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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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Tomopterna adiastola Channing and Du Preez, 2020

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pyxicephalidae > Subfamily: Cacosterninae > Genus: Tomopterna > Species: Tomopterna adiastola

Tomopterna adiastola Channing and Du Preez, 2020, Alytes, 37: 11. Holotype: SAIAB 105333, by original designation. Type locality: "Cleveland Nature Reserve, Phalaborwa, Limpopo Province, South Africa (23.9824 S, 31.1885 E)". Zoobank publication registration: FE2D3B62-04EC-4175-8CCF-BCF790D6CBAC

Common Names

Striped Pyxie (As Tomopterna cryptotis: Pienaar, 1963, Koedoe, 6: 79; Wager, 1965, Frogs S. Afr.: 134; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 120; Lambiris, 1990 "1989", Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10: 83).

Striped Burrowing Frog (Pienaar, 1963, Koedoe, 6: 79; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 120).

Common Burrowing Frog (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 15).

Tremolo Sand Frog (As Tomopterna cryptotis: Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 5; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 120; Channing, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 321-322).

Striped Sand Frog (As Tomopterna cryptotis: Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 5).

Tremolo Sand Frog (As Tomopterna cryptotis: Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 434).

Distribution

North-central Namibia to northern Botswana, southern Zimbabwe, and southern Mozambique to Lesotho and the western part of the Western Cape Province, Rep. South Africa.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe

Comment

Formerly confused with Tomopterna cryptotis, although genetically distant from that species, according to the original publication, which treated morphology, advertisement call, and genetic markers, and which noted that larval morphology was described (as Tomopterna cryptotis) by Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 356–357. See Carruthers and Carruthers, 1979, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 20: 3-5, for distribution records (as Tomopterna cryptotis). Bates and Haacke, 2003, Navors. Nas. Mus. Bloemfontein, 19: 124-125, discussed the species (as Tomopterna cryptotis) in Lesotho. Channing, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 321-322, provided an account (as Tomopterna cryptotis) for South Africa. Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 434-435, provided an account for southern Africa (as Tomopterna cryptotis). Phaka, Netherlands, Kruger, and Du Preez, 2017, Bilingual Field Guide Frogs Zululand: 71, provided (as Tomopterna cryptotis) a photograph, Zululand regional map, and a brief account of life history and identification. Buruwate and Lloyd-Jones, 2024, J. E. Afr. Nat. Hist., 113: 1–18, provided a record from the Niassa Special Reserve, northern Mozambique.

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