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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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Strongylopus fasciatus (Smith, 1849)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pyxicephalidae > Subfamily: Cacosterninae > Genus: Strongylopus > Species: Strongylopus fasciatus

Rana fasciata Smith, 1849, Illust. Zool. S. Afr., 3 (Part 28): pl. 78, fig. 1. Type(s): BMNH, including BMNH 1947.2.2.61 (originally 1845.5.25.20) by museum records, which has some bearing on the subsequent nomenclatural actions so this requires investigation (DRF). BMNH 1858.11.25.127 designated neotype for Rana fasciata Burchell, 1824, by Parker and Ride, 1962, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 19: 290–292; this neotype regarded as lectotype of Rana fasciata Smith, 1849, by Opinion 713, Anonymous, 1964, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 21: 352–354 (see comment) and Opinion 1920 (Anonymous, 1999, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 56: 94–95). Type locality: "widely spread over Southern Africa"; given as Cape of Good Hope, Rep. South Africa by XXX; Greig, Boycott, and De Villiers, 1979, Ann. Cape Prov. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), 13: 27, noted that locality data associated with the BMNH specimens were simply "Africa". See discussion by Lambiris, 1988, Lammergeyer, 39: 101. Placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology by Opinion 713, Anonymous, 1964, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 21: 352.

Rana fasciata fasciata — Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 50: 197, by implication.

Strongylopus fasciatus — Van Dijk, 1966, Ann. Natal Mus., 18: 259; Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 353.

Strongylopus fasciatus fasciatus — Van Dijk, 1977, Zool. Afr., 12: 178; Channing, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 334.

Rana (Stronglylopus) fasciata — Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233, by implication; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 50; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 334.

English Names

Striped Grass Frog (Hewitt, 1937, Guide Vert. Fauna E. Cape Province, Rept. Amph. Fishes: 95; Broadley, 1971, Puku, 6: 113; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 140).

Striped Rana (Wager, 1965, Frogs S. Afr.: 153; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 140).

Long-toed Frog (Rose, 1950, Rep. Amph. S. Afr.: 39; Rose, 1962, Rep. Amph. S. Afr., Ed. 2: 40).

Striped Stream Frog (Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 140; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 422; Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 353; Boycott, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 309).

Long-toed Grass Frog (Pienaar, 1963, Koedoe, 6: 79).

Long-toed Frog (Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 140).

Striped Long-toed Frog (Lambiris, 1990 "1989", Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10: 98).

Striped Frog (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 15; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).

Tanganyika Striped Grass Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 122).

Distribution

Southern South Africa along the southern and east coast to Zimbabwe, western Mozambique, and southern Zambia, in grasslands; expected in Lesotho and eastern-most Botswana.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Likely/Controversially Present: Botswana, Lesotho

Comment

See Opinion 713, Anonymous, 1964, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 21: 352–354, in which uses of Rana fasciata (including uses by Tschudi, 1838, and Duméril and Bibron, 1843) were suppressed for the purposes of homonymy and priority under the plenary powers of the Commission of Zoological Nomenclature. In addition, Rana fasciata Smith, 1849, was placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology. Subspecies reviewed by Poynton, 1964, Senckenb. Biol., 45: 203–205. See also Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 137–139, and Lambiris, 1988, Lammergeyer, 39: 100–102. See accounts by Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 353, Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 92, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 422–423. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 349–350, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Phaka, Netherlands, Kruger, and Du Preez, 2017, Bilingual Field Guide Frogs Zululand: 69, provided a photograph, Zululand regional map, and a brief account of life history and identification. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 360–361, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Channing, Schmitz, Zancolli, Conradie, and Rödel, 2022, Rev. Suisse Zool., 129: 243–281, reported on molecular phylogenetics, morphology, distribution, and advertisement call.

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