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* = "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
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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 narina (Stejneger, 1901)

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

Rana narina Stejneger, 1901, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 14: 189. Holotype: TIU 19A, lost according to Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 123. Type locality: "Okinawa Shima, Riu Kiu Archipelago", Japan.

Buergeria ijimae Stejneger, 1901, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 14: 190. Holotype: TIU 19(914), lost by implication that entire collection destroyed in WWII according to Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2. Type locality: "Okinawa Shima, Riu Kiu Archipelago", Japan. Synonymy by Inger, 1947, Fieldiana, Zool., 32: 331-332; Nakamura and Ueno, 1963, Japan. Rept. Amph. Color: 51; Matsui, 1994, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 111: 385-415; Matsui and Ota, 1995, Spec. Publ. Japan. Soc. Coleopterol., Tokyo, 4: 491.

Rana ijimae — Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 121.

Rana (Hylorana) ijimae — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 127-130.

Rana (Rana) narina — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 7.

Hylorana ijimae — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 144.

Rana narina narina — Wang and Chan, 1977, Q. J. Taiwan Mus., 30: 329-339, by implication.

Rana (Euphlyctis) narina — Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 239, by implication.

Euphlyctis narina — Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 124, by implication.

Rana (Hylarana) narina narina — Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 120.

Pelophylax narina — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 133.

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

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

Huia narina — 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 narina — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13, by implication.

Eburana ijimae — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 35. Unexplained recognition. See comment under Ranidae record.

Eburana narina — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 36. See comment under Ranidae record.

Common Names

Ryukyu Island Frog (Rana narina: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).

Ijima Frog (Rana ijimae [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).

Ryukyu Tip-nosed Frog (Rana narina: Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 120-123).

Okinawa Tip-nosed Frog (Rana narina: Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 76).

Distribution

Northern part of Okinawa Ryukyu Islands, Japan.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Japan

Endemic: Japan

Comment

Subgenus Eburana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 328. See Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 134-136; Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 176; Okada, 1966, Fauna Japon., Anura: 123-126; and Nakamura and Ueno, 1963, Japan. Rept. Amph. Color: 51. See comment under Rana ijimae. Records of China refer to Rana swinhoana; see comment under Rana swinhoana. Intraspecific differentiation reported by Nishioka, Ueda, and Sumida, 1987, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 9: 261-303, who noted what presumably constitute a minimum of three species (and possibly be six—DRF): (1) "Iriomote Dwarf-type" + "Ishigaki Dwarf type" (now Rana utsunomiyaorum ), "Iriomote Giant-type" + "Ishigaki Giant type" (now Rana supranarina), "Okinawa Middle-type" (type of Rana narina—DRF) + "Amami Giant-type". The "Amami Giant type" is now Rana amamiensis. See Rana supranarina. Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 120-123, provided an account. Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 76-78, provided an account, map, and photograph. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana narina) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 508.

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