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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 zhenhaiensis Ye, Fei, and Matsui, 1995

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

Rana zhenhaiensis Ye, Fei, and Matsui, 1995, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, 4–5: 83–84. Holotype: CIB 940371, by original designation. Type locality: "Chaiquiao (29° 85′ N, 121° 91′ E), Zhenhai County, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, altitude 100 m", China.

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Eastern Hubei, central Henan, and southern Jiangxi south to northeastern Guangxi and southern Guangdong, eastern China.

Comment

This frog was formerly referred to Rana japonica. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 154–155, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Regarded as close to Rana chevronta and in the Rana japonica group by Xie, Fei, and Ye, 2000, Cultum Herpetol. Sinica, 8: 74–80. In the Rana longicrus group of Fei, Ye, Huang, Jiang, and Xie, 2005, in Fei et al. (eds.), Illust. Key Chinese Amph.: 105. Li, Lu, and Li, 2005, Sichuan J. Zool., 24: 268–270, provided a distribution map for China and doubted the published report for Heilongjiang Province. Li, Lu, Wang, Wang, Fang, and Li, 2005, Herpetol. Sinica, 10: 63–67, compared this species in northeastern China with Rana chensinensis, Rana dybowskii, Rana amurensis, Rana huanrenensis, and Rana kukunoris. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 3: 995–1000, provided an account for China and included it in their Rana longicrus group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 280–281, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Yan, Jiang, Chen, Fang, Jin, Li, Wang, Murphy, Che, and Zhang, 2011, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 2: 67, suggested on the basis of mtDNA evidence that populations from Fujian and Guangdong might be assignable to Rana longicrus. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 316–317, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Records for the Dabie Mountains of Anhui and Hubei (and possibly Henan) are referable to Rana culaiensis according to Zhao, Wang, Wang, Liu, and Lu, 2015, J. Henan Normal Univ. (Nat. Sci.), 46: 705–711. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 211–212, provided a detailed account for Hunan, China. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 40, provided a brief account for Guangdong, China, and photograph. Zhang, 2017, Amph. Rept. Fanjing Mts.: 110–113, provided taxonomic and natural history information for the Fanjing Mountains population in northeastern Guizhou, China.

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