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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.
* = "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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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
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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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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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Aquarana Dubois, 1992

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Aquarana

7 species

Aquarana Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 331. Type species: Rana catesbeiana Shaw, 1802, by original designation. Proposed as a subgenus of Rana.

Aquarana — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 245. Treatment as a genus.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Eastern North America, except southern Florida, north to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, southern Quebec, and southern Ontario (Canada), west to the central plains and south to Hidalgo, Puebla, and adjacent Veracruz (Mexico); introduced on Cuba, Isla de Juventud (= Isla de Pinos), Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and Jamaica in the Antilles; introduced widely in the rest of the world including the Netherlands, Bordeaux region of France, Belgium, northern Italy, western Spain, Crete, Malaya (Malaysia), Java, Bali, Japan, southern and western Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guiana, Paraguay, Venezuela, Uruguay, northern Thailand, Korea, and Taiwan and Daishan Island, Zheiang Province, as well as Hong Kong, Guangdong, and Xinjiang, China, and Bali, Indonesia.

Comment

Austin, Lougheed, Moler, and Boag, 2003, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 80, reported on the phylogenetics and zoogeography of the Rana catesbeiana group. MacGuigan, Mount, Watkins-Colwell, Near, and Lambert, 2022, Ichthyol. & Herpetol., 110: 602–617, reported on the molecular phylogenetics of Aquarana, as part of Rana.

Contained taxa (7 sp.):

Aquarana catesbeiana (Shaw, 1802)

Aquarana clamitans (Latreille, 1801)

Aquarana grylio (Stejneger, 1901)

Aquarana heckscheri (Wright, 1924)

Aquarana okaloosae (Moler, 1985)

Aquarana septentrionalis (Baird, 1854)

Aquarana virgatipes (Cope, 1891)

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