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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 poilani Bourret, 1937

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

Ophryophryne poilani Bourret, 1937, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1937: 8. Holotype: MNHNP 1948.113, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 16. Type locality: "Dong-Tam-Ve, province de Quang-Tri (Annam)", central Vietnam.

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

Common Names

Poilan’s Mountain Toad (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 36).

Poilane's Mountain Toad (Stuart, Seateun, Sivongxay, and Phimmachak, 2025 "2024", in Wildlife Lao PDR: 34).

Dong-Tam-Ve Mountain Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 86).

Distribution

Central and southern Vietnam and northeastern Cambodia; Central Annamites in Karum District, Xekong Province, 920–1000 m elevation, and Bolaven plateau, Pakxong District, Champasak Province, 400–1200 m elevation, Laos.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam

Comment

See brief account by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 162–163. Removed from the synonymy of Ophryophryne microstoma by Stuart, Rowley, Neang, Emmett, and Sitha, 2010, Cambodian J. Nat. Hist., 2010: 38, where it had been placed by Ohler, 2003, Alytes, 21: 31. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 15, provided specific localities for Vietnam (as both Ophryophryne poilani and Ophryophryne microstoma). Stuart, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 475, noted that the report for Laos (as Ophryophryne poilani) by Stuart, 1999, in Duckworth et al. (eds.), Wildlife in Lao PDR: 45, was based on Ophryophryne hansi. Stuart, Rowley, Neang, Emmett, and Sitha, 2010, Cambodian J. Nat. Hist., 2010: 38, provided a record for northeastern Cambodia (as Ophryophryne poilani) and disputed the synonymy as well as documenting sympatry Ophryophryne hansi. Poyarkov, Duong, Orlov, Gogoleva, Vassilieva, Nguyen, Nguyen, Nguyen, Che, and Mahony, 2017, ZooKeys, 672: 49–120, provided records of Ophryophryne cf. poilani from Quang Nam and Thua Thien-Hue province, Vietnam. Stuart, Seateun, Sivongxay, and Phimmachak, 2025 "2024", in Wildlife Lao PDR: 34, summarized literature, taxonomy, habitat, and detailed range for Laos.

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