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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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Microhyla sundaica Trofimets, Dufresnes, Pawangkhanant, Bragin, Gorin, Hasan, Lalremsanga, Muin, Le, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, and Poyarkov, 2024

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Microhyla > Species: Microhyla sundaica

Microhyla sundaica Trofimets, Dufresnes, Pawangkhanant, Bragin, Gorin, Hasan, Lalremsanga, Muin, Le, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, and Poyarkov, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 621. Holotype: ZMMU A-8011, by original designation. Type locality: "environs of Sungai Tua Recreational Forest, Selangor State, Malaysia (approximate coordinates: 3.32°N, 101.70°E)". Zoobank Publication registration: AEAAD093-B116-42C7-B627-A4F9BCE6840D.

Common Names

Sundaic Narrow-mouthed Frog (original publication).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo (Sabah, Malaysia, and South Kalimantan Province, Indonesia) and Sumatra (Bengkulu and Sumatera Selatan provinces, Indonesia); likely in Sarawak, Malaysia, and possibly extending into southernmost peninsular Thailand but not so far recorded there.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Indonesia, Malaysia, Malaysia, East (Sarawak and/or Sabah), Malaysia, West (Peninsular)

Likely/Controversially Present: Thailand

Comment

Previously confused with nominal Microhyla berdmorei, which was revised by Trofimets, Dufresnes, Pawangkhanant, Bragin, Gorin, Hasan, Lalremsanga, Muin, Le, Nguyen, Suwannapoom, and Poyarkov, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 595–641, resulting in the recognition of four species, for which they discussed comparative adult and larval morphology, morphometrics, advertisement calls, and molecular markers. This revision should be consulted for access to relevant literature under the name Microhyla berdmorei. Teynié, David, and Ohler, 2010, Zootaxa, 2416: 8, commented (as Microhyla berdmorei) on the range in Sumatra. Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 149–151, provided an account (as Microhyla berdmorei). Haas, Kueh, Joseph, bin Asri, Das, Hagmann, Schwander, and Hertwig, 2018, Evol. Syst., 2: 89–114, provided a brief account (as Microhyla berdmorei) of morphology and natural history for the Sabah population. Firdaus, Ratih, Karima, Kusuma, and Suastika, 2018, Bioinform. Biomed. Res. J., 1: 1–6, reported (as Microhyla berdmorei, but presumably based on Microhyla sundaica, Microhyla malcolmi, and possibly Microhyla peninsularis) on the mtDNA phylogenetic relationships of the species of Microhyla within Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and peninsular Malaysia, placing this species Microhyla achatina + (Microhyla mantheyi + Microhyla borneensis + (Microhyla mantheyi + (Microhyla borneensis + Microhyla malang))). See Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 118–119, for general account (as Microhyla berdmorei, but presumably applying to Microhyla sundaica, Microhyla malcolmi, and/or possibly Microhyla peninsularis). Gorin, Scherz, Korost, and Poyarkov, 2021, Zoosyst. Evol., 97 : supplementary information, provided genetically-confirmed records (as Microhyla berdmorei) from Bangladesh, peninsular Malaysia (Selangor [now Microhyla peninsularis]), Sumatra [now Microhyla sundaica], Borneo (now Microhyla sundaica: Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysia; Kalimantan, Indonesia), Thailand (now Microhyla peninsularis and/or Microhyla malcolmi: Suratthani and Phrae provinces), Vietnam (now Microhyla malcolmi: Tay Ninh, Lam Dong, and Kon Tum provinces), Laos (now Microhyla malcolmi: Khammouan). Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 304–305, summarized (as Microhyla berdmorei) the knowledge of habitat, reproduction, larval morphology and coloration.

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