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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
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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
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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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Dactylethrinae Hogg, 1838

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pipidae > Subfamily: Dactylethrinae

34 species

Dactylethridae Hogg, 1838, Ann. Nat. Hist., London, 1: 152. Type genus: Dactylethra Cuvier, 1829. See comment.

Astrodactylidae Hogg, 1839, Mag. Nat. Hist., N.S., 3: 152. Type genus: Astrodactylus Hogg, 1838 (= Asterodactylus Wagler, 1827). Synonymy with Pipidae by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 458.

Xenopoda Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 33. Type genus: Xenopus Wagler, 1827.

Dactylethrina — Bonaparte, 1850, Conspect. Syst. Herpetol. Amph.: 1 p.

Dactylethridae — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: xvii.

Aglossa Leunis, 1860, Synops. Drei Naturr., Zool., Ed. 2: 335. Unavailable unranked taxon (below Family) to contain Pipa and Xenopus.

Astrodactylae — Duméril, 1863, Mem. Soc. Imp. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 9: 300.

Dactyletridae — Hoffmann, 1878, in Bronn (ed.), Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, 6(2): 598. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Dactylethrae — Peters, 1882, Naturwiss. Reise Mossambique, Zool. 3: 179.

Dactylethrida — Knauer, 1878, Naturgesch. Lurche: 103.

Xenopidae — Cope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 248.

Aglossidae Sollas, 1906, Zool. Rec., 42: 37.

Xenopodidae — Bolkay, 1919, Glasn. Zemaljskog Muz. Bosni Hercegov., 31: 348.

Hymenochiridae Bolkay, 1919, Glasn. Zemaljskog Muz. Bosni Hercegov., 31: 348. Type genus: Hymenochirus Boulenger, 1896.

Xenopodinae — Metcalf, 1923, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 120: 391.

Xenopinae — Noble, 1931, Biol. Amph.: 489; Van Dijk, 1966, Ann. Natal Mus., 18: 248.

Siluraninae Cannatella and Trueb, 1988, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 94: 32. Type genus: Silurana Gray, 1864.

Xenopodinomorpha Báez and Púgener, 2003, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 139: 454. Unavailable unranked taxon, coined within the family-group to include various fossil taxa and Xenopodinae (= Dactylethrinae).

Hymenochirini — Bewick, Chain, Heled, and Evans, 2012, Syst. Biol., 61: 913–926. Treatment as a tribe for Hymenochirus + Pseudhymenochirus.

Dactylethrini — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 129. Tribe.

Hymenochirini — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 129. Tribe.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

South of the Sahara in Africa.

Comment

See comment under Pipidae for access to literature.

Contained taxa (34 sp.):

Hymenochirus Boulenger, 1896 (4 sp.)

Pseudhymenochirus Chabanaud, 1920 (1 sp.)

Xenopus Wagler, 1827 (29 sp.)

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