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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 versabilis (Liu and Hu, 1962)

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

Rana versabilis Liu and Hu, 1962, Acta Zool. Sinica, 14 (Supplement): 89, 103. Holotype: CIB 603803, by original designation. Type locality: "San-men of Hua-ping, Lung-shen-hsien [= Longsheng County], altitude 870 m, Kwangsi [= Guangxi Xiang Autonomous Region]", China.

Odorrana versabilis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 149; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 261; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 190; Song, Jang, Zou, and Shi, 2002, Herpetol. Sinica, 9: 70.

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

Odorrana (Bamburana) versabilis — Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 125; Chen, Mo, Lin, and Qin, 2024, ZooKeys, 1190: 133.

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

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

Common Names

Bamboo Leaf Odorous Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 190).

Bamboo-leaf Frog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 322).

竹叶蛙 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 10).

Kwangsi Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 110).

Distribution

Southeastern China, from central Jiangxi, Hunan, and northern Guangdong west to eastern Guizhou and northern and central Guangxi, 800 to 1350 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Section Hylarana, subsection Hylarana, Rana (Odorrana) andersonii group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 329. Related to Rana sanguinea according to the original publication. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 190–191, provided a brief account, map, and figure (as including Rana nasuta and Rana exiliversabilis, both subsequently described from Fujian and Hainan). Li, Ye, and Fei, 2001, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 26: 593–600, reported on morphometric and biochemical variation across geography and suggested that this nominal species is composed at least three species represented by their samples from: 1) Guangxi, Hunan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, and Anhui (Qimen); 2) Fujian, Zhejiang, and Anhui (Huangshan) and 3) Hainan I. These populations were subsequently named as Odorrana exiliversabilis and Odorrana nasuta by Fei, Ye, and Li, 2001, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 26: 601–607. Huang, 1990, Fauna Zhejiang, Amph. Rept.: 78–79, provided an account for Zhejiang populations. Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 101, provided an account (as Odorrana versabilis) for Guangxi. Ye and Fei, 2001, Acta Zool. Sinica, 47: 528–534, placed this in their Odorrana livida group. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1207–1211, provided an account, figures, and map for China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 322–323, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 362–363, provided an account (as Bamburana versabilis), photographs, and a range map. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 244–247, provided an account for Hunan, China. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 51, provided a brief account for Guangdong, China, and photograph. Zhang, 2017, Amph. Rept. Fanjing Mts.: 124–126, provided (as Bamburana versabilis) taxonomic and natural history information for the Fanjing Mountains population in northeastern Guizhou, China. Zhang, Zhang, Wu, Tang, Sheng, Xie, Huang, Ou, Xiao, and Xiang, 2026, Life Sci. Res., 30: 124–136, discussed habitat in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Hunan Province, China.

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