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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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Amietia chapini (Noble, 1924)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pyxicephalidae > Subfamily: Cacosterninae > Genus: Amietia > Species: Amietia chapini

Rana chapini Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 214. Holotype: AMNH 11260, by original designation. Type locality: "1° N., 26° 40′ E. . . . . Batama", northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo.

Rana (Rana) chapini — De Witte, 1930, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 19: 258.

Rana fuscigula chapini — Loveridge, 1933, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 74: 361.

Rana angolensis chapini — Laurent, 1972, Explor. Parc Natl. Virunga, Ser. 2, 22: 90.

Rana amieti Laurent, 1976, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 90: 528. Holotype: MRAC 75.43.B.1, by original designation. Type locality: "Lubile, 700 m, terr. de Panigi, Maniema [Forest], Zaïre". Provisional synonymy by Channing, Dehling, Lötters, and Ernst, 2016, Zootaxa, 4155: 21.

Rana (Rana) amieti — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42.

Rana (Afrana) amieti — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 334.

Afrana amieti — Visser and Channing, 1997, J. Afr. Zool., 111: 192, by implication.

Amietia amieti — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 366.

Amietia chapini — Channing, Dehling, Lötters, and Ernst, 2016, Zootaxa, 4155: 21. Provisional arrangement.

Common Names

Chapin's River Frog (Channing, Dehling, Lötters, and Ernst, 2016, Zootaxa, 4155: 21).

Chapin's Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 250).

Pangi Territory Frog (Amietia amieti [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).

Distribution

Seemingly in isolated populations from Northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo (Batama, Orientale Province), to east-central Dem. Rep. Congo (region of Lubile, Sud Kivu), and southwestern Dem. Rep. Congo (Tanganyika, Haut-Katanga, and Lualaba provinces between 600–1,500 m elevation) into northwestern Zambia (Hillwood Farm).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Zambia

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Amietia angolensis by Channing, Dehling, Lötters, and Ernst, 2016, Zootaxa, 4155: 21, where it had been placed by Laurent, 1972, Explor. Parc Natl. Virunga, Ser. 2, 22: 90 (and previously with Amietia fuscigula by De Witte, 1941, Explor. Parc Natl. Albert, Miss. G.F. de Witte (1933–1935), 33: 41). That synonymy doubted byPoynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 132-134. See account by Channing, Dehling, Lötters, and Ernst, 2016, Zootaxa, 4155: 21–24. See comment under Amietia angolensis for access to older literature that may address this species under the older umbrella name. See Bittencourt-Silva, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (2: e181): 12, for comment on population in western Zambia and the first registry for the country. Mali, Banda, Chifundera, Badjedjea, Sebe, Lokasola, Ewango, Tungaluna, and Akaibe, 2019, Am. J. Zool., 2: 38–43, reported the species from the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 352–353, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.

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