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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 tuberculosa (Boulenger, 1882)

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

Pyxicephalus rugosus Günther, 1865 "1864", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 479. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens), these being BMNH 1947.2.19.10–11 according to museum records. Type locality: "Pungo Andongo", Angola, and "W. Africa"; specimens noted from "W. Africa" by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 30, were not considered types by him. Preoccupied by Rana rugosa Temminck and Schlegel, 1838.

Rana tuberculosa Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 30. Replacement name for Pyxicephalus rugosus Günther, 1864.

Rana pulchra Boulenger, 1896, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 18: 468. Holotype: BMNH, by original designation, this being BMNH 1947.2.1.36 (originally 1896.5.14.21) by museum records. Type locality: "Lake Tanganyika". Synonymy by Loveridge, 1957, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 117: 345 (with Rana tuberculosa); Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 36.

Rana (Tomopterna) signata Ahl, 1927 "1925", Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1925: 43. Syntypes: ZMB (2 specimens), unnumbered in original publication. Type locality: "Huilla", Angola. Secondary homonym of Polypedates signata Günther, 1872 (= Rana signata). Synonymy by Laurent, 1954, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 23: 72.

Rana (Tomopterna) cacondana Ahl, 1927 "1925", Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1925: 44. Holotype: ZMB 15477, by museum records; unnumbered in original publication. Type locality: "Caconda", Angola. Synonymy by Laurent, 1954, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 23: 72.

Rana (Tomopterna) pulchra — De Witte, 1930, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 19: 263.

Pyxicephalus tuberculosus — Parker, 1936, Novit. Zool., 40: 142. Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 100.

Rana (Tomopterna) tuberculosa — Monard, 1937 "1936", Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 62: 44.

Tomopterna caconda — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 142.

Tomopterna rugosa — Laurent, 1954, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 23: 72.

Tomopterna tuberculosa — Laurent, 1964, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 67: 132. Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 130–131; Vences, Glaw, Kosuch, Das, and Veith, 2000, Lourenço and Goodman (eds.), Diversité et Endéémisme à Madagascar: 232.

Rana (Tomopterna) tuberculosa — Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233, by implication.

Tomopterna (Tomopterna) tuberculosa — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 57.

English Names

Warty Frog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 158).

Beaded Pyxie (Broadley, 1971, Puku, 6: 113; Lambiris, 1990 "1989", Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10: 89).

Beaded Burrowing Frog (Broadley, 1973, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 10: 23).

Beaded Dwarf Bullfrog (Broadley, 1974, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 12: 31).

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

Rough Sand Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 333; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2017, Frogs S. Afr., Compl. Guide: 476).

Tuberculate Sand Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 333 [alternative name]).

Bearded Pyxie (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 333 [alternative name]).

Bearded Sand Frog (Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 448).

Distribution

Western and central Angola and northwestern Namibia to Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia to Zimbabwe; possible in western Mozambique and southern Dem. Rep. Congo.

Comment

See Laurent, 1964, Publ. Cult. Companhia Diamantes Angola, 67: 133, for synonymy. See accounts by Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 130–131, Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 333–334, Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 124–125, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 448–449. See also (as Rana tuberculosa) Schmidt and Inger, 1959, Explor. Parc Natl. Upemba, Miss. G.F. de Witte, 56: 36–38. Dawood, Channing, and Bogart, 2002, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 22: 407–413, reported two unnamed species masquerading under this name from Beira, Mozambique, and Shankara, Namibia. The Shankara specimen was subsequently confirmed as Tomopterna cryptotis by Channing and Du Preez, 2020, Alytes, 37: 1–21. Mercurio, 2011, Amph. Malawi: 296–297, provided an account for Malawi. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 155–156, 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.: 382–383, provided a brief account, 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.

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