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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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Pelodytes caucasicus Boulenger, 1896

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pelodytidae > Genus: Pelodytes > Species: Pelodytes caucasicus

Pelodytes caucasicus Boulenger, 1896, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 17: 406. Holotype: BMNH, by original designation; BMNH 1947..2.25.65 (formerly numbered 1896.3.28.5) by museum records. Type locality: "Mount Lomis, Caucasus, 7000 feet", near Bakuriani, Georgia.

Pelodytopsis caucasica — Nikolskii, 1896, Annu. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 1: 138.

Pelodytes punctatus caucasicus — Terentjev, 1949, Nauchnyi Biull. Leningrad. Univ., 23: 34.

Pelodytopsis caucasicus — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 135. Arbitrary erection of a monotypic genus.

English Names

Caucasus Parsley Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 96; Tarkhnishvili and Gokhelashvili, 1999, Adv. Amph. Res. Former Soviet Union, 4: v).

Caucasian Parsley Frog (Stumpel-Rienks, 1992, Ergänzungsband Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., Trivialnamen der Herpetofauna Eur.: 53; Kuzmin, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 115; Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 225).

Distribution

Generally associated with broad-leaved and mixed coniferous-deciduous forest from the northwestern Caucasus and western Transcaucasia of extreme northern Azerbaijan, Russia and Georgia, and adjacent northeastern Turkey from Trabzon province to the east.

Comment

See accounts by Başoğlu and Özeti, 1973, Türkiye Amphibileri: 82–84, Golubev, 1980, Vestn. Zool., Kiev, 1980: 52–55; and Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 225–230. Kuzmin, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 114–115, discussed relevant literature and distribution. Özeti and Yilmaz, 1994, Türkiye Amfibileri: 120–123, provided an account for Turkish populations. Kaya, 2002, Israel J. Ecol. Evol., 48: 263–274, described the advertisement call. Beşir and Gül, 2019, Herpetol. Notes, 12: 45–51, provided a dot map for Rize Province, northeastern Turkey. Çiçek, Yakin, Afsar, Ayaz, and Tok, 2019, Acta Biol. Turcica, 32: 37–41, provided new localities in Turkey and a dot map for the species' range. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 51, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology, a range map, as well as a photograph. Litvinchuk and Kidov, 2018, Nat. Conserv. Res., 3 (Suppl. 1): 51–60, discussed the distribution and conservation status and provided a dot map. Kuzmin, 2013, Amph. Former Soviet Union, Ed. 2: 131–133, provided an account for the former USSR. Ergül Kalaycı, Gümüşsoy, and Gül, 2021, J. Anatol. Environ. Animal Sci., 6: 712–716, reported on morphological variation in Anatolia, Turkey. Gasimova, 2021, Biharean Biol., 15: 112–116, discussed the range in Azerbaijan, and provided a dot map. Ergül Kalaycı and Gümüşsoy, 2022, Zool. Middle East, 68: 218–224, reported on the genetic diversity of the species and its placement as the sister taxon of the remaining species of Pelodytes.

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