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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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Phrynobatrachus gutturosus (Chabanaud, 1921)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Phrynobatrachidae > Genus: Phrynobatrachus > Species: Phrynobatrachus gutturosus

Arthroleptis gutturosus Chabanaud, 1921, Bull. Com. Études Hist. Scient. Afr. Occid. Franç., 1921: 452. Syntypes: MNHNP 1921.137–142, 1921.280–282, according to the original publication. Other authors list AMG (1 specimen, now PEM A1563 according to Conradie, Branch, and Watson, 2015, Zootaxa, 3936: 50), MRAC (5 specimens), BMNH 1947.2.6.49–50 (formerly 1927.2.19.1–2), 1947.2.6.51–75 (formerly 1921.6.16.8–39), and MCZ 12836 (exchanged from BMNH according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 225), according to Grandison, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 446, and museum records. Type locality: "Sanikolé", Liberia.

Phrynobatrachus (Pararthroleptis) gutturosus — Laurent, 1941, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 34: 207.

Phrynobatrachus gutturosus — Guibé and Lamotte, 1958, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 30: 257. Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 151; Guibé and Lamotte, 1963, Mem. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, 66: 620; Lamotte, 1967, Bull. Inst. Fondam. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 29: 259.

Common Names

Chabanaud's River Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 103).

Guttural Puddle Frog (Broadley, 1973, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 10: 23).

Distribution

Eastern Liberia to western Nigeria (see comment); expected in southern Guinea and Burkina Faso.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Benin, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Togo

Likely/Controversially Present: Burkina Faso, Guinea

Comment

Material from Katanga, Dem. Rep. Congo, assigned to Phrynobatrachus gutturosus by various authors was reassigned to Phrynobatrachus rungwensis by Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 163. Poynton and Haacke, 1993, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 36: 1–16, described a specimen from Angola that they regarded as intermediate between Phrynobatrachus gutturosus and Phrynobatrachus rungwensis. Malawi material allocated to Phrynobatrachus gutturosus by Poynton, 1964, Senckenb. Biol., 45: 210, and by Stewart, 1967, Amph. Malawi: 96, is Phrynobatrachus stewartae. See Schiøtz, 1963, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 125: 38–39. Reviewed by Guibé and Lamotte, 1963, Mem. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, 66: 601–627, and Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 151–154. Rödel, 2000, Herpetofauna W. Afr., 1: 161–164, provided an account. Nago, Grell, Sinsin, and Rödel, 2006, Salamandra, 42: 93–108, provided a record for Benin. Schiøtz, 1963, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 125: 38–39, provided records for Nigeria. Frétey, 2008, Alytes, 25: 99–17, summarized the literature. In species group B of Zimkus, Rödel, and Hillers, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 883–900, who noted an unnamed species confounded with this species. Rödel and Glos, 2019, Zoosyst. Evol., 95: 24, reported this species from the Krahn-Bassa Proposed Protected Area in southeastern Liberia and the Foya Proposed Protected Area in western Liberia, and commented on identification and habitat preference. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 302–303, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map (not including the questionable record from eastern Dem. Rep. Congo), noting that this taxon is a species complex. In the Phrynobatrachus calcaratus group of Goutte, Reyes-Velasco, and Boissinot, 2019, ZooKeys, 824: 53–70. Kanga, Kouamé, Zogbass, Gongomin, Agoh, Kouamé, Konan, Adepo-Gourène, Gourène, and Rödel, 2021, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 15: 71–107, commented on this species being a complex of cryptic lineages, range, and habitat on the Ivory Coast side of Mont Nimba. Segniagbeto, Ohler, Rödel, Luiselli, and Dubois, 2024, Zoosystema, 46: 652, provided a brief account for Togo, discussing habitat, distribution, conservation status, and identification.

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