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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 poweri Hewitt, 1927

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

Xenopus poweri Hewitt, 1927, Rec. Albany Mus., 3: 413. Holotype: MMK. Type locality: "the Victoria Falls", Zambia and Zimbabwe. Synonymy with Xenopus laevis by Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 8; Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 32; with Xenopus laevis petersii by Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 26: 508-510.

Xenopus laevis poweri — Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 8; Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 32. Distinctiveness of Xenopus laevis poweri from Xenopus laevis petersi affirmed by Mertens, 1971, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 529: 7, rejecting the earlier view of Parker, 1936, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 10, 18: 597, that they were synonyms.

Xenopus laevis sudanensis Perret, 1966, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 93: 301. Holotype: MHNG 1017.74, by original designation. Type locality: "Ngaoundéré, Adamaoua", Cameroon. Provisional synonymy by Furman, Bewick, Harrison, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Chifundera, and Evans, 2015, Mol. Ecol., 24: 921.

Xenopus sudanensis — Jacobsen, 2009, Afr. Herp News, 47: 6. Undiscussed arrangement.

Xenopus poweri — Furman, Bewick, Harrison, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Chifundera, and Evans, 2015, Mol. Ecol., 24: 909.

English Names

Power's Clawed Frog (Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 64).

Distribution

Central and eastern Nigeria to eastern Cameroon and western Central Africa Republic; northernmost Dem. Rep. Congo through Zambia to western Zimbabwe, eastern and southeastern Angola, Okovango Region of Namibia, and northern Botswana.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Namibia, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Comment

Jacobsen, 2009, Afr. Herp News, 47: 2–20, reported this species (as Xenopus sudanensis) from east-north-central Central African Republic. Furman, Bewick, Harrison, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Chifundera, and Evans, 2015, Mol. Ecol., 24: 909–925, provided a molecular study of the various species of Xenopus, removed this name from the synonymy of Xenopus petersii, reassigned the West Africa populations of nominal Xenopus laevis to this species. 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. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 64–65, provided a map for Angola and discussed the literature. See Bittencourt-Silva, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (2: e181): 10, for comment on population in western Zambia. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 48–49, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Conradie, Keates, Verburgt, Baptista, and Harvey, 2023, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 17: 42, provided an account and dot map of the species in Angola.

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