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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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Pelophylax fukienensis (Pope, 1929)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Pelophylax > Species: Pelophylax fukienensis

Rana fukienensis Pope, 1929, Am. Mus. Novit., 352: 4. Holotype: AMNH 29182, by original designation. Type locality: "Futsing Hsien [= Fuqing County], northeastern Fukien [= Fujian] Province, China".

Rana lighti Taylor, 1934, Lingnan Sci. J., Canton, 13: 306. Holotype: EHT-HMS 29836 (formerly EHT 1044), by original designation; now UIMNH 25051 according to XXX. Type locality: "Amoy, Fukien [= Fujian]", China. Synonymy byLiu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 166; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 332; Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 369.

Rana plancyi fukienensis — Boring, 1938 "1938–1939", Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 13: 102; Kashiwagi, 1994, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 13: 245; Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 146-147.

Rana fukienensis — Kuramoto, 1983, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 6: 264-266; Kawamura, 1985, Saishu to Shiku, 47: 259; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 332.

Rana (Rana) fukienensis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41-42, by implication.

Pelophylax plancyi fukienensis — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 134; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 227; Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 160.

Rana czarevskyi Dunayev and Orlova, 1994, Russ. J. Herpetol., 1: 65. Nomen nudum.

Rana (Pelophylax) fukienensis — Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 174.

Rana czarevskyi Terentjev in Barabanov, 2000, Russ. J. Herpetol., 7: 85. Holotype: ZISP 1555, by original designation. Type locality: "Fu-tschau", (= Fuzhou City), Fujian, China. Synonymy with Rana plancyi by Barabanov, 2000, Russ. J. Herpetol., 7: 85 and Pelophylax chosenica (extralimital) by Milto and Barabanov, 2011, Russ. J. Herpetol., 18: 146. Provisionally placed in this synonymy on the basis of geography (DRF).

Hylarana fukienensis — Chen, Murphy, Lathrop, Ngo, Orlov, Ho, and Somorjai, 2005, Herpetol. J., 15: 237, by implication.

Pelophylax fukienensis — Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 110. 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: 369; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1-13; by implication.

English Names

Futsing Hsien Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107).

Fukien Gold-striped Pond Frog (Rana plancyi fukienensis: Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 160).

Green Pond Frog (Guo, Yang, and Li, 2009, Colored Illust. Amph. Rept. Taiwan: 88).

Distribution

Southeastern China (Jianxi, Fujian) and Taiwan.

Comment

Closely related to Pelophylax nigromaculatus and Pelophylax plancyi (as Rana), according to the original publication. See account by Ting, 1951, Copeia, 1951: 120-126. Removed from the synonymy of Pelophylax plancyi by Kuramoto, 1983, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 6: 253-267. See comments under Pelophylax plancyi and Pelophylax chosenicus. Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 167, noted that all comparisons of Pelophylax fukienensis with possible conspecifics had been made with specimens from Taiwan, rather than the mainland population in which the type locality lies; that mutual status of the two populations remains arguable. See accounts by Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 227-229; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 160-161. Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 166, had considered both Rana lighti Taylor, 1934, and Rana fukienensis Pope, 1929, to be synonyms of Pelophylax plancyi (Lataste). In the Pelophylax plancyi group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 110. Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 78-79, provided a brief account (as Rana plancyi) for Taiwan. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1049-1056, provided an account, figures, and map for China and included it in their Pelophylax plancyi group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 282, provided a brief account including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 319, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Guo, Yang, and Li, 2009, Colored Illust. Amph. Rept. Taiwan: 88–89, provided a brief account, photographs, and map, as Rana fukienensis.

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