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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 lifanensis (Liu, 1945)

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

Staurois lifanensis Liu, 1945, J. West China Border Res. Soc., Ser. B, 15: 33. Holotype: CIB 1062, by original designation. Type locality: "Nan-kou ( . . .), Li-fan city ( . . .), Szechwan [= Sichuan], China; 5100 feet altitude".

Amolops lifanensis — Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 256, by implication; Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 62; Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 167; Yang, 1991, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 63: 17; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3.

Amolops (Amolops) lifanensis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 321.

English Names

Lifan Sucker Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 97).

Lifan Torrent Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 236).

Distribution

Lishan and Maoxian and possibly into Wenchuan counties, central Sichuan, China, 1300-2350 m elevation.

Comment

See comment under Amolops kaulbacki. Species status reconfirmed by Yang, 1991, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 63: 17. See account by Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 344-349. See also taxonomic comment by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 134. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 236-237, for brief account, map, and figure. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 208, provided a brief account and illustration. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 111-112. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 628. Tan, 1992 "1991", in Qian et al. (eds.), Animal Sci. Res.: 44-49, suggested on cytotaxonomic grounds that Amolops lifanensis from Maowen (phylogenetically close to Amolops granulosa) and from Lishan (phylogenetically close to Amolops loloensis) are different species. Wiens, Sukumaran, Pyron, and Brown, 2009, Evolution, 63: 1217-1231, suggested that nominal Amolops lifanensis (at least as attached to sequences in GenBank) represent two distantly related species. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1530-1534, provided an account, figures, and range map, and included the species in their Amolops mantzorum group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 404-405, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 418-419, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. Liu, Song, Luo, Xia, and Zeng, 2019, Cytogenet. Genome Res., 157: 172–178, reported on this species as part of a report on the chromosomal evolution in the Amolops mantzorum species group. In the Amolops mantzorum group of Zeng, Liang, Li, Lyu, Wang, and Zhang, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 146 (106753): 1–9, and 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. In the Amolops mantzorum group of Jiang, Ren, Lyu, Wang, Wang, Lv, Wu, and Li, 2021, Zool. Res., Kunming, 42: 574–591.

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