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
	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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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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Pelobates cultripes (Cuvier, 1829)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pelobatidae > Genus: Pelobates > Species: Pelobates cultripes

Rana cultripes Cuvier, 1829, Regne Animal., Ed. 2, 2: 105. Types: Not designated, although MNHNP 0.4554, by museum records. Type locality: "Notre midi produit une grenouille (R. cultripes, Nob.)", which translates roughly as "the south of our country harbors the frog R. cultripes, Nob.)"; given as "south of France" by Cuvier, 1831, Animal Kingdom (M'Murtrie), 2: 79.

Rana calcarata Michahelles, 1830, Isis von Oken, 23: 807. Types: Not designated. Type locality: "prope Malagam", Spain. Synonymy (with Pelobates fuscus) by Bonaparte, 1838, Iconograph. Fauna Ital., 2 (Fasc. 23): 119; Bonaparte, 1840, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, Ser. 2, 2: 444; Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 345; placed in synonymy of Pelobates cultripes by Schreiber, 1875, Herpetol. Eur.: 92, Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 38, and Schulze, 1891, Jahresber. Abhandl. Naturwiss. Ver. Magdeburg, 1890: 174.

Cultripes provincialis Müller, 1832, Isis von Oken, 25: 538. Type(s): Not designated, although likely originally in the MNHNP. Type locality: "Provence", France. Synonymy by Schinz, 1833, Naturgesch. Abbild Rept.: 221; Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 83; Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 483; Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 40; Schreiber, 1875, Herpetol. Eur.: 92; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 438.

Bufo calcaratus — Schinz, 1833, Naturgesch. Abbild Rept.: 233.

Rana cultripes cultripes — Schinz, 1833, Naturgesch. Abbild Rept.: 221, by implication.

Pelabates calcaratus — Schinz, 1833, Naturgesch. Abbild Rept.: 233. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Pelobates, attributed to Wagler.

Pelobates cultripes — Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 83. Boscá, 1877, An. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., 6: 62.

Cultripes cultripes — Leunis, 1844, Synops. Drei Naturr., Zool., Ed. 1: 146. Leunis, 1860, Synops. Drei Naturr., Zool., Ed. 2: 146.

Didocus calcaratus — Cope, 1866, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 81.

English Names

Western Spadefoot (Arnold and Burton, 1978, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Brit. Eur.: 67; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 108; Lizana, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 108; Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 68).

Iberian Spadefoot Toad (Lizana, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 108).

Spanish Spadefoot (Hellmich, 1962, Rept. Amph. Eur.: 62).

Spanish Spadefoot Toad (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 108).

Iberian Spadefoot (Stumpel-Rienks, 1992, Ergänzungsband Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., Trivialnamen der Herpetofauna Eur.: 51).

Wagler's Spadefoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 96).

Distribution

Iberian Peninsula (excluding central coastal Portugal and the Pyrenean regions of Spain) and southern and western France in isolated populations.

Comment

Lizana, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 108-109, discussed relevant literature and distribution. Nöllert and Nöllert, 1992, Die Amph. Eur.: 272-274, provided an account and polygon map. Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 68-69, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Lizana, 1997, in Pleguezuelos (ed.), Dist. Biogeogr. Anf. Rep. Esp. Portugal: 140-142, provided a brief account, photograph, and detailed map for Iberia. Llorente, Montori, Santos, and Carretero, 1995, Atlas Amf. Rept. Catalunya Andorra: 61-63, provided an account and detailed range map for Catalunya. : 122–123, reported on a population in the Garraf Massif, Municipality of Gavà, Catalonia, Spain. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 627. Crottini, Galán, and Vences, 2010, Amphibia-Reptilia, 31: 443-448, reported on mitochondrial variation in northwestern Spain. Rivera, Escoriza, Maluquer-Margalef, Arribas, and Carranza, 2011, Amf. Rept. Catalunya: 69-71, provided a brief account for northeastern Spain and adjacent France. Speybroeck, Beukema, Bok, and Van Der Voort, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Brit. Eur.: 141–142, provided a brief account and range map. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Barbosa, and Martínez-Solano, 2017, J. Biogeograph., 44: 245–258, reported on molecular phylogeography as well as a biogeographical history reconstruction. Dufresnes, Strachinis, Tzoras, Litvinchuk, and Denoël, 2019, ZooKeys, 859: 131–158, provided a brief account, reporting on range and relationships. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 54, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology, a range map, as well as a photograph.

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