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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 hosii (Boulenger, 1891)

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

Rana Hosii Boulenger, 1891, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 8: 290. Holotype: BMNH, by original designation. Type locality: "Borneo, on Mount Dulit", Sarawak, Malaysia.

Rana durheimi Baumann, 1913, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 34: 275. Holotype: NHM, by original designation. Type locality: "Battak-Gebirge von West-Sumatra . . . . aus 800 m Höhe". Synonymy by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 199; Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 215; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 385.

Rana (Hylorana) hosii — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 127, 199.

Rana cataracta Smith, 1922, J. Fed. Malay States Mus., 10: 275. Holotype: BMNH (formerly M. Smith 6164). Type locality: "Khao Ram, Nakon Sritamarat Hills, Peninsular Siam, at 300 metres elevation". Synonymy by Smith, 1930, Bull. Raffles Mus., 3: 110; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 385.

Rana (Hylarana) hosii — Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 215; Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 68.

Staurois hosii — Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 385.

Rana hosei — Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 187. Misspelling.

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

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

Rana (Odorrana) hosii — Matsui, Shimada, Ota, and Tanaka-Ueno, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 37: 740.

Huia hosii — 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.

Odorrana hosii — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13, by implication; Stuart, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 54.

English Names

Hose's Frog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 133; Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 134).

Mount Dulit Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).

Green Tree Frog (Kiew, 1987, Malayan Nat. J., 41: 422).

Poisonous Rock Frog (Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 68; Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 62; Grismer, 2012, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Seribuat Arch.: 80).

Green Odorfrog (Zug and Mulcahy, 2020 "2019", Amph. Rept. S. Tanintharyi: 56).

Distribution

Southern peninsular Thailand and southern peninsular Myanmar, Malaya, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo.

Comment

Subgenus Chalcorana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. See accounts by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 199; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 385-387 (as Staurois hosii), Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 465-468, and by Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 187-191. See also Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 69-70, and Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 68-69 (who noted that this very variable species might represent a complex of species). See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 110-111. Malkmus, Manthey, Vogel, Hoffmann, and Kosuch, 2002, Amph. Rept. Mount Kinabalu: 161-162, provided an account. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 134-135, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 62, provided a photograph and brief account, as Rana hosii. Wogan, Vindum, Wilkinson, Koo, Slowinski, Win, Thin, Kyi, Oo, Lwin, and Shein, 2008, Hamadryad, 33: 87, provided the first record for Tanintharyi Division, peninsular Myanmar. See brief account by Grismer, 2012, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Seribuat Arch.: 78-80, for the Seribuat Archipelago, West Malaysia. Sumarli, Grismer, Anuar, Muin, and Quah, 2015, Check List, 11(4, Art. 1679): 14 reported specimens from Lata Tembaka and Lata Beltan, Terregganu, West Malaysia, and briefly reported on their morphology and habitat. Haas, Kueh, Joseph, bin Asri, Das, Hagmann, Schwander, and Hertwig, 2018, Evol. Syst., 2: 89–114, provided a brief account of morphology and natural history for the Sabah population. See comments on morphology and natural history in West Malaysia by Chan, Muin, Anuar, Andam, Razak, and Aziz, 2019, Check List, 15: 1055–1069. Zug and Mulcahy, 2020 "2019", Amph. Rept. S. Tanintharyi: 56, provided a brief account for South Tanintharyi, peninsular Myanmar. See brief account by Amin, 2020, Frogs of East Java: 22–25.

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