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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.
* = "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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Wijayarana masonii (Boulenger, 1884)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Wijayarana > Species: Wijayarana masonii

Rana Masonii Boulenger, 1884, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 13: 397. Holotypes: BMNH 1947.2.4.2 (originally numbered 1884.3.25.4), according to Stuart and Chan-ard, 2005, Copeia, 2005: 280, and museum records. Type locality: "near Batavia [now Jakarta]", Java, Indonesia.

Hylorana massoni — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 144. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Huia masonii — Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 63.

"Huia" masonii — Stuart, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 54. See comment.

Meristogenys masonii — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 422.

Wijayarana masonii — Arifin, Chan, Smart, Hertwig, Smith, Iskandar, and Haas, 2021, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 193: 689.

Common Names

Javan Torrent Frog (Huia masonii: Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 63).

Distribution

Western and central Java, along high gradient streams, 50–1200 m elevation, Indonesia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Indonesia

Endemic: Indonesia

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Meristogenys jerboa by Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 62 (who provided an account), where it had been placed by Boulenger, 1893, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, Ser. 2, 13: 335; Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 196; Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 208; Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 382. Redescribed and discussed by Stuart and Chan-ard, 2005, Copeia, 2005: 280–282. Bossuyt, Brown, Hillis, Cannatella, and Milinkovitch, 2006, Syst. Biol., 55: 579–594, found this species to be closely related to Meristogenys ; Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 1–13, implied that this placement suggested that Huia is polyphyletic. Stuart, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 54, considered this taxon to be in a clade composed of Meristogenys, Clinotarsus, and Odorrana and preferred not to place this taxon prior to phylogenetic analysis. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 479. See brief account by Amin, 2020, Frogs of East Java: 20–22. Idrus, Arroyyan, Bahri, and Hamidy, 2021, J. Biodjati, 6: 1–10, reported on comparative morphometrics. Badriah, Wahyuni, Usman, Mahrawi, Ratnasari, and Rifqiawati, 2022, Berkala Ilmiah Biologi, 13 (3): 1–8, reported specimens from Ujong Kulon National Park, extreme western Java, Indonesia.

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