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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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Wijayarana melasma (Stuart and Chan-ard, 2005)

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

Huia melasma Stuart and Chan-ard, 2005, Copeia, 2005: 284. Holotype: FMNH 215970, by original designation. Type locality: "Thailand, Kanchanaburi Province, Tham Tarn Lot (= Chalerm Rattanakosin) National Park, from a rocky stream".

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

"Huia" melasma — Stuart, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 54. see comment.

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

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

Common Names

Spotted-snout Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 53).

Siamese Cascade Frog (Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 332).

Distribution

Kanchanaburi, Prachuap Kirikhan, and Chiang Mai Provinces in western and northern Thailand; Karen Hillis, of Myanmar; Vieng Phou Kha District, Louangnamtha Province, in northern Laos; and Xishuangban Prefecture, southern Yunnan, China.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand

Comment

Most similar to Huia nasica according to the original publication. Stuart, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 46: 49–60, 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. Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Amph. E. Region Thailand: 142, detailed the range in Thailand. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 332–333, provided a brief account (description, photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). Makchai, Chuaynkern, Safoowong, Chuachat, and Cota, 2020, Amph. N. Thailand: 129, provided a brief account, photographs, and a range map for Thailand. Arifin, Chan, Smart, Hertwig, Smith, Iskandar, and Haas, 2021, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 193: 689, reported the species from Laos. Wu, Huang, Wu, Liu, Che, and Yuan, 2023, Asian Herpetol. Res., 14: 116–120, provided records for Yunnan, China, and discussed the range. Sánchez-Vialas, Copete-Mosquera, and Calvo-Revuelta, 2024, Zootaxa, 5457: 18–20, reported a specimen (MNCN 3737) from the Karen Hillis of Myanmar and discussed the range; the authors noted that this specimen had previously been misidentified as Odorrana nasica. Stuart, Seateun, Sivongxay, and Phimmachak, 2025 "2024", in Wildlife Lao PDR: 42, summarized literature, taxonomy, habitat, and detailed range for Laos.

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