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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 liboensis Luo, Wang, Xiao, Wang, and Zhou, 2021

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

Odorrana liboensis Luo, Wang, Xiao, Wang, and Zhou, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 386. Holotype: GZNU20180608004, by original designation. Type locality: "Maolan National Nature Reserve (25.481711° N, 108.078003° E, ca. 715 m a.s.l.), Libo County, Guizhou Province, China".

Common Names

Libo Odorous Frog (original publication).

Distribution

Known from several localities in China, including: (1) Maolan National Nature Reserve, Libo County, Guizhou, (2) Liunan District, Liuzhou City, Guangxi, (3) Masi Town, Xincheng County, Guangxi, (4) Xialei Town, Daxin County, Guangxi and (5) Nongyao Village, Napo County, Guangxi; northern Vietnam from (1) Trang Dinh forest, Lang Son province, and (2) Ba Be National Park, Thai Nguyen Province (formerly Bac Kan Province); controversially Nam Xuan Lac HSCA, Bac Kan, Vietnam (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Likely/Controversially Present: Vietnam

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Most closely related to Odorrana lipuensis according to the original publication, where comparative morphology and molecular markers were detailed. Mo, Liu, Chen, Yu, and Sun, 2022, Chinese J. Zool., 57: 937–943, provided a genetically-confirmed record from Nongyao, Napo County, Baise City, Guangxi Province, China (23°01′21″ N, 105°50′58″ E). Song, Qi, Wang, Gong, Liu, and Wang, 2025, Zoosyst. Evol., 101: 935–952, provided a detailed account of the species as part of a revision of the Odorrana lipuensis group, including photographs, comparative morphology and a molecular tree, as well as a dot map of distribution. These authors also suggested that the record of Odorrana lipuensis from Nam Xuan Lac HSCA, Bac Kan, Vietnam, likely applies to this species, given the change in diagnoses following their revision. Li, Mu, Jing, Liu, Cheng, and Wang, 2025, Zoosyst. Evol., 101: 1950, provided a dot map which showed both Odorrana lipuensis and Odorrana liboensis in Guangxi, China, and northeastern Vietnam. Pham, Hoang, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2025, Acad. J. Biol., 47: 1–10, provided genetically confirmed records from (1) Trang Dinh forest, Lang Son province, and (2) Ba Be National Park, Thai Nguyen Province (formerly Bac Kan Province), Vietnam, and provided morphological descriptions.

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