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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 ahli (Deckert, 1938)

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

Arthroleptella ahli Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 168. Holotype: ZMB 15, by original designation, now lost, according to Channing and Becker, 2019, Zootaxa, 4688: 549, who designated SMF 10710 (now deposited in the NMN) neotype. Type locality: "Lichtenstein (Süd Afrika)"; corrected to "farm Lichtenstein, Namibia" by Channing and Becker, 2019, Zootaxa, 4688: 549. Neotype is from "Klein Windhoek, Namibia 22.5722°S, 17.1283°E". Formerly placed in the synonymy of Tomopterna cryptotis by Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 97.

Tomopterna damarensis Dawood and Channing, 2002, Afr. J. Herpetol., 51: 130. Holotype: TMP 83913, by original designation. Type locality: "pools in a riverbed . . . . Khorixas, northern Namibia (20° 22′ S, 14° 58′ E)". Synonymy by Channing and Becker, 2019, Zootaxa, 4688: 549.

Common Names

Damaraland Sand Frog (Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 436, as Tomopterna damarensis).

Damara Sand Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 378, as Tomopterna damarensis).

Distribution

Very southwestern Angola to western. southern, and northern Namibia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola, Namibia

Comment

See comment under Tomopterna. See account by Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 436-437. Dawood and Channing, 2002, Afr. J. Herpetol., 51: 129–134, reported on morphology, molecular markers, and advertisement call, as Tomopterna damarensis. Du Preez and Carruthers, 2017, Frogs S. Afr., Compl. Guide: 464–465, provided an account (as Tomopterna damarensis), including a polygon range map, photograph, identification features, adult morphology, habitat, and call. See Ceríaco, de Sá, Bandeira, Valério, Stanley, Kuhn, Marques, Vindum, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2016, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 63: 15–61, for records of specimens (as Tomopterna damarensis) from Namibe Province, southwestern Angola. Heinicke, Ceríaco, Moore, Bauer, and Blackburn, 2017, Salamandra, 53: 461–465, reported on the distribution and phylogenetics of the species. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 154, provided a map for Angola and brief discussion of the literature. See Wilson and Channing, 2019, Zootaxa, 4609: 225–246, who provided a range map. Butler, Ceríaco, Marques, Bandeira, Júlio, Heinicke, and Bauer, 2019, Herpetol. Rev., 50: 225–240, reported on a collection from Huila Province, southwestern Angola. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 378–379, provided a brief account (as Tomopterna damarensis), photograph, and range map. Lobón-Rovira, Vaz Pinto, Becker, Tolley, Measey, Bennet, Boon, de Sá, and Conradie, 2022, Check List, 18: 289–321, reported the species from Iona National Park, southwestern Angola, and characterized its habitat. Marques, Parrinha, Lopes-Lima, Tiutenko, Bauer, and Ceríaco, 2024, ZooKeys, 1201: 183, briefly discussed localities in the Serra da Neve inselberg region, Namibia Province, southwestern Angola.

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