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* = "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.
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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"
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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 pseudodalmatina Eiselt and Schmidtler, 1971

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

Rana macrocnemis pseudodalmatina Eiselt and Schmidtler, 1971, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 75: 384. Holotype: NHMW 19790. 4, by original designation. Type locality: "Weyser (SW Chalus = Tschalus), 1150 m ü. d. M., Prov. Mazanderan", Iran.

Rana pseudodalmatina — Veith, Kosuch, and Vences, 2003, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 26: 325.

Rana (Rana) pseudodalmatina — Yuan, Zhou, Chen, Poyarkov, Chen, Jang-Liaw, Chou, Matzke, Iizuka, Min, Kuzmin, Zhang, Cannatella, Hillis, and Che, 2016, Syst. Biol., 65: 835.

Common Names

Hircanian Wood Frog (Safaei-Mahroo, Ghaffari, Fahimi, Broomand, Yazdanian, Najafi-Majd, Hosseinian Yousefkani, Rezazadeh, Hosseinzadeh, Nasrabadi, Mashayekhi, Motesharei, Naderi, and Kazemi, 2015, Asian Herpetol. Res., 6: 266).

Hyrcanian Frog (Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 97).

Distribution

Southwestern and southern margin of the Caspian Sea in the Hyrcanian forests of Iran (Mazandaran, Gilan, Golestan and Ardabil provinces), east to the District of Balkan, Turkmenistan, and north into southern Republic of Azerbaijan in the districts of Astara, Lenkoran, Lerik, Masally, Yardymly, and Jalilabad.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan

Comment

Veith, Kosuch, and Vences, 2003, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 26: 310-327, and Veith, Schmidtler, Kosuch, Baran, and Seitz, 2003, Mol. Ecol., 12: 185-199, provided evidence that Rana pseudodalmatina is distinct from Rana macrocnemis. Anderson, 1978, Herpetol. Rev., 9: 22, provided a record for Mazanderan Province in northern Iran and noted the more westerly records in Iran. Kami and Vakilpoure, 1996, Herpetol. Rev., 27: 150, provided a record for Ardabil Province, Iran, and commented on the range. Safaei-Mahroo, Ghaffari, Fahimi, Broomand, Yazdanian, Najafi-Majd, Hosseinian Yousefkani, Rezazadeh, Hosseinzadeh, Nasrabadi, Mashayekhi, Motesharei, Naderi, and Kazemi, 2015, Asian Herpetol. Res., 6: 257–290, reported on distribution and conservation status in Iran. Picariello, Safaei-Mahroo, and Chinali, 2018, Salamandra, 54: 269–277, provided satellite DNA evidence in support of the species status of this taxon. Najibzadeh, Gharzi, Rastegar-Pouyani, Rastegar-Pouyani, and Pesarakloo, 2018, Russ. J. Genet., 54: 1221–1228, reported on mtDNA geographic variation. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 97, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology, a range map, as well as a photograph. Kidov and Litvinchuk, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28: 97–107, discussed range, habitat, and conservation status in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Safaei-Mahroo, Ghaffari, and Niamir, 2023, Zootaxa, 5279: 1–112, provided for Iran an identification key including this species, photographs, habitat and conservation threats, a review of the literature, discussion of nomenclature and systematics, as well as dot and modeled distribution maps. Hosseinian Yousefkani, Shafiei Bafti, Rezazadeh Mashizi, and Moeinadini, 2024, North-West. J. Zool., Romania, 20(e242501): 85–89, discussed the possible effects of climate change on the range in Iran and provided a current dot map for that country.

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