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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
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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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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 japonica (Hallowell, 1861)

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

Ixalus japonicus Hallowell, 1861 "1860", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 12: 501. Syntypes: MCZ 2602 (exchanged from USNM according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 284), USNM 7313 (5 specimens) (according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 63). Type locality: "Japan"; corrected to "Amami-o-shima, Riu Kiu", Japan, by Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 157; given as "Ousima (Amami, Ryukyu Islands)", Japan by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 63.

Rana macropus Boulenger, 1886, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1886: 414. Replacement name for Ixalus japonicus Hallowell, 1861, preoccupied in Rana.

Polypedates japonicus — Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 155; Okada, 1931, Tailless Batr. Japan. Empire: 207.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) japonicus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 111; Inger, 1947, Fieldiana, Zool., 32: 346.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) buergeri japonicus — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 166.

Buergeria japonica — Liem, 1970, Fieldiana, Zool., 57: 90.

Rhacophorus japonicus — Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 65.

Common Names

Ryukyu Kajika Frog (Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 173; Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 111).

Japanese Buerger's Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111; Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 34).

Japanese Stream Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 248).

Distribution

Ryukyu Is, Japan, excluding Yaeyama group and Miyako Islands; southern and eastern Taiwan populations an associated but unnamed species.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Japan, Taiwan

Comment

See account (as Polypedates japonicus) by Okada, 1966, Fauna Japon., Anura: 178–182; see also Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 155, and (as Rhacophorus japonicus) Nakamura and Ueno, 1963, Japan. Rept. Amph. Color: 63–64. See Shibata and Matsui, 1985, Bull. Osaka Mus. Nat. Hist., 38: 1–4, and Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 19, for a discussion of nomenclatural confusion surrounding the name Rana macropus. Nishioka, Sumida, Ohta, and Suzuki, 1987, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 9: 53–96, reported on geographic variation in allozymes. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 248–249, provided a brief account of the Chinese population, a map, and figure. See Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 19, for a discussion of nomenclature and their interpretation of Article 59.3 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999). Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 170–173, provided an account for Japan. Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 111–113, provided an account, map, and photograph. Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 34–35, provided a brief account for Taiwan. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 656–660, provided an account for Taiwan and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 422, provided a brief account including photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 494–495, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for Taiwan. Tominaga, Matsui, Eto, and Ota, 2015, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 32: 240–247, reported on molecular biogeography. All records from eastern and southern Taiwan now apply to Buergeria otai. Guo, Yang, and Li, 2009, Colored Illust. Amph. Rept. Taiwan: 104–105, provided a brief account, photographs, and map. Matsui and Tominaga, 2020, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 39: 160–172, excluded records from the Yaeyama group of the Ryukyus to Buergeria choui. Kuroshima and Tominaga, 2021, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 40: 168–181, reported on larval development.

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