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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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Amolops compotrix (Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Amolops > Species: Amolops compotrix

Rana compotrix Bain, Stuart, and Orlov, 2006, Copeia, 2006: 52. Holotype: FMNH 256500, by original designation. Type locality: "Laos, Khammouan Province, Nakai District, Nakai-Nam Theun National Biodiversity Conservation Area, 3 m from Houay Tin Tou Stream in evergreen forest, collected on a tree 1.5 m above the ground, 17° 58′ N, 105° 34′ E, 700 m elevation".

Odorrana compotrix — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1–13, by implication.

Amolops compotrix — Stuart, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 51.

Common Names

Khammouan Torrent Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 44).

Drinking Partner Torrent Frog (Stuart, Seateun, Sivongxay, and Phimmachak, 2025 "2024", in Wildlife Lao PDR: 38).

Distribution

Known only from northern Laos (Khammouan and Khouang provinces, 700–1425 m elevation), Vietnam (Kon Tum, Thua Tien Hue, and Son La Provinces) so presumably found throughout the southern highlands of Laos and the adjacent central highlands of Vietnam, possibly to extreme northeastern Cambodia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Laos, Vietnam

Likely/Controversially Present: Cambodia

Comment

Related to Amolops archotaphus (as Rana) with previous records from Laos applying to this species, according to the original publication. In the Amolops monticola group of Stuart, Bain, Phimmachak, and Spence, 2010, Herpetologica, 66: 52–66. In the Amolops monticola group of Wu, Yan, Stuart, Prendini, Suwannapoom, Dahn, Zhang, Cai, Xu, Jiang, Chen, Lemmon, Lemmon, Raxworthy, Orlov, Murphy, and Che, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 144 (106701): 1–13, who discussed molecular phylogenetics. Pham, Sung, Pham, Le, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2019, Raffles Bull. Zool., 67: 363, provided a record for Son La Province, Vietnam. In the Amolops monticola group of Jiang, Ren, Lyu, Wang, Wang, Lv, Wu, and Li, 2021, Zool. Res., Kunming, 42: 574–591. Stuart, Seateun, Sivongxay, and Phimmachak, 2025 "2024", in Wildlife Lao PDR: 38, summarized literature, taxonomy (including a suggestion that this species needs to be compared in detail to Amolops truongi), habitat, and detailed range for Laos. Reported from Vu Quang National Park, Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam, by Dau, Pham, Nguyen, Toan, Tran, and Pham, 2024, Biodiversity Data J., 12(e122598): 1–19. Pham, Nguyen, Nguyen, Le, Ziegler, and Tran, 2024, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 18: 20–47, discussed (as Amolops cf compotrix) natural history and records from Copia Nature Reserve, Son La Province, Vietnam.

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