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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 yaoshanensis Qi, Mo, Lyu, Wang, and Wang, 2021

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

Boulenophrys yaoshanensis Qi, Mo, Lyu, Wang, and Wang in Qi, Lyu, Wang, Mo, Zeng, Zeng, Dai, Li, Grismer, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 5072: 412. Holotype: SYS a002189, by original designation. Type locality: "Dayaoshan Nature Reserve (26.5517°N, 114.1548°E; ca 845 m a.s.l.), Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China". Corrected to "24.1602° N, 110.2304° E; ca 1200 m a.s.l." in erratum by Qi, Lyu, Wang, Mo, Zeng, Zeng, Dai, Li, Grismer, and Wang, 2022, Zootaxa, 5115: 600. Zoobank publication registration: B23A6B99-6D47-469F-8A4F-8AD41D77151A

Common Names

Mt. Dayao Horned Toad (original publication)

Distribution

Known only from Jinxiu and Mengshan counties, and Guiping City, Guangxi, China, all in the Dayao Mountains in evergreen secondary forest, inhabiting flowing montane streams and the nearby forest floor and leaf litter at elevations between 1200–1350 m.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Previously confused with Megophrys minor and Megophrys brachykolos according to the original publication, where the older literature was discussed as well as comparative morphology and molecular markers were detailed. Qi, Lyu, Wang, Mo, Zeng, Zeng, Dai, Li, Grismer, and Wang, 2022, Zootaxa, 5115: 600, published an erratum correcting the elevational range to 1200–1350 m. A detailed account provided by Lyu, Qi, Wang, Zhang, Zhao, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Mo, and Wang, 2023, Zool. Res., Kunming, 44: 444, who assigned it to the Boulenophrys boettgeri group.

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