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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
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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 tournieri (Guibé and Lamotte, 1955)

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

Rana (Ptychadena) tournieri Guibé and Lamotte, 1955, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 27: 442. Syntypes: MNHNP 8679, 8680, 8681, 51-193 (mont Nimba); MCZ 26856 (+ 2 duplicates) (Bonthé); MCZ 26690 (Ibanga, Suacoco); MCZ 27720 (Kenema); MCZ 28093 (Yundum); MNHNP 8679 designated lectotype by Perret, 1991, Arch. Sci., Genève, 44: 266. Type locality: "Mont Nimba (Guineé française [=Guinea])"; "Petoru (Sierra Leone)"; "Bonthé (Sierra Leone)"; "Ibanga, Suacoco (Liberia)"; "Kenema (Sierra Leone)"; "Yundum (Gambie)". Restricted to "mont Nimba", Guinea, by lectotype designation.

Ptychadena tournieri — Lamotte, 1958, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 20: 1464; Lamotte, 1967, Bull. Inst. Fondam. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 29: 242; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 56; by implication.

Rana tournieri — Inger, 1968, Explor. Parc Natl. Garamba, Miss. H. de Saeger, 52: 89.

Rana (Ptychadena) tournieri — Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233, by implication.

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

Common Names

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

Tournier's Rocket Frog (Emms, Jambang, Bah, Mankali, Rödel, and Barnett, 2005, Herpetol. Bull., London, 94: 11).

Tornier's Grass Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 332).

Distribution

Southern Senegal into southern Burkina Faso, northern Benin, Togo, and western Ivory Coast; expected in Ghana.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

Likely/Controversially Present: Burkina Faso, Ghana

Comment

See Lamotte, 1967, Bull. Inst. Fondam. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 29: 242; Schiøtz, 1964, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 127: 49; and Perret, 1991, Arch. Sci., Genève, 44: 265-281. Rödel, 2000, Herpetofauna W. Afr., 1: 133-136, provided an account. See discussion by Lamotte and Ohler, 2000, Zoosystema, 22: 569-583. Nago, Grell, Sinsin, and Rödel, 2006, Salamandra, 42: 93-108, provided a record for Benin. Emms, Jambang, Bah, Mankali, Rödel, and Barnett, 2005, Herpetol. Bull., London, 94: 6-16, noted that published records for Gambia were not specific. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 315–316, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 332–333, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Ayoro, Segniagbeto, Hema, Penner, Oueda, Dubois, Rödel, Kabré, and Ohler, 2020, Zoosystema, 42: 547–582, discussed records, identification, and habitat in Burkina Faso. 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. In the Ptychadena bibroni group of Nečas, Mazuch, Czurda, Elmi, Rödel, and Gvoždík, 2025, Afr. J. Herpetol., 73: 236–260.

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