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
	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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Ptychadena subpunctata (Barboza du Bocage, 1866)

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

Rana subpunctata Barboza du Bocage, 1866, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, 1 (1): 54. Nomen nudum.

Rana subpunctata Barboza du Bocage, 1866, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, 1 (1): 73. Holotype: MBL; lost, according to Perret, 1976, Arq. Mus. Bocage, Ser. 2, 6: 20. Type locality: "Duque de Bragança", Angola.

Rana (Ptychadena) katangae De Witte, 1921, Rev. Zool. Afr., 9: 3. Syntypes: MRAC (4 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Lofoï (Katanga)", Dem. Rep. Congo. Synonymy by Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56 (incorrectly attributing the synonymy to Loveridge, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 22); Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 102.

Rana (Ptychadena) subpunctata — De Witte, 1921, Rev. Zool. Afr., 9: 6; Guibé and Lamotte, 1957, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 19: 942; by implication; Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 102; Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233, by implication; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 316.

Rana chobiensis FitzSimons, 1932, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 15: 39. Syntypes: TMP (formerly Vernay-Lang Kalahari Expedition 998), by original designation. Type locality: "Kasane on the Chobe River", Botswana. Synonymy by Loveridge, 1953, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 110: 329; Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 102.

Ptychadena supunctata — Guibé and Lamotte, 1957, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 19: 942; Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 127; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 56; by implication.

Ptychadena subpunctata — Laurent, 1964, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 67: 132; Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 127.

Common Names

African Spotted Frog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 158).

Spot-bellied Ridged Frog (Broadley, 1973, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 10: 23; Broadley, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 34).

Bocage's Grass Frog (Lambiris, 1990 "1989", Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10: 110).

Bocage's Grassland Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).

Spotted Ridged Frog (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 340).

Speckled-bellied Grass Frog (Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 322).

Spotted-belly Grass Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 336).

Distribution

Southern Dem. Rep. Congo, northern Botswana, western Zambia, northeastern Namibia, northwestern Zimbabwe, and Angola excepting the northeast and southwest.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola, Botswana, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Comment

Reviewed by Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 102–104, and Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 127–128. See Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 143–144, Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 340–341, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 322–323, for accounts of southern populations. Auerbach, 1987, Amph. Rept. Botswana: 48, provided a summary account and grid map for Botswana. Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 136–137, also provided an account. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 315, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Du Preez and Carruthers, 2017, Frogs S. Afr., Compl. Guide: 344–345, provided an account, including a polygon range map for southern Africa, photograph, identification features, adult and larval morphology, habitat, and call. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 139–140, provided a map for Angola and brief discussion of the literature. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 336–337, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Conradie, Keates, Verburgt, Baptista, and Harvey, 2023, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 17: 46, provided an account and dot map of the species in Angola.

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