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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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Walkerana leptodactyla (Boulenger, 1882)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranixalidae > Genus: Walkerana > Species: Walkerana leptodactyla

Polypedates brevipalmatus Günther, 1876 "1875", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1875: 572. Syntypes: BMNH (several specimens), by original designation, these being BMNH 1874.4.29.503–509, 1874.4.29.592–595, and 1874.4.29.597 (now renumbered 1947.2.8.16) by museum records. BMNH 1947.2.29.39 (former number unknown) designated lectotype by Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9239. Type locality: "Malabar" and "Anamallays" (= Anamallais), India. Lectotype from "Malabar", India; considered to be "Eravikulam National Park (10.145° N, & 77.038° E, elevation 1940 m" by Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9239. Secondary homonym of Rana brevipalmata Peters, 1871.

Rana leptodactyla Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 57. Replacement name for Polypedates brevipalmatus Günther, 1987 "1875". Subsequently confused by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 118.

Rana (Discodeles) leptodactyla — Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 98; Daniel and Sekar, 1989, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 86: 194.

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

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

Indirana leptodactyla — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 175–176.

Walkerana leptodactyla — Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9239; Dubois, 2017, Zootaxa, 4237: 1–16.

Sallywalkerana leptodactyla — Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9381.

English Names

Boulenger'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: 86).

Long-toed Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 64).

Thin-limbed Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 120).

Slender-toed Leaping Frog (Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9239; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 11).

Distribution

Southern Western Ghats of southern India; known from Agasthyamala Hills, Kalakkad-Mundanthuai, Athirimala, Periyar Tiger Reserve, and Eravikulam National Park in Kerala, and the Anamalai Hills of Parambikulam and Indira Gandi National Park in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, above 800 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

See account by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 118. Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 15, suggested that that at least one undescribed species in the Western Ghats had been referred to this taxon. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 120–121, provided a brief account (as Rana leptodactyla). Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 123–124, provided range, systematic comments, and a taxonomic bibliography. 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: 480. A very brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 110. Sivaprasad, 2013, Common Amph. Kerala: 136–137, provided a brief account, photograph, and dot map for Kerala, India. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted a few larval descriptions in the literature, of varying completeness. Dahanukar, Modak, Krutha, Nameer, Padhye, and Molur, 2016, J. Threatened Taxa, 8: 9239–9243, provided an extensive account. See brief account by Garg and Biju, 2016, PLoS One, 11(11:e0166326): 27–28.

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