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* = "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
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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 wangyali Mahony, Nidup, Streicher, Teeling, and Kamei, 2022

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

Amolops wangyali Mahony, Nidup, Streicher, Teeling, and Kamei, 2022, Herpetol. J., 32: 157. Holotype: SCZM 2019.07.18.1, by original designation. Type locality: "Bodidrang Chhu/Stream (27.27023, 91.53043, 1,740–1,750 m a.s.l.), Namla Village, Kanglung Gewog (village block), Trashigang District, eastern Bhutan". urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:729D12FC-6EAD-49C5-B17AB901FD636FCA

Amolops chanakya Saikia, Laskar, Dinesh, Shabnam, and Sinha, 2022, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 122: 250. Holotype: V/A/NERC/ZSI/1771, by original designation. Type locality: "Chakpa Village (N 27.422089; E 92.2190308; alt.: 1794 m), Dirang, West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, India". Zoobank publication registration: D74CAC25-CB71-4027-82C6-DE3EB70CA6C2. Synonymy by Biju, Ellepola, Sarmah, Upadhyaya K., Bisht, Tajo, Hanken, and Garg, 2026, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 164: 125.

Common Names

Wangyal’s Torrent Frog (original publication).

Chanakya’s Cascade Frog (Amolops chanakya [no longer recognized]: Saikia, Laskar, Dinesh, Shabnam, and Sinha, 2022, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 122: 250).

Distribution

Known from four localities in Trashigang District, and possibly in Trashiyangtse District, eastern Bhutan (1520 to 2073 m elevation); Chakpa Village, Dirang Administrative Circle, West Kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh, India (1750 to 1795 m elevation).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bhutan, India

Comment

Previously confused with Amolops mantzorum and Amolops himalayanus according to the original publication where comparative morphology, coloration, genetic markers, natural history, and relevant literature were reviewed in detail as well as assignment to the Amolops viridimaculatus group. In the Amolops viridimaculatus 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 genus, with special reference to the species of India, including providing genetically-confirmed records from India.

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