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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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Hylarana montana (Rao, 1922)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Hylarana > Species: Hylarana montana

Rana (Hylorana) gracilis montanus Rao, 1922, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 28: 439. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.2.66 (formerly BMNH 1921.1.20.6) according to Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 311. Type locality: "Hill forests of Bhagamandla", India. Incorrect gender of species name.

Rana (Hylorana) bhagmandlensis Rao, 1922, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 28: 441. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.2.12 (originally 1921.1.20.1) by museum records; BMNH 1947.2.2.12 unnecessarily designated lectotype by Dutta, 1990, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 87: 310. Type locality: "Water course in the forests of Bhagamandla, Coorg, 4000 feet", Mysore, India. Synonymy with Hylarana aurantiaca by Dutta, 1990, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 87: 310. Synonymy not accepted; without discussion, by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. Synonymy with Hylarana montana by Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 311.

Rana (Hylarana) bhagmandlensis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42, by implication.

Rana (Sylvirana) bhagmandlensis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326.

Sylvirana bhagmandlensis — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 34. Undiscussed recognition. See comment under Ranidae record.

Hylarana montanus — Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 311. Gender disagreement of species and generic names.

Indosylvirana montana — Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 190.

Hylarana montana — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 501, by implication.

Hylarana (Indosylvirana) montana — Wu, Xu, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Murphy, Papenfuss, Lathrop, Kilunda, Gao, Yuan, Chen, Zhang, Zhao, Wang, Rahman, Nneji, Zhao, Wang, Jin, Zhang, and Che, 2024 "2025", Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 108223: 1–11, by implication.

Common Names

Montane Golden-backed Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 10).

Distribution

Widely distributed in the Western Ghats of the state of Karnataka, India.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Hylarana temporalis (where it had been placed by Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 158, 164) and placed in their Hylarana flavescens group by Biju, Garg, Mahony, Wijayathilaka, Senevirathne, and Meegaskumbura, 2014, Contr. Zool., Amsterdam, 83: 311, who revised the entire group of species.

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