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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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Hydrophylax malabaricus (Tschudi, 1838)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Hydrophylax > Species: Hydrophylax malabaricus

Rana malabarica Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 40, 80. Syntypes: (6 specimens) MHNN (P 771, 4439, and 4440, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 38. Type locality: "Malabar", India. MHNN 4440 designated lectotype by Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 325.

Hylarana malabarica — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 131.

Hydrophylax malabaricus — Fitzinger, 1861 "1860", Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Phys. Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 42: 414 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; Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 34; Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 190.

Hylorana malabarica — Günther, 1864, Rept. Brit. India: 426.

Rana malabarica — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 60.

Rana (Rana) malabarica — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 9.

Rana (Hydrophylax) malabarica — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 325.

Hylarana malabarica — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1–13, by implication; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 423.

English Names

Fungoid Frog (Chari, 1962, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 59: 71; Daniel and Selukar, 1964 "1963", J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 60: 743; Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66; Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 233; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 77; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 82).

Malabar Hills Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).

Malabar Fungoid Frog (Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 325).

Distribution

Western Ghats region of Indian in Kerala and Tamil Nadu east to Orissa, possibly extending into extreme southern Karnataka.

Comment

Until 2015 all literature that dealt with Hydrophylax malabaricus also implicitly addressed the recently named Hydrophylax bahuvistara; Hydrophylax malabricus now restricted to Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and Hydrophylax bahavistara found in Karnataka, Goa, and Maharstra. See account by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 98. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 126-127, provided a brief account and provided the distribution. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 160-161, provided a range, systematic comments, and partial taxonomic bibliography. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 233-236, provided an account. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted several larval descriptions in the literature. Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 77, suggested the species to occur in Assam. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 82, provided a brief characterization and photograph. In the Hylarana malabarica group of Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 269–335, who provided an account and restricted the range to the Western Ghats region. Padhye, Jadhav, Diwekar, and Dahanukar, 2012, J. Threatened Taxa, 4: 2343–2352, reported on genetic and morphometric variation, delimited at least four distinct clusters of populations that may be cryptic species. Deuti, Sethy, and Ray, 2014, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 114: 133–134, provided a brief account for the Orissa population, India.

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