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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 nasuta Li, Ye, and Fei, 2001

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

Odorrana nasuta Li, Ye, and Fei In Fei, Ye, and Li, 2001, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 26: 603, 606. Holotype: CIB 64III0462, by original designation. Type locality: "Wuzhi Shan (Five Finger Mountain) (109.67° E, 18.90° N), Qiongzhong Col., Hainan Prov., China; altitude 720 m".

Rana trankieni Orlov, Le, and Ho, 2003, Russ. J. Herpetol., 10: 124. Holotype: Zoology Department, Faculty of Agrobiology, Hanoi University of Education 303.3, by original designation. Type locality: "Muong Do village (approximately 2 km to the west from village), Phu Yen district, Son La province, Vietnam (21° 02′ N, 104° 30′ E)". Synonymy by Song, Zhang, Qi, Lyu, Zeng, Zhu, Huang, Luan, Shu, Gong, Liu, and Wang, 2023, Asian Herpetol. Res., 14: 283.

Odorrana (Bamburana) nasuta — Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 124; Chen, Mo, Lin, and Qin, 2024, ZooKeys, 1190: 133.

Odorrana nasuta — 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 nasuta — 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.

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

Rana nasuta — Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 508.

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

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

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

Common Names

Hainan Bamboo-leaf Frog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 324).

Trankien Frog (Odorrana trankieni [no longer recognized]: Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 31).

Tran Kien's Odorous Frog (Odorrana trankieni [no longer recognized]: Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 51).

Distribution

Qiongzhong, Lingshui, and Baisha on Hainan Island, 350–850 m elevation as well as central (Jinxiu District), southwestern (Shangxi District), and southern (Wuming District) Guangxi, China; in Vietnam from (1) Thuong Tien Nature Reserve, Hoa Binh Province, (2) Tay Yen Tu Nature Reserve, Bac Giang Province, and (3) Phu Yen District, Son La Province.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

Confused with Rana versabilis prior to its description. Ye and Fei, 2001, Acta Zool. Sinica, 47: 528–534, placed this in their Odorrana livida group. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana nasuta) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 508. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1203–1207, provided an account, figures, and map for China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 324, provided a brief account including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 364, provided an account (as Bamburana nasuta), photographs, and a range map. Pham, Le, Ngo, and Nguyen, 2020, Acad. J. Biol., 42: 33–40, provided records for nominal Odorrana trankieni from Hoa Binh and Bac Giang provinces, Vietnam, and provided an augmented morphological description and ecological information. Chen, Mo, Lin, and Qin, 2024, ZooKeys, 1190: 131–152 (25 Jan 2024) continued the recognition of Odorrana trankieni, but without citing the synonymy by Song, Zhang, Qi, Lyu, Zeng, Zhu, Huang, Luan, Shu, Gong, Liu, and Wang, 2023, Asian Herpetol. Res., 14: 283–299 (8 Oct 2023), and with substantially different sampling density rendering the results of the two studies not comparable with respect to this question.

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