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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 tanfuilianae Sheridan, Phimmachak, Sivongxay, and Stuart, 2023

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

Amolops tanfuilianae Sheridan, Phimmachak, Sivongxay, and Stuart, 2023, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 73: 939. Holotype: NCSM 79949, by original designation. Type locality: "Laos, Xaysomboun Province, Longchaeng District, 19.01807 N, 102.87633 E, 490 m elev., . . . on a plant leaf 0.3 m above <1 m wide steep rocky seep flowing into the Nam Ngum River in disturbed semi-evergreen forest". https://zoobank.org/0653C571-E9FF-4580-B07FD3A586986E3D

Common Names

Fui Lian’s Lao Torrent Frog (original publication).

Distribution

Clear streams with torrents in Luang Phabang, Xieng Khouang and Xaysomboun Provinces of northern Laos (405–1594 m elevation) and Son La, Nghe An, and Thanh Hoa Provinces of northern Vietnam.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Laos, Vietnam

Comment

Previously confused with Amolops cremnobatus, according to the original publication, where this member of the Amolops larutensis group was distinguished by larval and adult morphology, coloration, and mt- and nuDNA molecular markers. Pham, Dogra, Gawor, Rauhaus, Kloeble, Nguyen, and Ziegler, 2015, Salamandra, 51: 111–120, provided the first record (as Amolops cremnobatus) for Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam, and included a tadpole description and staging. Reported (as Amolops cremnobatus) from Xuan Nha Nature Reserve, Son La Province, northwestern Vietnam, by Pham, Nguyen, Pham, Sung, Le, Vaxong, and Ziegler, 2022, Herpetol. Notes, 15: 169–178, who also provided descriptive notes on the new specimens. Stuart, Seateun, Sivongxay, and Phimmachak, 2025 "2024", in Wildlife Lao PDR: 38–39, summarized literature, taxonomy, habitat, and detailed range for Laos.

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