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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.
* = "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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Petropedetes Reichenow, 1874

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Petropedetidae > Genus: Petropedetes

9 species

Petropedetes Reichenow, 1874, Arch. Naturgesch., 40: 290. Type species: Petropedetes cameronensis Reichenow, 1874, by monotypy. Placed on the Official List of Generic Name by Opinion 1921, Anonymous, 1999, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 56: 96-100.

Petropedites — O'Shaughnessy, 1876, Zool. Rec., 11: 84. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Tympanoceros Barboza du Bocage, 1895, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, Ser. 2, 3 (12): 270. Type species: Tympanoceros newtoni Bocage, 1895, by monotypy. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 439.

Common Names

African Water Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 103).

Distribution

Eastern Nigeria through Cameroon to southern Gabon to an including borderlands with Rep. Congo, with an apparent gap at Togo; Bioko, (Equatorial Guinea).

Comment

Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 369-374; and Amiet, 1973, Bull. Inst. Fondam. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 35: 462-474, discussed the Cameroon species. Perret, 1984, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 107: 169, provided an identification matrix for the species. Barej, Rödel, Gonwouo, Pauwels, Böhme, and Schmitz, 2010, Zootaxa, 2340: 1-49, reviewed the species of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria and provided an identification key. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 264–272, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta, Castroviejo-Fisher, and De la Riva, 2018, ZooKeys, 765: 59–78, provided a revision and key to the species.

Contained taxa (9 sp.):

Petropedetes cameronensis Reichenow, 1874

Petropedetes euskircheni Barej, Rödel, Gonwouo, Pauwels, Böhme, and Schmitz, 2010

Petropedetes johnstoni (Boulenger, 1888)

Petropedetes juliawurstnerae Barej, Rödel, Gonwouo, Pauwels, Böhme, and Schmitz, 2010

Petropedetes newtonii (Barboza du Bocage, 1895)

Petropedetes palmipes Boulenger, 1905

Petropedetes parkeri Amiet, 1983

Petropedetes perreti Amiet, 1973

Petropedetes vulpiae Barej, Rödel, Gonwouo, Pauwels, Böhme, and Schmitz, 2010

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