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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.
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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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Nasikabatrachidae Biju and Bossuyt, 2003

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Nasikabatrachidae

2 species

Nasikabatrachidae Biju and Bossuyt, 2003, Nature, 425: 711. Type genus: Nasikabatrachus Biju and Bossuyt, 2003.

English Names

Purple Pignosed Frog (Vitt and Caldwell, 2014, Herpetology, 4th Ed.: 501).

Distribution

Western Ghats of southern India.

Comment

See comment under Sooglossidae. 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: 191, regarded Nasikabatrachidae to be a synonym of Sooglossidae because the former is monotypic and the two together form a monophyletic unit. However, subsequent, nearly universal, usage has been to treat these as distinct due to the antiquity of both groups. Bossuyt and Roelants, 2009, in Hedges and Kumar (eds.), Timetree of Life: 357-364, considered this taxon a distinct family based on the age of its divergence from Sooglossidae. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their molecular study, confirmed this sister-taxon relationship of Nasikabatrachidae and Sooglossidae. Blackburn and Wake, 2011, In Zhang (ed.), Zootaxa, 3148: 39-55, briefly reviewed the taxonomic history of this taxon. Vitt and Caldwell, 2014, Herpetology, 4th Ed., provided a summary of life history, diagnosis, and taxonomy. Blotto, Biju, Pereyra, Araujo-Vieira, Faivovich, and Grant, 2022, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 135: 336–393, reported on hand and foot musculature, including synapomorphies of the superfamily (Sooglossoidea, including Nasikabatrachidae and Sooglossidae), convergences within the taxon, and discussed hind limb digging in anurans.

Contained taxa (2 sp.):

Nasikabatrachus Biju and Bossuyt, 2003 (2 sp.)

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