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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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Rana asiatica Bedriaga, 1898

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Rana > Species: Rana asiatica

Rana temporaria var. asiatica Bedriaga, 1898, Wissenschaft. Result. Przewalski Cent. Asien Reisen, 3(1): 21, 23. Syntypes: Not stated; ZISP 928-930, 1056, 1063, 1257, and 1501 (22 specimens) considered syntypes by XXX; Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1000, reported only ZISP 1056, 1063, and 1257 (five specimens) as syntypes. Type locality: "Schan-shu-tschun (Prov. Kuku-Nor) und auf dem Tscha-Dschi bei Sini"; given as "Kansu; Ordos; Mongolia" by Gee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 28; given as "Kungess and Upper Ili River, Tien-shan, Xinjiang-Uigur Autonomous Region, China, and Ordos (erroneous), Inner Mongolia, and Bagagorgi River, tributary of the upper Chuanche River (Bailong Jiang?), Gansu Province, China", by Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 349.

Rana bachtyana Kashchenko, 1909, Annu. Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 14: 129. Types: ZISP. Type locality: Bachty, Semiryetchensk, Siberia, Russia [from the Russian]. Synonymy by Nikolskii, 1918, Fauna Rossii, Zemnovodnye: 63; Stejneger, 1925, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 66: 19; Orlova, Bakharev, and Borkin, 1977, Trudy Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Leningrad, 74: 86.

Rana asiatica — Nikolskii, 1914 "1912", Trudy Troitskosavsko-Kiakht. Otd. Obstsch., 15: 33; Stejneger, 1925, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 66: 19.

Rana arvalis var. asiatica — Fejérváry, 1919, Ann. Hist. Nat. Mus. Natl. Hungarici, 17: 181.

Rana asiatica asiatica — Terentjev, 1923, Zool. Anz., 56: 174, by implication.

Rana asiatica balchaschensis Terentjev, 1923, Zool. Anz., 56: 174. Holotype: ZMM A-464. Type locality: "Lac. Balchasch, Insula Tas-Aral [= Lake Balkhash, Tasaral Island (Tadaral, Taiaral)]", Dzhezkazgan District, Kazakhstan. Synonymy by Orlova, Bakharev, and Borkin, 1977, Trudy Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Leningrad, 74: 86

Rana asiatica issikkulensis Kaschkarov, 1923, Trans. Sci. Soc. Turkestan., Tashkent, 1: 221. Syntypes: 8 specimens, by original designation, deposition not stated. Type locality: Right bank of the Kutemaldinka River and near the station, enrivons of Rybachie Settlement, northwestern shore of Issyk-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan. Synonymy by Orlova, Bakharev, and Borkin, 1977, Trudy Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Leningrad, 74: 86; Dunayev and Orlova, 1994, Russ. J. Herpetol., 1: 64. Nomen nudum according to Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 349.

Rana amurensis balchaschensis — Terentjev and Chernov, 1936, Brief Guide Amph. Rept. USSR: 20.

Rana chensinensis balchaschensis — Terentjev and Chernov, 1940, Kratikii Opredelitel' Presmyka iushchisksia i Zemnovodnykh CCCP: 44.

Rana amurensis asiatica — Orlova, Bakharev, and Borkin, 1977, Trudy Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Leningrad, 74: 81–103.

Rana (Rana) asiatica — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41, by implication; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333; Yuan, Zhou, Chen, Poyarkov, Chen, Jang-Liaw, Chou, Matzke, Iizuka, Min, Kuzmin, Zhang, Cannatella, Hillis, and Che, 2016, Syst. Biol., 65: 835.

Rana (Laurasiarana) asiatica — Hillis and Wilcox, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 34: 311, by implication; see Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 317–330, and Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 331–338, for discussion.

English Names

Asian Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).

Wood Frog (Liu, 1931, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 5: 53; Boring, Liu, and Chou, 1932, Handb. N. China, Amph. Rept.: 33).

Central Asian Frog (Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 349).

Central Asian Brown Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 154).

Distribution

Southern Kazakhstan (north to Lake Balkhash) through Kyrgyzstan to central Xinjiang (China).

Comment

In the Section Rana, subgenus Rana, Rana temporaria group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333. In the Rana chensinensis group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 107. Often confused with Rana amurensis and Rana chensinensis according to Borkin, 1985, In Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 482. Removed from the synonymy of Rana temporaria chensenensis (Rana chensenensis of this list) by : Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41; by implication, and Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333, where it had been placed by Pope and Boring, 1940, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 15: 57. See accounts by Kuzmin, 1999, Amph. Former Soviet Union: 349–354; Kuzmin, 2013, Amph. Former Soviet Union, Ed. 2: 212–215 (for the former USSR), and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 154–155. Regarded as close to Rana amurensis by Xie, Fei, and Ye, 2000, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 8: 74–80. Sumida, Ueda, and Nishioka, 2003, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 20: 567–580, reported on molecular phylogenetic relationships and reproductive incompatability of this species with other brown frogs in East Asia. Li, Lu, and Li, 2005, Sichuan J. Zool., 24: 268–270, provided a distribution map for China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 1000–1004, provided an account for China and included it in their Rana asiatica group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 262–263, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 296, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China.

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