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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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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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Sanguirana luzonensis (Boulenger, 1896)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Sanguirana > Species: Sanguirana luzonensis

Rana luzonensis Boulenger, 1896, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 17: 401. Syntypes: BMNH (4 specimens), by original designation, these being BMNH 1947.2.1.1–4 (formerly 1895.9.10.10–13) according to museum records. Type locality: "Highlands of Lepauto [= Lepanto], N. Luzon", Philippines. Synonymy by Taylor, 1922, Philipp. J. Sci., 21: 259; Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 304–305.

Rana (Hylorana) luzonensis — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 127–130.

Rana guerreroi Taylor, 1920, Philipp. J. Sci., 16: 255. Holotype: EHT 881, by original designation; probably now CM according to Taylor, 1944, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30: 138, although not located in CM, USNM, FMNH, KU, or AMNH by Brown, McGuire, and Diesmos, 2000, Herpetologica, 56: 81–104. Type locality: "Baguio, Mountain Province, Luzon", Philippines. Synonymy with Rana luzonensis by Taylor, 1922, Philipp. J. Sci., 21: 259; Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 304–305 (under Rana everetti luzonensis); Brown, McGuire, and Diesmos, 2000, Herpetologica, 56: 81–104.

Rana tafti Taylor, 1922, Philipp. J. Sci., 21: 265. Holotype: EHT 1849, by original designation; now CAS 61819 according to Slevin and Leviton, 1956, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 28: 537. Type locality: "mountains near the Pacific coast of Luzon on the trail between Famy, Laguna Province, and Infanta, Tayabas Province", Luzon, Philippines. Synonymy with Rana everetti by Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 304–305, tentatitvely with Rana luzonensis by Brown, McGuire, and Diesmos, 2000, Herpetologica, 56: 86.

Rana everetti luzonensis — Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 304.

Rana (Rana) luzonensis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41–42, by implication.

Rana (Chalcorana) luzonensis — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 328.

Rana luzonensis — Brown, McGuire, and Diesmos, 2000, Herpetologica, 56: 86.

Hydrophylax luzonensis — 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: 368.

Hylarana luzonensis — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1–13, by implication.

Chalcorana luzonensis — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 33. See comment under Ranidae record.

Sanguirana luzonensis — Fuiten, Welton, Diesmos, Barley, Oberheide, Duya, Rico, and Brown, 2011, Herpetologica, 67: 91.

Common Names

Luzon Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 108).

Distribution

High-gradient streams in rainforest on Luzon as well as several associated islands, Philippines.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Philippines

Endemic: Philippines

Comment

See discussion by Brown, McGuire, and Diesmos, 2000, Herpetologica, 56: 81–104. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Rana luzonensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 633. Fuiten, Welton, Diesmos, Barley, Oberheide, Duya, Rico, and Brown, 2011, Herpetologica, 67: 99, suggested that the biogeographic distribution of nominal Sanguirana luzonensis warranted careful systematic evaluation.

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