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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
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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 hekouensis Liu, Hou, Mo, and Rao, 2021

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

Micryletta hekouensis Liu, Hou, Mo, and Rao, 2021, Herpetozoa, Wien, 34: 133. Holotype: KIZ 20210510, by original designation. Type locality: "Nanxi village, Nanxi Town, Hekou County, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China (22°38'17"N, 103°59'8"E, elevation 350 m a.s.l.)". http://zoobank.org/1CEEDB31-AFF2-427B-A219-860D0C0C991E

Microhyla hekouensis — Yuan, Chen, Wu, Li, and Che, 2022, Biodiversity Sci., 30 (4: 21470): 7. Undiscussed combination.

Common Names

Hekou Paddy Frog (original publication).

河口小姬蛙 (Chinese: Yuan, Chen, Wu, Li, and Che, 2022, Biodiversity Sci., 30 (4: 21470): 7).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Nanxi Town, Hekou County, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China; Hai Phong, Ha Nam, and Ninh Binh provinces, northern Vietnam.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Vietnam

Comment

External morphology, coloration, and molecular markers discussed in the original publication. Nguyen, Liu, Tran, Tran, Trofimets, Dau, and Poyarkov, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 111–121, discussed the diagnostic characters of the species and confirmed records from Cat Ba National Park, Hai Phong, Vietnam, and Cuc Phuong National Park, Ninh Binh, Vietnam. Pham, Nguyen, Phan, Le, Pham, and Pham, 2025, Biodiversity Data J., 13 (e159973): 1–25, reported the species from Ha Nam Province, northern Vietnam (south of Hanoi) and briefly discussed the range and ecology in Vietnam.

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