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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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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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Clinotarsus curtipes (Jerdon, 1853)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Clinotarsus > Species: Clinotarsus curtipes

Rana curtipes Jerdon, 1853, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 22: 532. Type(s): presumably originally in the ZSIC; reported as lost by Jerdon, 1870, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1870: 67. Type locality: "found in the forest only"; by implication in South India; given as "Malabar, South India" by Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 156.

Pachybatrachus robustus Mivart, 1869 "1868", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868: 557. Holotype: BMNH according to Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 62; this being BMNH 1947.2.2.96 (ormerly 1933.3.7.43) according to museum records. Type locality: Not stated; given as Malabar, India by XXX. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 61.

Clinotarsus robustus — Mivart, 1869, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869: 280.

Hylorana curtipes — Jerdon, 1870, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1870: 83; Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 144.

Rana curtipes — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 61.

Rana (Hylorana) curtipes — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 131-133.

Rana (Hylarana) curtipes — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42.

Rana (Clinotarsus) curtipes — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 328.

Clinotarsus curtipes — Krishna and Krishna, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 21; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 368; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3.

Common Names

Bicoloured Frog (Daniel and Sekar, 1989, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 86: 196; Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 65; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 73).

Bicolored Frog (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 231).

Malabar Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).

Bicoloured Forest Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 10).

Distribution

Evergreen forests in the northern parts of Kerala to southwestern Maharashtra, as well as the forest areas near Topslip in Tamil Nadu, Western Ghats region, southwestern India, 500–2000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

See accounts by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 131, and Daniel and Sekar, 1989, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 86: 196. Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 17, noted the range. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 97-98, provided a brief account. Considered a junior synonym of Rana kuhlii by Theobald, 1868, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 37: 80. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 156-157, provided range and partial taxonomic bibliography. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 231-232, provided an account. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted several larval descriptions in the literature. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Rana curtipes) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 632. Ganesh and Asokan, 2010, Hamadryad, 35: 46-63, reported a specimen from Bangalore, Karnataka, India. A very brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 104. Sivaprasad, 2013, Common Amph. Kerala: 120–121, provided a brief account, photograph, and dot map for Kerala, India. Sreekumar and Dinesh, 2020, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 120: 33–40, discussed the range in Maharashtra, India, in terms of agro-climatic zones. Yadav, Bhosale, and Gopalan, 2021, Reptiles & Amphibians, 28: 542–545, provided records for Sangli and Kolhapur Districts, Maharashtra, India, and provided a range map for the species. Raj, Vasudevan, Aggarwal, Dutta, Sahoo, Mahapatra, Sharma, Janani, Kar, and Dubois, 2023, Alytes, 39–40: 82–86, reported on larval morphology of genetically-confirmed specimens from Tamil Nadu, India.

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