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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 lineata (Taylor, 1962)

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

Microhyla inornata lineata Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 546. Holotype: EHT 35534, by original designation; now FMNH 178245 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 58. Type locality: "10 km. West of Nakhon Si Thammarat", Thailand.

Micryletta lineata — Zug and Mulcahy, 2020 "2019", Amph. Rept. S. Tanintharyi: 49; Miller, Zug, Wogan, Lee, and Mulcahy, 2021, Ichthyol. & Herpetol., 109: 245.

English Names

Striped Paddy Frog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 33).

Distribution

Isthmus of Kra region in southern Myanmar (Tanintharyi Region) and adjacent western Thailand (Ratchaburi, Petchaburi, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Trang, Narathiwat provinces), reaching its apparent northern latitudinal limit at nearly 15°N; possibly extends north into the Salween Basin of Myanmar and south into northern peninsular Malaysia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Myanmar, Thailand

Comment

Mulcahy, Lee, Miller, Chand, Thura, and Zug, 2018, ZooKeys, 757: 95, provided a record from Taninthary Division, southern Myanmar. Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Amph. E. Region Thailand: 130, detailed the distribution in Thailand. Munir, Hamidy, Matsui, Kusrini, and Nishikawa, 2020, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 37: 295–301, discussed the species complex, naming another species from Sumatra and noting that Micryletta inornata lineata is closer to Micrylette erythropoda than to nominal Micryletta inornata. Zug and Mulcahy, 2020 "2019", Amph. Rept. S. Tanintharyiezembed: 49, provided a brief account, as Micryletta lineata, for South Tanintharyi, peninsular Myanmar,and first treated as a distinct species from Microhyla inornata, but without explanation. Subsequently, Miller, Zug, Wogan, Lee, and Mulcahy, 2021, Ichthyol. & Herpetol., 109: 245–257, provided mtDNA evidence for the taxonomic change and provided a map, literature review, and morphology. Literature prior to 2020 associated with Micryletta inornata (sensu lato, including Micryletta lineata) can be found in the comment under Micryletta inornata; they also suggested that the distinctiveness of Micryletta erythropoda from Micryletta lineata requires genetic confirmation. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 33, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar.

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