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* = "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
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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 shuichengensis (Tian and Sun, 1995)

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

Megophrys shuichengensis Tian and Sun, 1995, J. Liupanshui Teachers College, 52(3): XXX. Holotype: LTHC 944001, by original designation. Type locality: at an elevation of 1850 metres in Shuicheng County, Guizhou Province, China. Acting as First Revisor this spelling was chosen as the correct original spelling by Ohler, Frétey, and Dubois, 2015, Zootaxa, 3963: 597.

Megophrys shuichengensis Tian, Gu, and Sun, 2000, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 25: 463, 465. Holotype: LTHC 944001, by original designation. Type locality: "Fenghuang village, Shuicheng County (26° 34′ N, 104° 51′ E), Guizhou Province; altitude 1850 m", China. Objective synonym of Megophrys shuichengensis Tian and Sun, 1995, according to Ohler, Frétey, and Dubois, 2015, Zootaxa, 3963: 596.

Xenophrys shuichengensis — 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 (Tianophrys) shuichengensis — Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 681.

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

Panophrys shuichengensis — Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 15.

Boulenophrys shuichengensis — Qi, Lyu, Wang, Mo, Zeng, Zeng, Dai, Li, Grismer, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 5072: 404.

English Names

Shuicheng Horned Toad (Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 681).

Distribution

Known only from two localities (Shuicheng and Suiyang) in western and north-central Guizhou Province, China, 1800 to 1870 me elevation.

Comment

Most similar to Atympanophrys gigantica, but lacking the apomorphies of that taxon. In the Megophrys omeimontis group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 79. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 403-408, provided an account, illustration of the holotype, and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 208-209, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 237, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. See Ohler, Frétey, and Dubois, 2015, Zootaxa, 3963: 596, for discussion of original publication. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 681–680, provided an account, photogrphs, and dot map, as Xenophrys shuichengensis.

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