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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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Hildebrandtia Nieden, 1907

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ptychadenidae > Genus: Hildebrandtia

3 species

Hildebrandtia Nieden, 1907, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1907: 229. Type species: Pyxicephalus ornatus Peters, 1878, by subsequent designation of Boulenger, 1918, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 43: 114.

English Names

Ornate Frogs (Broadley, 1973, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 10: 23; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 146; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 99; Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 294; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 300).

Hildebrandt's Burrowing Frogs (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 15).

Distribution

Tropical and subtropical Africa.

Comment

Subfamily Raninae, Tribe Ptychadenini according to Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 55. Subfamily Ptychadeninae according to Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 305–352. Sister-taxon of Lanzarana; together forming the sister-taxon of Ptychadena, according to Clarke, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 285–331, and Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543–583. Regarded as a subgenus of Rana by Boulenger, 1919, Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr., 8: 33–37, and Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 224–284, and subsequently considered a genus with two subgenera, Hildebrandtia and Lanzarana by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 55–56; subsequently considered separate genera by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 316. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 322–323, provided brief accounts, photographs, and range maps for the species.

Contained taxa (3 sp.):

Hildebrandtia macrotympanum (Boulenger, 1912)

Hildebrandtia ornata (Peters, 1878)

Hildebrandtia ornatissima (Barboza du Bocage, 1879)

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