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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 menglienica (Yang and Su, 1980)

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

Kalophrynus menglienicus Yang and Su, 1980, Zool. Res., Kunming, 1: 257. Holotype: KIZ 75I377, by original designation. Type locality: "Menglien, Yunnan, altitude 1040 m", China.

Micryletta menglienica — Liu, Yang, Wang, and Hou, 2021, Herpetozoa, Wien, 34: 223.

Common Names

Menglien Grainy Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 90).

Menglien Narrow-mouthed Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 304).

Menglien Dwarf Sticky Frog (Zug, 2015, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 62: 170).

Distribution

Known only from the vicinity of the type locality (Menglien, southern Yunnan, China), northwestern Vietnam, and northwestern Laos in Xaignabouly District, Xaignabouly Province, 320 m, although likely more widespread; presumably to be found in adjacent Myanmar.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Likely/Controversially Present: Myanmar

Comment

Related to Kalophrynus punctatus, according to the original publication. See accounts by Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 227-228; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 304-305. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 133-134. Ohler and Grosjean, 2005, Herpetozoa, Wien, 18: 99-106, noted the Vietnam records. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 119-120, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 950-953, provided an account and spot map for China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 498, provided a brief account for China including photographs of specimens. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 589, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. See account by Zug, 2015, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 62: 170. Liu, Yang, Wang, and Hou, 2021, Herpetozoa, Wien, 34: 223–232, transferred the species to Micryletta on the basis of 16S mtDNA and morphological analysis. Stuart, Seateun, Sivongxay, and Phimmachak, 2025 "2024", in Wildlife Lao PDR: 37, summarized literature, taxonomy, habitat, and detailed range for Laos.

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