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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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Ophryophryne gerti Ohler, 2003

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Megophryidae > Subfamily: Megophryinae > Genus: Ophryophryne > Species: Ophryophryne gerti

Ophryophryne gerti Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 25. Holotype: BMNH 1921.4.1.324, by original designation. Type locality: "Cam Ly (river), south-east of Da Lat (11° 56′ N, 108° 25′ E), Lang Bian Plateau, sLam Dong Province, Vietnam".

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

Ophryophryne gerti — Chen, Zhou, Poyarkov, Stuart, Brown, Lathrop, Wang, Yuan, Jiang, Hou, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Duong, Papenfuss, Murphy, Zhang, and Che, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 106: 40; Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Liu, Huang, Li, and Wang, 2021, Zootaxa, 4927: 40.

Common Names

Gert's Mountain Toad (Poyarkov, Duong, Orlov, Gogoleva, Vassilieva, Nguyen, Nguyen, Nguyen, Che, and Mahony, 2017, ZooKeys, 672: 78).

Gertis’ Mountain Toad (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 34).

Distribution

Langbian Plateau in southern Vietnam (Lam Dong, Dak Lak, Binh Dinh, and Phen Yu provinces, Vietnam (700–2000 m). Other records from Vietnam and Laos require confirmation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Vietnam

Endemic: Vietnam

Comment

The epithet gerti is a noun in apposition, not a genitive, as noted in the original publication. Stuart, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 475, provided a record for Champasak Province, Laos. Bain, Nguyen, and Doan, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 108, provided records from Thua Thien-Hue and Quang Name provinces, Vietnam, and briefly discussed the range. Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 23–42, tentatively regarded the specimens of Ophryophryne microstoma reported by Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 8, as Ophryophryne gerti. Poyarkov, Duong, Orlov, Gogoleva, Vassilieva, Nguyen, Nguyen, Nguyen, Che, and Mahony, 2017, ZooKeys, 672: 49–120, redelimited the species (pp. 77–81) and provided genetically confirmed records from Dak Lake Province, Vietnam. Do, Ngo, and Nguyen, 2017, Hue Univ. J. Sci: Nat. Sci., 126: 84, provided the several records from Phu Yen Province, southern Vietnam. Duong and Ngo, 2022, Herpetol. Notes, 15: 751–762, discussed range in Vietnam and provided records for Binh Dinh Province. Stuart, Seateun, Sivongxay, and Phimmachak, 2025 "2024", in Wildlife Lao PDR: 34–35, noted that a paratype of Ophryophryne gerti from “Huey Sapan, Pak Maat, Mekong, Laos” likely represents an unnamed species.

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