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* = "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.
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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 delalandii (Tschudi, 1838)

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

Pyxicephalus Delalandii Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 46. Syntypes: MNHNP 721, 4521, and 4529 (5 specimens, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 40) and RMNH 2260-2261, according to Gassó Miracle, van den Hoek Ostende, and Arntzen, 2007, Zootaxa, 1482: 53-54. Type locality: "Promontorium Bonae Spei", Rep. South Africa.

Bombinator Delalandii Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 84. Name proposed as an objective synonym of Pyxicephalus delalandii to reference jar label names of syntypes in the RMNH and MNHNP.

Pyxicephalus delalandii — Ahl, 1924, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 11: 6 (Based on specimens of Tomopterna cryptotis according to Lanza, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 168).

Tomopterna Delalandii — Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 388.

Tomopterna delalandii — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 132.

Rana delalandii — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 31.

Rana delalandei — Boettger, 1893, Zool. Anz., 16: 130. Based on specimens of Tomopterna cryptotis according to Lanza, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 168). Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Rana (Tomopterna) delalandii — Boulenger, 1918, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 43: 113, 119; Procter, 1920, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1920: 412; Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233; by implication.

Rana (Pyxicephalus) delalandii — Parker, 1932, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1932: 365; Scortecci, 1933, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 72: 21(based on specimens of Tomopterna cryptotis according to Lanza, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 168); Parker, 1936, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 10, 18: 596.

Rana (Pyxicephalus) delalandi — Scortecci, 1933, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 72: 21. Likely ased on specimens of Tomopterna elegans from Somalia.

Rana delalandii delalandii — Loveridge, 1936, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 22: 89. Based on specimens of Tomopterna cryptotis according to Lanza, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 168.

Pyxicephalus delalandii — FitzSimons, 1946, Ann. Transvaal Mus., 20: 367.

Tomopterna (Tomopterna) delalandii — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 56.

Common Names

Delalande's Frog (Hewitt, 1937, Guide Vert. Fauna E. Cape Province, Rept. Amph. Fishes: 91; Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 5; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 118).

Pyxie (Rose, 1950, Rep. Amph. S. Afr.: 23).

Striped Pyxie (Wager, 1965, Frogs S. Afr.: 134).

Delalande's Pyxie (Broadley, 1971, Puku, 6: 112).

Delalande's Burrowing Bullfrog (Broadley, 1973, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 10: 23).

Delalande's Dwarf Bullfrog (Broadley, 1974, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 12: 31).

Delalande's Burrowing Frog (Broadley, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 33; Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 15).

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

Cape Sand Frog (Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 5; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 118; Channing, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 322-323; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 438).

African Bullfrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 110).

Delalande's Sand Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 378).

Distribution

Namaqualand, southward in sandy areas through the Western Cape, and eastwards along the coast to Cape St. Francis, Rep. South Africa; possibly into adjacent Namibia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: South Africa

Endemic: South Africa

Comment

See Channing and Bogart, 1996, S. Afr. J. Zool., 31: 80-85, for distribution map. Polyploid specimens reported by Bogart and Tandy, 1976, Science, 193: 334-335, are now recognized as Tomopterna tandyi. Channing, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 322-323, Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 114-116, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 438-439, provided accounts. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 357–358, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Du Preez and Carruthers, 2017, Frogs S. Afr., Compl. Guide: 466–467, provided an account, including a polygon range map, photograph, identification features, adult and larval morphology, habitat, and call. See Wilson and Channing, 2019, Zootaxa, 4609: 225–246, who provided a range map. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 378–379, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Dorse and Dorse, 2023, Field Guide Fynbos Fauna: 50–51, provided a brief account, polygon range map for the Cape Region of South Africa, and photograph.

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