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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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Micrixalus Boulenger, 1888

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Micrixalidae > Genus: Micrixalus

24 species

Micrixalus Boulenger, 1888, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1888: 205. Type species: Ixalus fuscus Boulenger, 1882, by subsequent designation of Myers, 1942, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 55: 74.

Common 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).

Torrential Frogs (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 6).

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.):

Micrixalus adonis Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014

Micrixalus candidus Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014

Micrixalus elegans (Rao, 1937)

Micrixalus frigidus Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014

Micrixalus fuscus (Boulenger, 1882)

Micrixalus gadgili Pillai and Pattabiraman, 1990

Micrixalus herrei Myers, 1942

Micrixalus kodayari Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014

Micrixalus kottigeharensis (Rao, 1937)

Micrixalus kurichiyari Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014

Micrixalus mallani Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014

Micrixalus nelliyampathi Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014

Micrixalus nigraventris Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014

Micrixalus niluvasei Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014

Micrixalus nudis Pillai, 1978

Micrixalus phyllophilus (Jerdon, 1853)

Micrixalus sairandhri Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014

Micrixalus sali Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014

Micrixalus saxicola (Jerdon, 1853)

Micrixalus silvaticus (Boulenger, 1882)

Micrixalus specca Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014

Micrixalus spelunca Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014

Micrixalus thampii Pillai, 1981

Micrixalus uttaraghati Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014

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