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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.
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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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Uperodon assamensis (Das, Sengupta, Ahmed, and Dutta, 2005)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Uperodon > Species: Uperodon assamensis

Kaloula assamensis Das, Sengupta, Ahmed, and Dutta, 2005, Hamadryad, 29: 103. Holotype: ZSIC A.100069, by original designation. Type locality: "Majbat (26° 45′ N; 92° 20′ E; 141 m ASL), Sonitpur District, Assam state, north-east India".

Uperodon assamensis — Portik, Streicher, and Wiens, 2023, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 188 (107907): 66.

Common Names

Assamese Balloon Frog (Ahmed, Das, and Dutta, 2009, Amph. Rept. NE India: 31).

Assam Narrowmouth Toad (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 51).

Assam Painted Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 7).

Distribution

Known from four localities in Sonitpur District, one in Bongaigaon District, one (Manas National Park) in Baka District, and one in Darang District, Assam, India; (Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary) in Arunachal Pradesh, India; Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri districts, northeastern West Bengal, and from the Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Bihar, northeastern Indial also reported from Ratnanagar, Nepal (iNaturalist, no voucher) and from Madaripur District, Bangladesh. Records from Bangladesh and Nepal require genetic confirmation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bangladesh, India, Nepal

Comment

Talukdar, Soud, and Deuti, 2007, Cobra, Chennai, 1 (1): 18-20, provided a new record and summarized the known range. Paul, Biswas, and Deuti, 2007, Cobra, Chennai, 1 (3): 15-16, provided a record for northeastern West Bengal. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. Ahmed, Das, and Dutta, 2009, Amph. Rept. NE India: 31, provided a brief account for northeastern India. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 63, provided a brief characterization and photographs. Nath, Ahmed, and Singha, 2011, Frog Leg, 17: 22–23, provided a record from Bongagaon District, Assam, India. Deuti, Sethy, Ray, and Chattopadhyay, 2012, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 109: 208–209, reported the species from Valmiki Tiger Reserve in Bihar. India. Das, Basu, Converse, and Choudhury, 2012, J. Threatened Taxa, 4: 2556, noted an animal in Uttar Pradesh that resembles this species in color pattern but with different in morphometrics and web formula; they treated it as an unknown, possibly unnamed species. Mandal, Lahkar, Basumatary, and Purkayastha, 2024, Reptiles & Amphibians, 31(e21129): 1–2, reported a specimen from Manas National Park, Assam, India, near the Bhutan border and provided a dot map of the known distribution of the species. Hasan, Uddin, Islam, Uddin, Ullah, Roy, Köck, Andrijczuk, Chowdhury, and Al Haidar, 2025, Check List, 21: 1153–1159, reported the species from Madaripur District, Bangladesh, and a dot map and summary of the known distribution provided.

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