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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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Micryletta Dubois, 1987

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Micryletta

14 species

Micryletta Dubois, 1987, Alytes, 6: 4. Type species: Microhyla inornata Boulenger, 1890, by original designation.

Common Names

Paddy Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 91; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 8).

小姬蛙属 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 15; Yuan, Chen, Wu, Li, and Che, 2022, Biodiversity Sci., 30 (4: 21470): 4).

Distribution

Northeastern India and Taiwan to Yunnan, China, and West Malaysia and Sumatra; Nicobar and Andaman Is. (India).

Comment

This taxon was not recognized subsequently by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 163, as distinct from Microhyla. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 100, regarded Microhyla erythropoda as a member of Micryletta; without discussion. Formerly in the Old World component of Microhylinae; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 225, removed Micryletta from any subfamily pending resolution of its phylogenetic placement. van der Meijden, Vences, Hoegg, Boistel, Channing, and Meyer, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 44: 1017-1030, on the basis of DNA sequence data placed Micryletta as a member of Microhylinae (sensu stricto). Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, placed this genus as the sister taxon of a group composed of Chaperina, Glyphoglossus, Calluella, and Microhyla. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2:916-924, provided a key, accounts, and spot maps for Chinese species. Miller, Zug, Wogan, Lee, and Mulcahy, 2021, Ichthyol. & Herpetol., 109: 245–257, discussed phylogeny and distribution, with a primary focus on Myanmar. Othman and Borzée, 2026, Heredity, 135: 497–524, reported on divergence times, phylogeographic patterns and their drivers (barriers, climate fluctuations, glaciation and sea level change, and anthropogenic influences) for the last 60M years with particular reference to northeastern Asia (northeastern China, Korean Peninsula, and Japan); beyond the analysis a great source of relevant published literature.

Contained taxa (14 sp.):

Micryletta aishani Das, Garg, Hamidy, Smith, and Biju, 2019

Micryletta dissimulans Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Pawangkhanant, Gorin, Chomdej, Che, and Poyarkov, 2020

Micryletta erythropoda (Tarkhnishvili, 1994)

Micryletta hekouensis Liu, Hou, Mo, and Rao, 2021

Micryletta immaculata Yang and Poyarkov, 2021

Micryletta inornata (Boulenger, 1890)

Micryletta lineata (Taylor, 1962)

Micryletta melanops Poyarkov, Nguyen, Yang, and Gorin, 2021

Micryletta menglienica (Yang and Su, 1980)

Micryletta nigromaculata Poyarkov, Nguyen, Duong, Gorin, and Yang, 2018

Micryletta steinegeri (Boulenger, 1909)

Micryletta subaraji Sankar, Law, Law, Shivaram, Abraham, and Chan, 2022

Micryletta sumatrana Munir, Hamidy, Matsui, Kusrini, and Nishikawa, 2020

Micryletta thongphaphumensis Cao, Suwannapoom, Kilunda, Wu, and Che, 2024

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