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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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Uperodon triangularis (Günther, 1876)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Uperodon > Species: Uperodon triangularis

Callula triangularis Günther, 1876 "1875", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1875: 576. Syntypes: BMNH 1874.4.29.891–900 (now reregistered as 1947.2.11.9–18) and 1874.4.29.1010 (now reregistered 1947.2.30.94), according to Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 95, according to museum records. Type locality: "Malabar", India; Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 8, noted the imprecision of this type locality.

Kaloula triangularis — Rao, 1918, Rec. Indian Mus., 15: 44; Ramaswami, 1937 "1936", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1936: 1151.

Ramanella triangularis — Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 94.

Ramanella triangularis rufeventris Rao, 1937, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., Ser. B, 6: 418. Holotype: CCB; lost according to Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 157; ZSi/WGRC/V/A 959 designated neotype by Garg, Senevirathne, Wijayathilaka, Phuge, Deuti, Manamendra-Arachchi, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2018, Zootaxa, 4384: 37. Type locality: "Mudigere, Kadur, Sakespur, Hassan [District]", South India. Neotype from the same locality: "Mudigere, Karnataka state, India>

Uperodon triangularis — Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 140.

Common Names

Malabar Dot Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 92).

Malabar Ramanella (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 58).

Triangular Spotted Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 45).

Malabar Narrow-mouthed Frog (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 131).

Triangle-spotted Ramanaella (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 131).

Triangle-spotted Balloon Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 8).

Distribution

High elevations of the Western Ghats and Ponmudi Hills, in southwestern India (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Kerala), 300 to 950 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

See brief account by Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 409–410. See comment by Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 9. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 45–46, provided a brief account. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 131–134, provided an account. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted several larval descriptions in the literature of varying completeness. Kuramoto and Dubois, 2009, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 28: 65–70, reported the advertisement call. A very brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 75. Sivaprasad, 2013, Common Amph. Kerala: 96–97, provided a brief account, photograph, and dot map for Kerala, India. See account by Garg, Senevirathne, Wijayathilaka, Phuge, Deuti, Manamendra-Arachchi, Meegaskumbura, and Biju, 2018, Zootaxa, 4384: 37–39, who reported on molecular phylogenetics, advertisement call, external and larval morphology, and range.

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