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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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Glandirana tientaiensis (Chang, 1933)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Glandirana > Species: Glandirana tientaiensis

Rana tientaiensis Boring and Chang, 1933, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 8: 72. Nomen nudum.

Rana tientaiensis Chang, 1933, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 8: 79. Holotype: Yenching Univ. Mus.; lost, according to Hu, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 518. CIB 740065 designated neotype by Fei and Ye In Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1095. Type locality: "Tientai [= Tiantai County], east-central Chekiang [= Zhejiang Province]; . . . altitude 3000 feet", China. Neotype from "Tiantai Co., Zhejiang Prov. China".

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

Rugosa tientaiensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 146; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 186; Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 37. See comment under Ranidae record.

Rana (Rugosa) tientaiensis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 332.

Glandirana tientaiensis — 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.

English Names

Tiantai Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109).

Tientai Rough-skinned Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 186–187).

Distribution

Zhejiang and southeastern Anhui provinces, central China, 100–700 m elevation; reported from Guangdong, China (see comment).

Comment

Considered a synonym of Rana rugosa by Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 141–142, but subsequently considered a distinct species by Sichuan Biological Research Institute, 1977, Syst. Key Chinese Amph.: 41, 82; Zhao and Huang, 1982, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 1 (1): 10, 22; and Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 150. In the Rana (Rana) rugosa group according to Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42. Not mentioned by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 305–352, presumably implying synonymy with Rana rugosa. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 186–187, provided a brief account, map, and figure. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 74–75, provided an account for Zhejiang populations. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Rana tientaiensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 633. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1095–1100, provided an account (as Rugosa tientaiensis), figures, and map for China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 296, provided a brief account (as Rugosa tientaiensis) including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 334, provided an account (as Rugosa tientaiensis), photographs, and a range map for China. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 43, provided a brief account for Guangdong, China, and photograph, although the identity of this population requires verification.

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