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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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Brachytarsophrys feae (Boulenger, 1887)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Megophryinae > Genus: Brachytarsophrys > Species: Brachytarsophrys feae

Megalophrys feae Boulenger, 1887, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2, 4: 512. Holotype: MSNG 29763 according to Capocaccia, 1957, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 3, 69: 212. Type locality: "East of Bhamò [the city], Khakhyen Hills, Burma [= Myanmar]".

Leptobrachium feae — Boulenger, 1889, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2, 27: 750.

Megophrys feae — Gee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 20.

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

Brachytarsophrys feae — Rao and Yang, 1997, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 7: 98.

Megophrys (Brachytarsophrys) feae — Mahony, Foley, Biju, and Teeling, 2017, Mol. Biol. Evol., 34: 754.

Common Names

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

Kakhien Hill Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 11).

Fea's Short-legged Toad (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 104).

Green Spine-eyed Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 83).

Fea's Horn Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 83).

Fea's Horned Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 82).

Fea's Horned Toadfrog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 28).

Distribution

Northern Myanmar (Kachin and Kayah) to northwestern Thailand (Chiang Mai and Tak provinces); northern montane Vietnam and into southwestern and southeastern Yunnan and southwestern Guangxi provinces, China; presumably extends into Laos.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

Likely/Controversially Present: Laos

Comment

See Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 296–298, and Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 218–220, for accounts. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 163, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 104–105. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 81–104, provided a statement of the species' range. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 41–42. Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 83, provided a brief characterization (as Megophrys feae) and a photograph. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 82–83, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Wogan, Lwin, Win, and Thin, 2004, Proc. California Acad. Sci., 55: 251–254, reported on the advertisement call. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 11, provided specific records for Vietnam and (p. 147) a photograph. Bain, Nguyen, and Doan, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 107, provided records from Lao Cai Province, Vietnam, and briefly discussed the range. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 26–27, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. Mo and Zou, 2005, Herpetol. Sinica, 10: 89–92, provided a record for Guangxi. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 341–346, provided an account and spot map for China. Chan-ard, Nabhitabhata, and Suwannapakdi, 2007, Thailand Nat. Hist. Mus. J., 2: 27–30, provided a definite record for northern Thailand. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 180, provided a brief account including photographs. Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Amph. E. Region Thailand: 124, detailed the range in Thailand. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 208, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 727–729, provided an account, photograph, and dot map for China. Pham, Pham, Doan, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2019, Biodiversity Data J., 7 (e39140): 1–18, reported the species from Son La Province, northwestern Vietnam. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 146–147, provided a brief account (photograph, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). In the Brachytarsophrys feae group of Li, Zhang, Lyu, Wang, Li, Liu, Chen, Rao, Jin, Zhang, and Wang, 2020, Zool. Res., Kunming: 105–122. Makchai, Chuaynkern, Safoowong, Chuachat, and Cota, 2020, Amph. N. Thailand: 99, provided a brief account, photographs, and a range map for Thailand. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 28, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar. Chuaynkern, Makchai, and Chuaynkern, 2022, Agr. Nat. Res., Thailand, 56: 225–232, reported on larval morphology from a population in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

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