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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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Aubria Boulenger, 1917

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pyxicephalidae > Subfamily: Pyxicephalinae > Genus: Aubria

2 species

Aubria Boulenger, 1917, C. R. Hebd. Séances Acad. Sci., Paris, 165: 988. Type species: Rana subsigillata Duméril, 1856, by monotypy. Named coined as a subgenus of Rana.

Aubria — Laurent, 1953, Bull. Cercle Zool. Congolais, 21: 27. Elevation in rank to genus.

Aubrya — Schiøtz, 1964, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 127: 6. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

English Names

Ball Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 98).

Fishing Frogs (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 284).

Distribution

Rainforests of Guinea to Dem. Rep. Congo.

Comment

Prior to the revision of Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297, placed at one time in subfamily Raninae, tribe Pyxicephalini by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 66, and subsequently in subfamily Pyxicephalinae by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 317. The sister-taxon of Pyxicephalus according to Clarke, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 285-331; regarded as a subgenus of Rana by Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 225-284, and subsequently Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 66, and Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 317) regarded it as a genus. Most recently revised by Perret, 1995 "1994", Tropical Zool., 7: 255-269, and Ohler, 1996, Alytes, 13: 141-166. See comment under Pyxicephalus. Rödel, Gil, Agyei, Leaché, Diaz, Fujita, and Ernst, 2005, Salamandra, 41: 111-112, summarized the confusing taxonomic history of the species. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the monophyly of Pyxicephalinae and the sister-taxon relationship of Aubria and Pyxicephalus. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 329–331, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 352–353, provided brief accounts, photographs, and range maps for the species.

Contained taxa (2 sp.):

Aubria masako Ohler and Kazadi, 1990

Aubria subsigillata (Duméril, 1856)

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