Sichuan, China.

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