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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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Kalophrynus sinensis Peters, 1867

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Kalophryninae > Genus: Kalophrynus > Species: Kalophrynus sinensis

Calophrynus pleurostigma var. Sinensis Peters, 1867, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867: 33. Syntypes: ZMB 5696 (1 specimen; according to Bauer, Günther, and Robeck, 1996, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 72: 261) and NHMW 22887 (according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 14, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 18), although it is not clear from the description that more than one specimen was in Peters' hands. Type locality: "Hongkong", in error for "Dapa, Siargao", Philippines, according to Bauer, Günther, and Robeck, 1996, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 72: 261.

Calophrynus acutirostris Boettger, 1897, Zool. Anz., 20: 165. Holotype: SMF 4100 (formerly 1158. 2a) according to Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 49. Type locality: "Philippinen, entweder von Culion oder von Samar", Philippines. Synonymy with Kalophrynus pleurostigma by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 97; with Kalophrynus sinensis by Zug, 2015, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 62: 177.

Kalophrynus stellatus Stejneger, 1908, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 33: 575. Holotype: USNM 37375, by original designation. Type locality: "Basilan, Philippines Islands". Synonymy with Kalophrynus pleurostigma by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 97; Ohler and Grosjean, 2005, Herpetozoa, Wien, 18: 99-106; with Kalophrynus sinensis by Zug, 2015, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 62: 177.

Kalophrynus sinensis — Zug, 2015, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 62: 177.

Common Names

Philippine Sticky Frog (Zug, 2015, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 62: 177).

Distribution

Southern Philippine islands of Basilan, Bohol, Camiguin Sur, Culion, Dinagat, Leyte, Mindanao, and Samar.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Philippines

Endemic: Philippines

Comment

See account by Zug, 2015, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 62: 177–180, who removed the species from the synonymy of Kalophrynus pleurostigma, where it had been placed bySynonymy (with Kalophrynus pleurostigma pleurostigma) by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 99, Ohler and Grosjean, 2005, Herpetozoa, Wien, 18: 102, and Ohler and Grosjean, 2005, Herpetozoa, Wien, 18: 99-106.. See brief notes for Mindanao, Philippines, by Sanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos, Alcala, and Brown, 2016, ZooKeys, 624: 34–36, and Venturina, Diesmos, Maglangit, del Prado, Ordas, Fernandez, Dans, Warguez, and Diesmos, 2023, Philipp. J. Sci., 152: 2031–2048, reported on the presence in central Mindanao, Philippines.

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