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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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Ptychadena retropunctata (Angel, 1949)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ptychadenidae > Genus: Ptychadena > Species: Ptychadena retropunctata

Rana (Ptychadena) retropunctata Angel, 1949, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 21: 509. Syntypes: MNHNP 225–228, 9673, according to XXX. Type locality: "Ziéla (mare en savane-prarie, en pleine saison des pluies)", Mt. Nimba, Guinea.

Rana (Ptychadena) retropunctata — Guibé and Lamotte, 1957, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 19: 958; Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233; by implication.

Ptychadena retropunctata — Guibé and Lamotte, 1957, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 19: 942; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 56; by implication.

Ptychadena (Ptychadena) retropunctata — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 316.

Common Names

Nimba Grass Frog ( Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 330).

Distribution

Southeastern Senegal, as well as in the Loma Mountains, Sierra Leone, and lower mountain areas in northwestern and southeastern areas in Guinea and neighboring Liberia, 700 to 800 m elevation; Mont Nimba region of Ivory Coast.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone

Comment

See Schiøtz, 1964, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 127: 23. Removed from the synonymy of Rana maccarthyensis by Guibé and Lamotte, 1957, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 19: 942, where it had been placed by Loveridge, 1955, Rev. Suisse Zool., 62: 130. Monasterio, Álvarez, Trape, and Rödel, 2016, Herpetol. Notes, 9: 1–6, provided a record from Dindefelo Natural Community Reserve, southeastern Senegal. Rödel, 2000, Herpetofauna W. Afr., 1: 140–141, provided an account. See brief comments by Rödel, Bangoura, and Böhme, 2004, Herpetozoa, Wien, 17: 105–106, regarding range and natural history. Hillers, Bangoura, Loua, and Rödel, 2024, in Wright, H.E. et al. (eds.), Rapid Biol. Assess. Boké Pref., NW Guinea: 134, commented on presence and habitat of specimens from the Boké Region, northwestern Guinea. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 330–331, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Kanga, Kouamé, Zogbass, Gongomin, Agoh, Kouamé, Konan, Adepo-Gourène, Gourène, and Rödel, 2021, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 15: 71–107, commented on conservation status, identification, range, and habitat on the Ivory Coast side of Mont Nimba. Hillers, Bangoura, Loua, and Rödel, 2024, in Wright, H.E. et al. (eds.), Rapid Biol. Assess. Boké Pref., NW Guinea: 131–136, commented on habitat of specimens from the Boké Region, northwestern Guinea. Not assigned to species group by Nečas, Mazuch, Czurda, Elmi, Rödel, and Gvoždík, 2025, Afr. J. Herpetol., 73: 236–260, on the basis of lack of molecular evidence, although they suggested a relationship to Ptychadena schillukorum and/or trinodis on the basis of morphology.

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