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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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Odorrana absita (Stuart and Chan-ard, 2005)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Odorrana > Species: Odorrana absita

Huia absita Stuart and Chan-ard, 2005, Copeia, 2005: 282. Holotype: FMNH 258107, by original designation. Type locality: "Laos, Xe Kong Province, Kaleum Distict, Xe Sap National Biodiversity Conservation Area, 8 m from a small tributary of the Houay Alung Stream, on a 3 cm diameter tree branch 1 m above the ground, 16° 00′ 32″ N, 106° 55′ 31″ E, 920-1000 m elevation".

Rana gigatympana Orlov, Ananjeva, and Ho, 2006, Russ. J. Herpetol., 13: 156. Holotype: ZISP 7574, by original designation. Type locality: "Mang Canh village, Konplong district, Kon Tum province, Vietnam (14° 38′ 96″ N 108°17′ 82″ E, 1150 m elevation)". Synonymy by Nguyen, Dubrovskaya, Keetapithchayakul, Le, Eguchi, and Poyarkov, 2026, Zootaxa, 5828: 59.

Odorrana gigatympana — Frost, 2007, Amph. Spec. World, vers. 5.1, by implication of results of Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43.

Odorrana absita — Stuart, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 54.

Common Names

Remote Odorous Frog (Stuart, Seateun, Sivongxay, and Phimmachak, 2025 "2024", in Wildlife Lao PDR: 39).

Big-eared Odorous Frog (Odorrana gigatympana [no longer recognized]: Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 49).

Distribution

Known from the central Annamites in Xekong and Salavan Provinces, southern Laos, 920–1490 m elevation, and Tra My District, Ngoc Linh Mountain Range, Quang Nam Province, as well as Kon Tum, Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam, Gia Lai, and Phu Yen provinces in central Vietnam, 463 to 1250 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Laos, Vietnam

Comment

Most similar to Huia masonii according to the original publication. Bain and Nguyen, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 332, provided the Quang Name Province, Vietnam, record. Bain, Nguyen, and Doan, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 108, provided records from Thua Thien-Hue and Kon Tum provinces, Vietnam.Natural history, range, revised diagnosis, and description of Odorrana gigatympana provided by Nguyen, Pham, Do, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2018, Russ. J. Herpetol., 25: 239–244. Dubrovskaya, Nguyen, and Poyarkov, 2021, Program & Abstractis, VIII Congr. Nikolksy Herpetol. Soc.: 97, suggested that, on the basis of mtDNA markers, that Odorrana gigatympana likely represents a synonym of Odorrana absita; synonymy subsequently made by Nguyen, Dubrovskaya, Keetapithchayakul, Le, Eguchi, and Poyarkov, 2026, Zootaxa, 5828: 59–80, on the basis of discussion of molecular and morphological evidence.

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