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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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Buergeria buergeri (Temminck and Schlegel, 1838)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Buergeriinae > Genus: Buergeria > Species: Buergeria buergeri

Hyla bürgeri Temminck and Schlegel, 1838, Fauna Japonica, 3: 113. Syntypes: Not stated, but clearly including animals figured on pl. 3, fig. 7, 8 of the original publication. Incuding RMNH 1692 (2 specimens) according to M.S. Hoogmoed In Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 537. Type locality: "Japon".

Buergeria subversicolor Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 34, 75. Substitute name for Hyla bürgeri Temminck and Schlegel, 1838.

Polypedates bürgeri — Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 521.

Hyla mackloti Schlegel In Lichtenstein and Martens, 1856, Nomencl. Rept. Amph. Mus. Zool. Berol.: 37. nomen nudum. Synonymy by Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 125.

Polypedates burgeri — Hallowell, 1861 "1860", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 12: 501. Incorrect subsequent spelling. Based on specimens of Chirixalus eiffingeri, according to Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 153.

Polypedates mackloti Peters, 1871, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1871: 650. Holotype: ZMB 3157, by original designation. Type locality: "Java", although this suggested to be in error by Bauer, 2016, in Das and Tuen (eds.), Nat. Explor. Field Sci. SE Asia Australasia: 96. (Formal description of "Hyla mackloti Schlegel".) Synonymy by Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 125.

Rana mackloti — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 72.

Rana buergeri — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 73.

Rhacophorus buergeri — Boulenger, 1888, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1888: 205.

Polypedates buergeri — Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 150; Okada, 1927, Copeia, 158: 163; Okada, 1931, Tailless Batr. Japan. Empire: 203.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) buergeri — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 125.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) buergeri buergeri — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 165.

Buergeria buergeri — Liem, 1970, Fieldiana, Zool., 57: 90, by implication.

Common Names

Kajika Frog (Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 169; Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 109).

Buerger's Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111).

Distribution

Along mountain streams of Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku Is., Japan.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Japan

Endemic: Japan

Comment

See account (as Polypedates buergeri) by Okada, 1966, Fauna Japon., Anura: 172-178. See also Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 150-153. See Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 387-389, for discussion of the former subspecies of Rhacophorus buergeri in the sense of Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 137-217. Ueda, Hasegawa, and Marunouchi, 1998, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 15: 615-622, presented evidence that at least two species exist in Japan (northern Honshu/Aomori and southwestern Honshu/Hiroshima) under this one name. Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 166-169, provided an account, and suggested a close relationship with Buergeria robusta and Buergeria oxycephalus. Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 109-111, provided an account, map, and photograph. Nishizawa, Kurabayashi, Kunihara, Sano, Fujii, and Sumida, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 139-147, reported on the mtDNA phylogenetics of the genus and documented three distinctive haplotype regions (Eastern, Central, and Western Japan) that may correspond to species.

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