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
	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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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 margaretae (Liu, 1950)

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

Rana margaretae Liu, 1950, Fieldiana, Zool. Mem., 2: 303. Holotype: FMNH 49418, by original designation. Type locality: "Panlungshan [= Mt. Panlong], Kwanhsien [= Guan county], Szechwan [= Sichuan Province], 3500 feet altitude", China.

Rana margaratae — Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 204. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Odorrana margaretae — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 147; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 262; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 192.

Rana (Odorrana) margaretae — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329.

Odorrana (Odorrana) margaretae — Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 126.

Odorrana margaretae — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 239; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1–13, by implication.

Huia margaretae — 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.

Common Names

Margareta's Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).

Margaret Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 29).

Green Odorous Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 192).

Margaret’s Odorous Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 50).

Distribution

Isolated populations in Gansu, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, and southern Shaanxi, China, 390–1500 m elevation; mountains of northern Vietnam (Lao Cai and Lai Chau provinces), 1900 to 2500 m elevation; presumably extending into northeastern Yunnan, China.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Vietnam

Comment

Section Hylarana, subsection Hylarana, Rana (Odorrana) andersonii group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329. See comment under Rana grahami. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 192–193, provided a brief account, map, and figure. Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 204–206, provided an account. Fei and Ye, 2001, Color Handbook Amph. Sichuan: 197, provided a brief account and illustration (as Odorrana margaretae). Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 103, provided an account (as Odorrana margaratae) for Guangxi. Ye and Fei, 2001, Acta Zool. Sinica, 47: 528–534, suggested that this is the sister species of Odorrana andersonii plus Odorrana hainanensis. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 90, provided a statement of range in Vietnam but did not substantiate this with reference to voucher specimens. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 29, provided specific localities for Vietnam. In the Odorrana (Odorrana) margaretae group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 126. Zhao, Rao, Lü, and Dong, 2005, Sichuan J. Zool., 24: 251, provided a brief note on specimens from Medog County, Xizang, China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1231–1237, provided an account, figures, and map for China and placed it in their Odorrana margaretae group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 338–339, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 384–385, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. Yao and Gong, 2012, Amph. Rept. Gansu: 55–56, provided a brief account and photographs. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 251–254, provided an account for Hunan, China. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 53, provided a brief account for Guangdong, China, and photograph. Zhang, 2017, Amph. Rept. Fanjing Mts.: 130–132, provided taxonomic and natural history information for the Fanjing Mountains population in northeastern Guizhou, China. Wen and Fu, 2020, Asian Herpetol. Res., 11: 108–114, reported on clinal variation around the Sichuan Basin.

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