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* = "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
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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 sauteri Boulenger, 1909

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

Rana sauteri Boulenger, 1909, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 4: 493. Syntypes: BMNH (5 specimens), by original designation, these being BMNH 1947.2.1.24–28 (formerly 1909.10.29.42–46) by museum records. Type locality: "Kanshirei Village, altitude about 2000 feet ", Taiwan, China.

Rana (Hylorana) sauteri — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 124.

Rana (Hylarana) sauteri — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42, by implication.

Pseudorana sauteri sauteri — Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 138; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 233.

Rana (Pseudorana) sauteri — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333.

Amolops (Pseudoamolops) sauteri — Jiang, Fei, Ye, Zeng, Zhen, Xie, and Chen, 1997, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 6–7: 74.

Rana multidenticulata Chou and Lin, 1997, Zool. Stud., Taipei, 36: 222–229. Holotype: NMNS 2802, by original designation. Type locality: "Dayuling, Taichung Co[unty]., Taiwan (2560 m, 24 11 02 N, 121 18 17 E)". Synonymy by Hsu, Lin, Wu, and Tsai, 2011, Herpetol. J., 21: 169.

Rana multidentata — Glaw, Köhler, Lötters, and Vences, 1998, Elaphe, 6: xxii. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Pseudoamolops sauteri — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2000, Acta Zool. Sinica, 46: 23, 25.

Pseudoamolops multidenticulatus — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2000, Acta Zool. Sinica, 46: 23, 25.

Rana multidenticulata — 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: 370.

Rana sauteri — 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: 370; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1–13.

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

English Names

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

Taiwan Groove-toed Frog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 170).

Sauter's Brown Frog (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 84).

Taiwan Pseudotorrent Frog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 393).

Multidenticulate Pseudotorrent Frog (Rana multidentata [no longer recognized]: Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 392).

Sauter's Frog (Guo, Yang, and Li, 2009, Colored Illust. Amph. Rept. Taiwan: 98).

Distribution

Mountains and hills of Taiwan, 170–2500 m elevation.

Comment

Chou and Lin, 1997, Zool. Stud., Taipei, 36: 222–229, reported on external adult and larval morphology and advertisement call, as Rana multidenticulata. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 402–403, provided accounts (as Pseudoamolops sauteri: 402–403; and Pseudoamolops multidenticulatus: 404), photographs, and range maps. Guo, Yang, and Li, 2009, Colored Illust. Amph. Rept. Taiwan: 98–99, provided a brief account, photographs, and map.

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