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* = "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
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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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Nidirana lini (Chou, 1999)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Nidirana > Species: Nidirana lini

Rana (Nidirana) lini Chou, 1999, Herpetologica, 55: 301. Holotype: NMNS 3258, by original designation. Type locality: "China: Yunnan Province: Simao Prefecture: Jiangcheng Co., 8 km N Jiangcheng. A pond adjacent to a subtropical forest. 22° 39′ 57″ N, 101° 52′ 22″ E at an elevation of 1400 m".

Hylarana (Nidirana) lini — Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 120.

Nidirana lini — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237; Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 35; Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Lin, Liu, and Wang, 2017, Amphibia-Reptilia, 38: 494.

Babina lini — 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

East China Music Frog ( Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 344, as Nidirana adenopleura).

Lin's Montane Frog (Le, Pham, Nguyen, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2014, Russ. J. Herpetol., 21: 316).

Lin's Music Frog (Lyu, Zeng, Wang, Lin, Liu, and Wang, 2017, Amphibia-Reptilia, 38: 494).

Distribution

Known only from Simao and Honge prefectures, southern Yunnan, China, northwestern Vietnam (Dien Bien and Son La Provinces), Laos (Xieang Khouang Province) and Thailand (Loei and Phetchabun Provinces).

Comment

Most similar to Babina psaltes (as Rana) according to the original publication. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1181-1185, provided an account (as Hylarana lini), figures, and map for China and placed it in their Hylarana (Nidirana) adenopleura group. Chuaynkern, Ohler, Inthara, Duengkae, Makchai, and Salangsingha, 2010, Raffles Bull. Zool., 58: 291-310, redescribed the species and noted that specimens reported from Thailand as Rana adenopleura and some specimens from Laos reported as Babina chapaensis are referrable to this species. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 308-309, provided a brief account (as Hylarana lini) including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 344–345, provided an account (substantially based on mainland populations now referred to as Babina lini, but in this case referred to as Nidirana adenopleura), photographs, and a range map for China; these authors also provided an account for their Nidirana lini, which was restricted to the vicinity of the type locality. The status of the mainland China versus Taiwan populations needs to be evaluated on the basis of molecular evidence (DRF) and is currently unresolved. Le, Pham, Nguyen, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2014, Russ. J. Herpetol., 21: 315–321, provided explicit records for Dien Bien and Son La provinces in northwestern Vietnam and provided an account including morphological, acoustic, and ecological observation. See Lyu, Dai, Li, Wan, Liu, Qi, Lin, Wang, Li, Zeng, Li, Pang, and Wang, 2020, ZooKeys, 914: 127–159, for a discussion of the Nidirana adenopleura group and an entry into the extensive reidentifications in the literature of this group.

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