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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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Amolops nepalicus Yang, 1991

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

Amolops nepalicus Yang, 1991, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 63: 23. Holotype: UMMZ 132063, by original designation. Type locality: "Sabhaya, Kbota, Nepal"; data associated with the specimen are actually "2 km E of Barabise 2200 ft (Barabise is on Sabhaya [= Sabha] Khola, tributary of Arun River, ca 3 km NE of Kandari", Nepal, according to G. Schneider (personal comm.) and Wang, Bhattarai, Wu, Che, and Siler, 2020, Zootaxa, 4819: 147, who noted the type locality to be at roughly at 27°25′34″N, 87°18′23″E, WGS 84.

Common Names

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

Nepal Cascade Frog (Schleich, Anders, and Kästle, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 79).

Distribution

Known from the type locality (Sabha Khola) and Dobhan, both in the Sankhuwasabha District, as well as Ilam and Taplejung districts, eastern Nepal; in India in West Bengal (Latpanchar in Darjeeling District and Rishi Khola in Kalimpong District at elevations ranging from ca. 630 to 1,030 m), and from Sikkim state (Rey village in Gangtok District, at an elevation of ca. 1260 m).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India, Nepal

Comment

Formerly in the synonymy of Amolops marmoratus, where it had been placed by Dubois, 2000, in Miehe and Zhang (eds.), Environm. Changes in High Asia: 331, and Dubois, 2004, Alytes, 21: 176. The revision by Dever, Fuiten, Konu, and Wilkinson, 2012, Copeia, 2012: 57-76, vitiated this synonymy but did not address it. Formally removed from that synonymy by Khatiwada, Shu, Wang, Zhao, Xie, and Jiang, 2020, Asian Herpetol. Res., 11: 71–94, who discussed its taxonomy and found it to be the sister taxon of Amolops panhai and by Wang, Bhattarai, Wu, Che, and Siler, 2020, Zootaxa, 4819: 143–158, who redescribed the holotype and provided a detailed account. Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 207–211, provided an account for the Nepal population (in the sense of also including Amolops mahabharatensis), as Amolops marmoratus. See Shah and Tiwari, 2004, Herpetofauna Nepal: 50, for brief accounts for Nepal. Khatiwada, Wang, Zhao, Xie, and Jiang, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 1–35, discussed the genetics of the Nepal population. In the Amolops marmoratus group of Jiang, Ren, Lyu, Wang, Wang, Lv, Wu, and Li, 2021, Zool. Res., Kunming, 42: 574–591. Mahony, Nidup, Streicher, Teeling, and Kamei, 2022, Herpetol. J., 32: 147, provided DNA-confirmed records from Ilam and Taplejung Districts, eastern Nepal. In the Amolops marmoratus group of Biju, Ellepola, Sarmah, Upadhyaya K., Bisht, Tajo, Hanken, and Garg, 2026, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 164: 1–144, who reported on the molecular and morphological phylogenetics of the group and provided genetically confirmed records from India.

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