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* = "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 fuscus (Boulenger, 1882)

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

Ixalus fuscus Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 96. Syntypes: Many specimens in BMNH including animal figured in pl. 10, fig. 3 in the original publication; syntypes are BMNH 72.4.12.256, 74.4.29.258–265, 74.4.29.927–930, 74.4.29.1401–1404, 74.4.29.1459–64, 74.4.29.1506–08 according Dutta, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 461. Syntypes considered to be BMNH 1874.4.29–1506–1508 by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 53. BMNH 74.4.29.258 designated lectotype by Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014, Ceylon J. Sci., Biol. Sci., 43: 31. Type localities: "Travancore"; "Torocata"; "Anamallays"; "Sevagherry"; "Malabar"; "N. Canara" (all localities in India). Lectotype is from "Travancore", India.

Micrixalus fuscus — Boulenger, 1888, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1888: 205.

Micrixalus herrei Myers, 1942, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 55: 71. Holotype: CAS-SU 7265, by original designation. Type locality: "Kallar, 30 miles northeast of Trivandrum, Travancore, South India". Synonymy by Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 410.

Staurois fuscus — Forcart, 1946, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 57: 130.

Common Names

Brown Tropical Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 102).

Dusky Torrent Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65; Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 211; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 46; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 6).

Kalakkad Dancing Frog (Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014, Ceylon J. Sci., Biol. Sci., 43: 31).

Distribution

Western Ghats in the Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, with its distribution restricted to south of Shencottah Gap; reported specifically in Kakkachi and Sengaltheri (Tirunelveli District) in Tamil Nadu state, and Athirimala and Pandipath (Thiruvananthapuram District) in Kerala state.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

See brief accounts by Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 410–412, and Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 57–58 (who, page 58, also recognized Micrixalus herrei as distinct, without discussion). Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 139–140, provided range, systematic comments, and partial taxonomic bibliography. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 211–212, provided an account. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 630, who suggested that this taxon is a species complex. A very brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 59. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions. Biju, Garg, Gururaja, Shouche, and Walujkar, 2014, Ceylon J. Sci., Biol. Sci., 43: 1–87, revised and redlimited the species to exclude a number of other new and revived species in the Micrixalus fuscus group; earlier literature therefore addresses composites of species in the Micrixalus fuscus group. Sivaprasad, 2013, Common Amph. Kerala: 66–67, provided a brief account, photograph, and dot map for Kerala, India.

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