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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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Pulchrana Dubois, 1992

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Pulchrana

18 species

Pulchrana Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 326. Type species: Polypedates signatus Günther, 1872, by original designation. Proposed as a subgenus of Rana.

Pulchrana — Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 188. Treatment as a genus.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Southern Vietnam, Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Java, Borneo, Siberut Island, Sumatra, Singapore, Bangka Island, Natuna Islands, Sulu Archipelago, and the Philippines.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Hylarana by Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 188, where it had been placed by Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3. See comment under Hylarana for access to relevant revisionary literature. Brown and Guttman, 2002, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 76: 393-461, discussed the phylogenetics of the Rana signata complex (Pulchrana) of the Philippines and Borneo. Chan, Abraham, Grismer, and Brown, 2020, Raffles Bull. Zool., 68: 880–890, summarized the state of knowledge of the Pulchrana picturata group (Pulchrana sundabarat and Pulchrana picturata). Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 423, recovered Pulchrana as monophyletic, the sister of the bulk of their Chalcorana samples, but, presumably because of the nonmonophyly of other hylaranines, these authors placed Pulchrana into the synonymy of Hylarana.

Contained taxa (18 sp.):

Pulchrana banjarana (Leong and Lim, 2003)

Pulchrana baramica (Boettger, 1900)

Pulchrana centropeninsularis (Chan, Brown, Lim, Ahmad, and Grismer, 2014)

Pulchrana debussyi (Van Kampen, 1910)

Pulchrana fantastica Arifin, Cahyadi, Smart, Jankowski, and Haas, 2018

Pulchrana glandulosa (Boulenger, 1882)

Pulchrana grandocula (Taylor, 1920)

Pulchrana guttmani (Brown, 2015)

Pulchrana laterimaculata (Barbour and Noble, 1916)

Pulchrana mangyanum (Brown and Guttman, 2002)

Pulchrana melanomenta (Taylor, 1920)

Pulchrana moellendorffi (Boettger, 1893)

Pulchrana picturata (Boulenger, 1920)

Pulchrana rawa (Matsui, Mumpuni, and Hamidy, 2012)

Pulchrana siberu (Dring, McCarthy, and Whitten, 1990)

Pulchrana signata (Günther, 1872)

Pulchrana similis (Günther, 1873)

Pulchrana sundabarat Chan, Abraham, Grismer, and Brown, 2020

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