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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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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
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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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Chiromantis kelleri Boettger, 1893

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Chiromantis > Species: Chiromantis kelleri

Chiromantis kelleri Boettger, 1893, Zool. Anz., 16: 131. Syntypes: SMF (2 specimens) by original designation; SMF 7001 designated lectotype by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 46. Type locality: "Im Inneren der Somalisteppen häufig, besonders am Steppensee bei Laku und im Lande der Abdallah nördlich vom Webithal", Ethiopia. Synonymy by Parker, 1932, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1932: 366.

Hylambates enantiodactylus Calabresi, 1916, Monit. Zool. Ital., 27: 36. Types: MZUF. Type locality: "Bardera", Somalia. "Will doubtlessly be demonstrated to be a Chiromantis. . . " according to Noble, 1924, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 49: 322. Synonymy with Chiromantis petersii kelleri by Parker, 1932, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1932: 366. Synonymy by Lanza, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 172.

Chiromantis macrops Ahl, 1929, Zool. Anz., 80: 29. Holotype: ZMB unnumbered in the original publication; ZMB 26907 according to Poynton, 2000, Afr. J. Herpetol., 49: 118. Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 348, considers ZMB 26907, 57999-58000 as syntypes. Type locality: "Ganda Ali, Annia Galla und Arussi Galla", Tanzania. Synonymy by Loveridge, 1933, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 74: 391; Parker, 1932, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1932: 366; Poynton, 2000, Afr. J. Herpetol., 49: 120.

Leptopelis enantiodactylus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 220.

Chiromantis petersii kelleri — Parker, 1932, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1932: 366.

Chiromantis kelleri — Poynton, 2000, Afr. J. Herpetol., 49: 111-128.

Common Names

Keller's Foam-nest Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 335).

Distribution

Savannas of southeastern South Sudan, and lowland eastern and southern Ethiopia and Somalia into Kenya, below 1600 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia

Likely/Controversially Present: South Sudan

Comment

See comment under Chiromantis petersii. Removed from the synonymy of Chiromantis petersii by Poynton, 2000, Afr. J. Herpetol., 49: 111-128, where it had been placed by Parker, 1932, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1932: 366. Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 348-349, commented on distribution. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 335-336, provided an account. See account, photograph, and map for Ethiopia by Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 211. Spawls, Wasonga, and Drewes, 2019, Amph. Kenya: 50, provided a photograph, range map, and brief characterization. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 210–211, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Spawls, Mazuch, and Mohammad, 2023, Handb. Amph. Rept. NE Afr.: 130–131, provided an account addressing identification, natural history, conservation status, and range, including a polygon map for Somalia, Ethiopia and South Sudan.

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