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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 mongolius (Schmidt, 1925)

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

Rana nigromaculata mongolia Schmidt, 1925, Am. Mus. Novit., 175: 1. Holotype: AMNH 18149, by original designation. Type locality: "Mai Tai Chao [= Tumd Zuoqi], northern Shansi [now part of Nei Mongol Autonomous Region]", China.

Rana tenggerensis Zhao, Macey, and Papenfuss, 1988, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 2: 1. Holotype: CIB 80001, by original designation. Type locality: "along the north shore of the Yellow River (Huang He), at Shapatou Desert Research Station, Shapotou (37° 30′N 104° 58′E), Yinnan Prefecture, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China". Synonymy by Dufresnes and Litvinchuk, 2022, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 195: 728, and Zhou, He, Ma, Xu, Zhai, Guan, Wang, and Shi, 2022, Zootaxa, 5165: 486.

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

Pelophylax tenggerensis — 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.

Pelophylax mongolius — Dufresnes and Litvinchuk, 2022, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 195: 728 (25 June 2022); Zhou, He, Ma, Xu, Zhai, Guan, Wang, and Shi, 2022, Zootaxa, 5165: 486 (17 July 2022).

Pelophylax mongolicus — Zhou, He, Ma, Xu, Zhai, Guan, Wang, and Shi, 2022, Zootaxa, 5165: 486. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

English Names

Yellow River Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 109).

Distribution

Known from the provinces of Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, and Shaanxi, China.

Comment

Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 230, did not mention Rana tenggerensis, implying synonymy with Rana nigromaculata. Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 305–352, and Dubois and Ohler, 1996 "1994", Zool. Polon., 39: 178–179, also did not mention Rana tenggerensis. Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 146, treated Rana nigromaculata mongolia as a synonym of Rana nigromaculata but retained Rana tenggerensis as distinct. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Rana tenggerensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 513. Dufresnes and Litvinchuk, 2022, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 195: 728, discussed the taxon and its molecular markers and provided the older name Pelophylax mongolius for Pelophylax teggerensis as did Zhou, He, Ma, Xu, Zhai, Guan, Wang, and Shi, 2022, Zootaxa, 5165: 486–500, a couple of weeks later, as well as providing a distribution map, discussion of morphology, and molecular markers (placing this species as the sister of Pelophylax fukienensis.

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