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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
	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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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 vestitus Laurent, 1972

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

Xenopus vestitus Laurent, 1972, Explor. Parc Natl. Virunga, Ser. 2, 22: 9. Type(s): Not stated, but MRAC 118287 recorded as holotype by Lang, 1990, Doc. Trav., Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg., 59: 10. Type locality: "Musugereza, près de Rutshuru, +/- 1.250 m, Kivu, [Dem. Rep.] Congo".

Xenopus kigesiensis Tinsley, 1973, J. Zool., London, 169: 3. Holotype: BMNH 1972.799, by original designation. Type locality: "Lake Mutanda, Uganda". Synonymy by Tinsley, 1975, J. Zool., London, 175: 474.

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

Common Names

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

Jacketed Clawed Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 244).

Distribution

Highland swamps and lakes bordering the Western Rift in southwestern Uganda, Rwanda, and eastern Dem. Rep. Congo south of Lake Edward, and rivers draining the Virunga volcanoes.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Rwanda, Uganda

Comment

Record suggesting southward extension to "Musosa, Tanganyika District, Zaire [= Dem. Rep. Congo]" (Tinsley, 1975, J. Zool., London, 175: 488) considered doubtful by Tinsley, Kobel, and Fischberg, 1979, J. Zool., London, 188: 89). Chromosome number (2n = 72) tetraploid with respect to Xenopus laevis (see Tymowska, Fischberg, and Tinsley, 1977, Cytogenet. Cell Genet., 19: 346). Interactions with three sympatric Xenopus species include recent invasion of lakes in southwestern Uganda by the related Xenopus vestitus and Xenopus wittei and their replacement of previous Xenopus laevis bunyoniensis populations (Tinsley, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 145). Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 244–245, provided an account. See comment under Xenopus lenduensis. In the Xenopus amieti group of Evans, Carter, Greenbaum, Gvoždík, Kelley, McLaughlin, Pauwels, Portik, Stanley, Tinsley, Tobias, and Blackburn, 2015, PLoS One, 10(12): e0142823: 29. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 46–47, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Dehling and Sinsch, 2023, Diversity, 15 (512): 1–81, discussed the range, identification, natural history, advertisement call, and conservation status in Rwanda. Behangana, Byaruhanga, Magala, Katumba, Kagurusi, Dendi, and Luiselli, 2023, Wetlands, 43(88): 1–13, reported on presence in the wetlands of southwestern Uganda.

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