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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"
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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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Indirana beddomii (Günther, 1876)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranixalidae > Genus: Indirana > Species: Indirana beddomii

Polypedates beddomii Günther, 1876 "1875", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1875: 571. Syntypes: BMNH (some of which are referable to Indirana brachytarsus, according to Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 423); syntypes include BMNH 1947.2.27.73, 1947.2.27.82, and 1947.2.27.84 according to Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 121. BMNH 1947.2.27.72 designated lectotype by Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9259. Type locality: "in Malabar and Travancore, in the Anamallays [= Anamallai] and at Sevagherry [= Sivagiri]", Kerala, India. Type locality restricted to "Pervannamuzhi, Malar Wildlife Sanctuary (11.599° N & 75.819° E, elevation 38 m)" by Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9259.

Rana beddomii — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 55.

Rana (Discodeles) beddomi — Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 1: 238.

Indirana beddomii — Laurent, 1986, in Grassé and Delsol (eds.), Traite de Zool., 14: 761.

Ranixalus beddomii — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 69.

Indirana beddomii — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 175.

Rana (Discodeles) beddomii — Daniel and Sekar, 1989, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 86: 194.

Common Names

Beddome's Indian Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 99; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 83).

Beddome's Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64).

Beddome's Leaping Frog (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 191; Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9259).

Malabar Leaping Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 11).

Distribution

Known north of Palghat gap at Kakkayam, Settukunnu and Suganthagiri; and south of Palghat gap at Sairandhri (Silent Valley), Kuddam (Siruvani) and Pattiar (Siruvani), Kerala, and presumably in adjacent border areas of Tamil Nadu, India.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

See account (with Rana brachytarsus in synonymy) by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 114. See accounts (as Rana beddomi) by Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1984, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 422, and Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 89. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 121–122, provided range, systematic comments on misidentifications in the literature, and a taxonomic bibliography. Kadadevaru, Kanamadi, and Schneider, 2000, Amphibia-Reptilia, 21: 242–246, reported on the advertisement call. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 191–193, provided an account. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted a few larval descriptions in the literature, or varying completeness. Nair, Gopalan, Sanil, Kumar, Shikano, and Merilä, 2013, Conserv. Genetics, 13: 1459–1467, reported on molecular phylogeography that recovered a strong genetic break associated with the Shencottah Gap. A very brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 105. See account by Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9259, who placed this in their Indirana beddomii group. See brief account by Garg and Biju, 2016, PLoS One, 11(11:e0166326): 1–36, who (p. 28) suggested that this taxon may represent a species complex. Sreekumar and Dinesh, 2020, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 120: 33–40, noted that records from Maharashtra, India, are in error. Raj, Vasudevan, Aggarwal, Dutta, Sahoo, Mahapatra, Sharma, Janani, Kar, and Dubois, 2023, Alytes, 39–40: 94–99, reported (as Indirana cf. beddomii) on larval morphology of specimens from Kerala, India.

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