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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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Xenopus gilli Rose and Hewitt, 1927

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pipidae > Subfamily: Dactylethrinae > Genus: Xenopus > Species: Xenopus gilli

Xenopus gilli Rose and Hewitt, 1927, Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr., 14: 343. Holotype: AMG number not stated; AMG 5112 by museum records, now PEM A1523 according to Conradie, Branch, and Watson, 2015, Zootaxa, 3936: 66, who discussed difficulties surrounding determination of types. Type locality: "Cape Flats .... near Cape Town", Rep. South Africa, but specified as near Sylvermyn River.

Xenopus (Xenopus) gilli — Kobel, Barandun, and Thiebaud, 1998, Herpetol. J., 8: 13.

Common Names

Cape Platanna (Wager, 1965, Frogs S. Afr.: 97; Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 3; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 48; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 330).

Cape Clawed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 97).

Gill's Clawed Frog (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 14; Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 48).

Gill's Clawed Toad (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 14).

Gill's Platanna (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 14; Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 241).

Gill's Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 241 [alternative name).

Distribution

Blackwater ponds on the Cape Flats and Cape Peninsula together with isolated inland localities on the southwestern Western Cape, Rep. South Africa, 10–140 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: South Africa

Endemic: South Africa

Comment

Kobel, du Pasquier, and Tinsley, 1981, J. Zool., London, 194: 317–322, demonstrated natural hybridization and gene introgression between this species and Xenopus laevis (both with 2n = 36 chromosomes). Evans, Morales, Picker, Kelley, and Melnick, 1997, Mol. Ecol., 6: 333-343, discussed historical structure within this nominal species. See accounts by Picker, 1988, in Branch (ed.), South Afr. Red Data Book, Amph. Rept.: 25-27, Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 241-243, De Villiers, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 260-263, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 330. Rau, 1978, Ann. S. Afr. Mus., 76: 248, noted the range. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 474. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 295, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Du Preez and Carruthers, 2017, Frogs S. Afr., Compl. Guide: 352–353, provided an account, including a polygon range map, photograph, identification features, adult and larval morphology, habitat, and call. In the Xenopus laevis group of Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015, PLoS One, 10(12): e0142823: 29. Dorse and Dorse, 2023, Field Guide Fynbos Fauna: 38–39, provided a brief account, polygon range map, and photograph.

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