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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 uzungwensis (Loveridge, 1932)

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

Rana mascareniensis uzungwensis Loveridge, 1932, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 72: 384. Holotype: MCZ 16626, by original designation. Type locality: "Dabaga, Uzungwe Mountains, Tanganyika Territory [=Tanzania]".

Ptychadena macrocephala Laurent, 1952, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 46: 22. Holotype: MRAC unnumbered, by original designation. Type locality: "Haute Lubitshako, 1. 900-2. 000 m, Terr. de Fizi, Kivu", Dem. Rep. Congo. Synonymy by Laurent, 1954, Ann. Mus. R. Congo Belge, Tervuren, Zool., 34: 9.

Ptychadena uzungwensis — Laurent, 1954, Ann. Mus. R. Congo Belge, Tervuren, Zool., 34: 9.

Ptychadena uzungwensis — Laurent, 1954, Ann. Mus. R. Congo Belge, Tervuren, Zool., 34: 9. Guibé and Lamotte, 1957, Bull. Inst. Franç. Afr. Noire, Ser. A, 19: 942; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 56; by implication.

Rana (Ptychadena) uzungwensis — 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: 117; Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233; by implication.

Rana (Ptychadena) uzungwensis — Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 117.

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

English Names

Uzungwe Ridged Frog (Stewart and Wilson, 1966, Ann. Natal Mus., 18: 301; Broadley, 1973, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 10: 23).

Uzungwe Grass Frog (Lambiris, 1990 "1989", Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10: 116).

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

Udzungwa Ridged Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 129; Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 344-345; Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 317).

Udzungwa Grass Frog (Minter, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 296; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 326).

Distribution

Medium to high altitude grassland on the East African plateau: Rwanda, Burundi, southern Dem. Rep. Congo, western Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to Mozambique uplands and eastern Angola; Gabon (see comment).

Comment

Account by Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 117-123. See also Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 131, Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 151, and accounts by Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 344-345, Minter, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 296, and and Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 317-318. M. Cunningham (personal commun.) suggests on the basis of specimen examination that the two South African specimens are misidentified Ptychadena porosissima. This reidentification is apparently reflected in the account and distribution map in Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 326-327, which shows the southern extent of the range as being in south-central Zimbabwe, well north of South Africa. Mercurio, 2011, Amph. Malawi: 274-275, provided an account for Malawi. Müller and Larson, 2014, J. Herpetol., 48: 284-290, reported on larval morphology from the southern Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. Harper, Measey, Patrick, Menegon, and Vonesh, 2010, Field Guide Amph. E. Arc Mts. Tanzania and Kenya: 272–273, provided a brief account and photograph. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 142–143, provided a map for Angola and brief discussion of the literature. Zimkus and Larson, 2013, Salamandra, 49: 159, provided a record from Batéké Plateau National Park, Gabon. Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 38, summarized the literature for Gabon, although these records appear to be far removed from the rest of the records in Africa and require confirmation (DRF). Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 336–337, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.

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