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* = "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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Brachytarsophrys popei Zhao, Yang, Chen, Chen, and Wang, 2014

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

Brachytarsophrys popei Zhao, Yang, Chen, Chen, and Wang, 2014, Asian Herpetol. Res., 5: 154. Holotype: SYS a001867, by original designation. Type locality: "Taoyuandong Nature Reserve (26°30′8.79″ N, 114°03′38.27″ E; 1045 m a.s.l.), Yanling County, Hunan Province, China".

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

Brachytarsophrys popei — Li, Zhang, Lyu, Wang, Li, Liu, Chen, Rao, Jin, Zhang, and Wang, 2020, Zool. Res., Kunming: 105–122.

Brachytarsophrys guilinensis Wu, Pan, Xiao, Chen, Yu, and Wei, 2025, Zoosyst. Evol., 101: 1374. Holotype: GXNU YU000904, by original designation. Type locality: "Wantian Township, Lingui District, Guilin City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China (25°31'53.54"N, 110°2'43.12"E, 289 m a.s.l; . . .)." ZooBank Publication registration: 68884383-5514-40E5-BBCC-A6DF9BE93BDE. Synonymy by Mahony, Phimmachak, Seateun, Sivongxay, Hoang, Le, Streicher, Rowley, and Stuart, 2026, Zootaxa, 5854: 127.

Brachytarsophrys wui Lyu, Zhou, and Long in Lyu, Zhou, Zhang, Fang, Ran, Dai, Jiang, Long, and Yuan, 2026, Zoosyst. Evol., 102: 76. Holotype: GIB1972747, by original designation. Type locality: "from Lengshui River of Mt. Foding Nature Reserve, Shiqian County, Guizhou Province, China (27.326006°N, 108.142440°E, elevation 740–1000 m. a.s.l.; . . .)". ZooBank Publication registration: 7A78D1BF-6700-4AE2-8FFC-CA5D18A5D5A6. Synonymy by Mahony, Phimmachak, Seateun, Sivongxay, Hoang, Le, Streicher, Rowley, and Stuart, 2026, Zootaxa, 5854: 127.

Megophrys guilinensis — Mahony, Phimmachak, Seateun, Sivongxay, Hoang, Le, Streicher, Rowley, and Stuart, 2026, Zootaxa, 5854: 4.

Megophrys wui — Mahony, Phimmachak, Seateun, Sivongxay, Hoang, Le, Streicher, Rowley, and Stuart, 2026, Zootaxa, 5854: 4.

Common Names

Pope's Short-legged Frog (Li, Zhang, Lyu, Wang, Li, Liu, Chen, Rao, Jin, Zhang, and Wang, 2020, Zool. Res., Kunming: 115).

珀普短腿蟾 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 5).

Wu’s Short-Legged Toad (Brachytarsophrys wui [no longer recognized]: original publication).

伍氏短腿蟾 (Brachytarsophrys wui [no longer recognized]: Chinese: original publication).

Guilin Short-legged Toad (Brachytarsophrys gulinensis [no longer recognized]: original publication).

桂林短腿蟾 (Brachytarsophrys gulinensis [no longer recognized]:Chinese: original publication).

Distribution

Mount Jinggang, Jiangxi Province, the adjacent Taoyuangdong Nature Reserve and Mangshan, Yizhang County, Hunan Province, and the Nanling Reserve, Guangdong Province, China, at 900 to 1300 m elevation along rocky streams in moist subtropical evergreen broadleaves forests; Mt. Foding National Nature Reserve, Shiqian County, Guizhou Province, China, 740 to 1000 m elevation; Wantian Township, Lingui District, Guilin City, northeastern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, 289 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

In the Brachytarsophrys feae group of Li, Zhang, Lyu, Wang, Li, Liu, Chen, Rao, Jin, Zhang, and Wang, 2020, Zool. Res., Kunming: 105–122. Qian, Li, Chen, Li, and Yang, 2023, ZooKeys, 1139: 1–32, described larval morphology from Yizhang County, northern Guangdong Province, southern China.

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