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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 morafkai (Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003)

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

Rana (Odorrana) morafkai Bain, Lathrop, Murphy, Orlov, and Ho, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3417: 44. Holotype: ROM 39932, by original designation. Type locality: "Tram Lap, An Khe District, Gia Lai Province, Vietnam (14° 26′ 39″ N, 108° 32′ 97″ E, elevation ca. 900 m)".

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

Huia morafkai — 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

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

Morafkai Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 30).

Morafkai Cascade Frog (Neang and Holden, 2008, Field Guide Amph. Cambodia: 72).

Distribution

Thanh Hoa, Gia Lai, Ha Tinh, Thue Thien-Hue, Thanh Hoa, Quang Ngai, and Quang Nam Provinces, Vietnam, in cascade habitats in forested montane river systems; Champasak and Xe Phong Provinces, Laos; hilly northeastern Cambodia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam

Comment

Teynié, David, Ohler, and Luanglath, 2004, Hamadryad, 29: 37, provided a record and comments for Laos. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 30, provided specific localities for Vietnam. Stuart, Sok, and Neang, 2006, Raffles Bull. Zool., 54: 141, provided records for Cambodia. See comments by Bain and Stuart, 2006 "2005", Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam Soc., 53: 3–16. Bain, Nguyen, and Doan, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 110, provided records from Thue Thien-Hue Province, Vietnam, and briefly discussed the distribution. Neang and Holden, 2008, Field Guide Amph. Cambodia: 72, provided a photograph, brief account of identification, ecology, and range in Cambodia, and noted that without DNA analysis it is nearly impossible to distinguish this species from Odorrana banaorum. Tran, Le, Le, Vu, Nguyen, Böhme, and Ziegler, 2010, Herpetol. Notes, 3: 111–119, provided a record from Quang Ngai Province, central Vietnam, and provided a brief morphological diagnosis. Pham, Nguyen, Hoang, and Ziegler, 2016, Herpetol. Notes, 9: 31–41, provided a photograph and record for Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam. Stuart, Seateun, Sivongxay, and Phimmachak, 2025 "2024", in Wildlife Lao PDR: 40, summarized literature, taxonomy, habitat, and detailed range for Laos.

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