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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 shihaitaoi Wang, Li, Du, Hou, and Yu, 2022

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

Amolops shihaitaoi Wang, Li, Du, Hou, and Yu, 2022, ZooKeys, 1112: 147. Holotype: GXNU YU000353, by original designation. Type locality: "Hekou, Yunnan, China (22.6287°N, 103.8776°E; 532 m a.s.l.)." https://zoobank.org/025A83B3-B0EE-4632-9284-3BA7175CAA6E

English Names

Hekou Torrent Frog (original publication).

Distribution

Rocky streams in Hekou, Yunnan, as well as Jingxi, Guangxi, China and northern Vietnam (Vĩnh Phúc, Cao Bằng, Ha Giang, and Lao Cai provinces).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural resident: China, People's Republic of, Vietnam

Comment

The sister taxon of Amolops yatseni and formerly confused with Amolops ricketti according to the original publication, where comparative morphology, molecular markers and relationships (a member of the Amolops ricketti group), and distribution were detailed, as well as noting previous misidentifications in older literature. See Amolops ricketti record for access to literature where this species was considered part of that species. Hecht, Pham, Nguyen, Nguyen, Bonkowski, and Ziegler, 2013, Biodiversity J., 4: 507–552, reported a record from Tay Yen Tu Nature Reserve, Bac Giang Province, northeastern Vietnam and discussed the range (as Amolops ricketti, presumably Amolops shihaitaoi now). Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 182–183, reported the species (as Amolops ricketti) in Yunnan, China. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 98, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China (based on Amolops shihaitaoi).See comments (as Amolops ricketti) by Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 13. Siliyavong, Hoang, Nguyen, Nguyen, and Pham, 2023, Biodiversity Data J., 11(e104316): 3, provided a record from Tay Con Linh Nature Reserve, Ha Giang Province, northern Vietnam.

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