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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 nasica (Boulenger, 1903)

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

Rana nasica Boulenger, 1903, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 12: 187. Syntypes: BMNH (4 specimens), by original designation, these being BMNH 1947.2.2.88–91 (formerly 1903.4.29.55–56) according to museum records. Type locality: "Man-Son Mountains, Tonkin, altitude 3000–4000 ft.", Vietnam.

Rana (Hylorana) nasica — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 125.

Hylarana nasica — Bourret, 1939, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1939: 36.

Staurois nasica — Liu and Hu, 1960 "1959", Acta Zool. Sinica, 11: 511; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 229.

Amolops nasicus — Hu, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 455; Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 165.

Huia nasica — Yang, 1991, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 63: 31.

Amolops (Huia) nasicus — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 321.

Odorrana nasica — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 239; Ngo, Murphy, Liu, Lathrop, and Orlov, 2006, Amphibia-Reptilia, 27: 81; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3; Stuart, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 54.

Bamburana nasica — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 35. See comment under Ranidae record.

Odorrana (Bamburana) nasica — Chen, Mo, Lin, and Qin, 2024, ZooKeys, 1190: 133.

Common Names

Tonkin Huia Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 99).

Long-snout Torrent Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 234).

Vietnamese Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 112).

Long-snouted Stinky Frog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 39).

Distribution

Tonkin, northern Vietnam (Lao Cai, Bac Giang, and Cao Bang south through Lai Chau, to Ha Tinh and Thua Thien Hue provinces), to southwestern Yunnan, China; in adjacent Laos; possibly in northwestern Thailand (see comment) although confirmation from Wijayarana melasma requires confirmation.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

According to Yang, 1991, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 63: 31, specimens reported earlier from China are not Huia nasica. See accounts (as Rana nasica) by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 171; and Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 352–354. See comments by Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 13. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 234–235, provided a brief account (as Amolops nasicus), map, and figure. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 70, provided an account for Guangxi. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 86, stated the species to occur in Laos. Stuart, 1999, in Duckworth et al. (eds.), Wildlife in Lao PDR: 45, reported the species in Annamite Mountains of Laos. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 112–113, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 21, provided specific localities for Vietnam. Ngo, Murphy, Liu, Lathrop, and Orlov, 2006, Amphibia-Reptilia, 27: 81, noted that Huia nasica is imbedded within Odorrana as traditionally recognized. Stuart, 2005, Herpetol. Rev., 36: 476–477, provided specific localities in Laos. 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: 305, extended the range to Ha Tinh Province in north-central Vietnam. Hecht, Pham, Nguyen, Nguyen, Bonkowski, and Ziegler, 2013, Biodiversity J., 4: 507–552, reported a record from Tay Yen Tu Nature Reserve, Bac Giang Province, northeastern Vietnam and discussed the range. Tran, Pham, and Nguyen, 2018, Proc. 3rd Natl. Sci. Conf. Biol. Res. Teach. Vietnam: 271–277, provided a record from Sin Ho District, Lai Chau Province, Vietnam. Luong, Pham, Do, Hoang, Phan, Nguyen, Ziegler, and Le, 2021, Check List, 17: 445–458, provided records from Lai Chau Province, Vietnam, and discussed the range. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 39, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar and suggested that the species occurs in Kachin, Myanmar, and northern and northwestern Thailand, while these two countries were excluded from the range by Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 51, who suggested that the Thailand record is referrable to Huia melasma. The Myanmar record reidentified as Wijayarana melasma by Sánchez-Vialas, Copete-Mosquera, and Calvo-Revuelta, 2024, Zootaxa, 5457: 19, and who also thought the Thailand record of Odorrana nasica to be referrable to this species.

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