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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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Grillitschia longipes (Boulenger, 1886)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Megophryinae > Genus: Grillitschia > Species: Grillitschia longipes

Megalophrys longipes Boulenger, 1886 "1885", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1885: 850. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.25.8 (formerly 1885.11.2.12) by museum records. Type locality: "The mountains of Perak, Straits of Malacca, at a height of 3,300 feet", Malaysia (Malaya).

Megophrys longipes — Gee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 20; Smith, 1930, Bull. Raffles Mus., 3: 132.

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

Megophrys (Xenophrys) longipes — Dubois and Ohler, 1998, Dumerilia, 4: 14; Mahony, Foley, Biju, and Teeling, 2017, Mol. Biol. Evol., 34: 755.

Xenophrys longipes — Khonsue and Thirakhupt, 2001, Nat. Hist. J. Chulalongkorn Univ., 1: 75; Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 23; by implication; Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2006, Alytes, 24: 17; Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 39.

Xenophrys (Xenophrys) longipes — 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.

Grillitschia longipes — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 133.

Common Names

Malacca Spadefoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86; Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 14).

Red Legged Spine-eyed Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 84).

Red-legged Horn Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 84).

Slender-legged Horned Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 84).

Malacca Horned Toad (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 36).

Long-legged Horned Frog (Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 152).

Bigfoot Horned Toadfrog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 28).

Distribution

Mountain ranges of peninsular Thailand and Tanintharyi Division, peninsular Myanmar, south to Malaya (West Malaysia), 300–1000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Malaysia, Malaysia, West (Peninsular), Myanmar, Thailand

Comment

See accounts by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 197–198, Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 437–438, Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 290–292, and Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 37. Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 41, considered Megophrys longipes to doubtfully range into Vietnam, and Ohler, Swan, and Daltry, 2002, Raffles Bull. Zool., 50: 471, doubted its existence in Cambodia or Vietnam. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 80–81. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 83, provided the Vietnam component of the range. Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 84, provided a brief characterization of this species, but Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 101, suggested that the animal photographed could not be allocated to this species. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 14, provided a number of records from throughout Vietnam; the status of the identifications needs to be evaluated. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 147, provided a photograph of a Vietnamese specimen of this nominal species. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 625, who thought that the records for Vietnam apply to Megophrys lateralis. Wogan, Vindum, Wilkinson, Koo, Slowinski, Win, Thin, Kyi, Oo, Lwin, and Shein, 2008, Hamadryad, 33: 84, provided the first record for Tanintharyi Division, peninsular Myanmar. Grismer, Chan, Grismer, Wood, and Ahmad, 2010, Russ. J. Herpetol., 17: 147–160, reported localities from the Banjaran Bintang Mountains, northwestern peninsular Malaysia. Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Amph. E. Region Thailand: 126, detailed the range in Thailand. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 152–153, provided a brief account (photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). In the Xenophrys aceras group of Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 9–40. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 28–29, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar.

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