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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 |
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Hyla |
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| 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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Micrixalus Boulenger, 1888
24 species
English Names
Tropical Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102).
Indian Dancing Frogs (Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014, Ceylon J. Sci., Biol. Sci., 43: 14).
Distribution
India.
Comment
Pillai, 1978, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Ser. B, 87: 173-177, supplied a key to the species of India and Sri Lanka. See comment under Platymantis liui. In the subfamily Raninae, tribe Ranini of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 39, who (pp. 51-55) discussed and redefined the taxon. See comment under Ingerana. Placed as the sole member of the Micrixalinae by Dubois, Ohler, and Biju, 2001, Alytes, 19: 54. Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014, Ceylon J. Sci., Biol. Sci., 43: 1-87, revised the species and recognized five similarity groupings: (1) Micrixalus elegans group (Micrixalus candidus, Micrixalus elegans, Micrixalus kurichiyari, Micrixalus niluvasei, Micrixalus sairandhri, Micrixalus spelunca, and Micrixalus uttaraghati); (2) Micrixalus fuscus group (Micrixalus adonis, Micrixalus fuscus, Micrixalus herrei, Micrixalus mallani, Micrixalus nelliyampathi, and Micrixalus kodayari); (3) Micrixalus nudis group (M. gadgili, Micrixalus nudis, Micrixalus sali, and Micrixalus thampii); (4) Micrixalus saxicola group (Micrixalus kottigeharensis, Micrixalus saxicola and Micrixalus specca); and (5) Micrixalus silvaticus group (Micrixalus frigidus, Micrixalus nigraventris, Micrixalus phyllophilus, and Micrixalus silvaticus).
Contained taxa (24 sp.):
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