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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 cameronensis Reichenow, 1874

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

Petropedetes cameronensis Reichenow, 1874, Arch. Naturgesch., 40: 290. Holotype: Not designated; ZMG, according to Herrmann, 1989, Veröff. Naturhist. Mus. Schleusingen, 4: 13. Type locality: "Gebirgsbach bei Bimbia, in den Vorbergen des Camerun", near Victoria (now Limbé), Cameroon. Given as "Bimba, Cameroons" by Schiøtz, 1963, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 125: 47. Given as "Bonjongo", Cameroon by Herrmann, 1989, Veröff. Naturhist. Mus. Schleusingen, 4: 14. Placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology by Opinion 1921, Anonymous, 1999, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 56: 96-100.

Platymantis cameronensis — Peters, 1875, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1875: 211.

Hylambates cameronensis — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 137. Provisional generic assignment.

Hylambates (Platymantis) cameronensis — Knauer, 1878, Naturgesch. Lurche: 111.

Petropedetes cameronensis — Boulenger, 1900, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 439. Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 153.

Petropedetes obscurus Ahl, 1924, Zool. Anz., 58: 81-82. Syntypes: ZMB unnumbered according to the original publication; given as ZMB 21759 (2 specimens), by XXX. Type locality: "Tscharra Danafluss"; restated as Ishiara, Fleuve Tana, Kenya, by Perret, 1984, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 107: 167-170, who made this synonymy.

Common Names

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

Cameroon Torrent Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 318).

Distribution

Flowing streams in closed-canopy forests of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon; Bioko I. (Equatorial Guinea).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria

Comment

Schiøtz, 1963, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 125: 47, provided records for Nigeria. Herrmann, Böhme, Herrmann, Plath, Schmitz, and Solbach, 2005, Salamandra, 41: 61–81, reported the species from Nkebe waterfall and Nguéngué, southwestern Cameroon. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 627. Barej, Rödel, Gonwouo, Pauwels, Böhme, and Schmitz, 2010, Zootaxa, 2340: 30-35. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 266, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 318–319, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. See brief account, range map, and photographs for Equatorial Guinea in Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta, Castroviejo-Fisher, and De la Riva, 2020, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 66: 137–230.

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