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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 raniceps (Peters, 1871)

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

Polypedates raniceps Peters, 1871, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1871: 580. Syntypes: ZMB 5020 (2 specimens) and MSNG 29376 (2 specimens) according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 49; Bauer, 2016, in Das and Tuen (eds.), Nat. Explor. Field Sci. SE Asia Australasia: 93, also noted ZMB 54894 as a syntype. MSNG 29376B designated lectotype by Capocaccia, 1957, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 3, 69: 215. Type locality: "Pulo Matjan", Kalimantan, Indonesia, and "Sarawak", Malaysia. Restricted to "Sarawak" by lectotype designation.

Rana chalconota raniceps — Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 177; Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 67.

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

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

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

Chalcorana raniceps — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 33; Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 189.

Hylarana (Chalcorana) raniceps — 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

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

White-lipped Frog (Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 159).

Copper-cheeked Frog (Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 64).

Distribution

Swamp forests in Sarawak and Sabah, Malaysia, and adjacent Kalimantan (Indonesia), and Brunei, although likely more widely distributed; Serasan I., Natuna Is., Indonesia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Malaysia, East (Sarawak and/or Sabah)

Comment

Considered a junior synonym of Rana chalconota by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 201; it was revived (as Rana labialis) by Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 220–221. Stuart, Inger, and Voris, 2006, Biol. Lett., 2: 470–474, provided molecular evidence for this species being closely related to Hylarana chalconota and Hylarana labialis, suggested that the species was restricted to Borneo and indistinguishable morphologically from other members of the Hylarana chalconota group. All previous literature should be used with extreme caution. The following comments were added prior to the work by Stuart et al. (2006): Discussed (as Rana chalconota) by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 366–369; Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 63–64. Liem, 1961, Herpetologica, 17: 69–71, compared Rana labialis with Rana chalconota. Before the discussion of Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 177, Polypedates raniceps was only tentatively considered a senior synonym of Rana labialis. Elevated from status as a subspecies of Rana chalconota; without discussion, by Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 328. See discussion (as Rana chalconota raniceps) by Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 177–183. Sukumaran, 2003 "2002", Hamadryad, 27: 1–10, considered this taxon to be a subspecies of Rana chalconota. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 134–135, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted several larval descriptions in the literature. Reported for Pulau Langkawi, Kadeh, northwestern West Malaysia, by Grismer, Youmans, Wood, Ponce, Wright, Jones, Johnson, Sanders, Gower, Yaakob, and Lim, 2006, Hamadryad, 30: 61–74. Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 159, provided a brief description. Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 64, provided a photograph and brief account, as Rana raniceps. Inger and Stuebing, 2009, Raffles Bull. Zool., 57: 534, commented on the range. Gillespie, Ahmad, and Shia, 2021, Field Guide Frog Lower Kinabatangan Region Sabah: 32, provided a brief account, summarizing identification and life history in the Lower Kinabatangan Region, Sabah, Malaysia. Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 306–332, summarized the knowledge of habitat, reproduction, larval morphology and coloration. Herlambang, Riyanto, Munir, Hamidy, Kimura, Eto, and Mumpuni, 2022, Treubia, 49: 78, reported the species from Bunguran I., Natuna Is., Indonesia.

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