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* = "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
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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"
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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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Phrynobatrachus maculiventris Guibé and Lamotte, 1958

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

Cardioglossa liberiensis Barbour and Loveridge, 1927, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 10: 16. Holotype: MCZ 12034, by original designation. Type locality: "Peahtah and vicinity of St. Paul's River, Liberia". Noted to be a Phrynobatrachus by Morère in J.-L. Amiet In Grandison, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 17; synonymy with Phrynobatrachus fraterculus by Blackburn, 2005, Afr. J. Herpetol., 54: 171. Synonymy with Phrynobatrachus maculiventris by Rödel, Sandberger-Loua, Loua, Doumbia, and Hillers, 2009, Afr. J. Herpetol., 58: 15. Junior secondary homonym of Phrynobatrachus liberiensis Barbour and Loveridge, 1927.

Schoutedenella liberiensis — De Witte, 1934, Ann. Mus. R. Congo Belge, Tervuren, Zool., 3: 182.

Phrynobatrachus maculiventris Guibé and Lamotte, 1958, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 30: 255. Syntypes: MNHNP 1958.346-347, by original designation. Type locality: "mare en forêt, près Doromou (Guinée française)".

Phrynobatrachus liberiensis —Morère IN J.-L. Amiet In Grandison, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 17, by implication.

English Names

Liberia Long-fingered Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 37 [as Cardioglossa liberiensis]).

Spotted-belly Puddle Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 302).

Distribution

Known only from few localities in southeastern Guinea and adjacent western Ivory Coast near the Liberia border as well as one locality (Peahtah) in eastern Liberia, all in the Mont Nimba region.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia

Comment

Removed from the synonym of Phrynobatrachus fraterculus by Rödel, Sandberger-Loua, Loua, Doumbia, and Hillers, 2009, Afr. J. Herpetol., 58: 15-27, where it had been placed by Guibé and Lamotte, 1963, Mem. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, 66: 616. In species group B of Zimkus, Rödel, and Hillers, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 55: 883-900. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 279, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 302–303, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.

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