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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 loloensis (Liu, 1950)

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

Staurois loloensis Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 353. Holotype: FMNH 49408, by original designation. Type locality: "Lolokou, Chaochiaohsien, Sikang [= Szechwan], 10000 feet altitude", China.

Amolops loloensis — Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 256, by implication; Zhao In Hu, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 455; Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 166; Yang, 1991, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 63: 17; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3.

Staurois liangshanensis Wu and Zhao, 1984, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 3 (4): 5. Types: CIB, by original designation. Type locality: Qiliba, Zhaojue County, Sichuan Province, China, 3000 m elevation [original in Chinese; this translation provided by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 134]. Synonymy by Lyu, Zeng, Wan, Yang, Li, Pang, and Wang, 2019, Zootaxa, 4609: 247.

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

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

English Names

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

Rufous-spotted Torrent Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 236).

Distribution

High-gradients streams in western and southern Sichuan to north-central Yunnan, China, 1840-3700 m elevation.

Comment

Discussed (as Staurois loloensis) by Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 235–237. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 236, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 209, provided a brief account and illustration. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 112–113. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 95–96, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 476. Wiens, Sukumaran, Pyron, and Brown, 2009, Evolution, 63: 1217–1231, found Amolops loloensis sequences to fit two places in their ranid tree, in one place as the sister taxon of Pseudorana weiningensis, suggesting that this terminal may actually represent a misidentified Pseudorana. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1535–1538, 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.: 406–407, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 420–421, 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. Nomenclature discussed by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 340, and Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 134. Amolops liangshanensis regarded as a synonym of Amolops jinjiangensis by Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 176; without discussion. Cai, Che, Pang, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Zootaxa, 1531: 49-55, found Amolops liangshanensis to be more closely related to Amolops loloensis than to Amolops jinjiangensis. 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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