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* = "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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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 xerampelina Peters, 1854

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

Chiromantis xerampelina Peters, 1854, Ber. Bekannt. Verhandl. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1854: 627. Syntypes: ZMB 6593, 6594 (4 specimens), according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 50. Type locality: "Tette und Sena", Mozambique.

Chiromantis umbelluzianus Ferreira, 1920, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, Ser. 3, 2: 205. Holotype: MBL 12-144 according to Perret, 1976, Arq. Mus. Bocage, Ser. 2, 6: 21; destroyed in 1978 fire. Type locality: "ponte do Umbelluzi, distrito de Lourenço Marques, a 50 quilómetros da costa"; given as "Rio Umbeluzi, District de Maputo, Mozambique" by Perret, 1976, Arq. Mus. Bocage, Ser. 2, 6: 21. Synonymy by Loveridge, 1953, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 110: 329.

Chiromantis microglossus Ahl, 1929, Zool. Anz., 80: 34. Holotype: ZMB unnumbered in original publication. Type locality: "Damara". Synonymy by Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 157; Mertens, 1971, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 529: 7.

English Names

African Gray Treefrog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 168).

Large Grey Tree Frog (Rose, 1962, Rep. Amph. S. Afr., Ed. 2: 104).

Grey Tree Frog (Pienaar, 1963, Koedoe, 6: 80; Wager, 1965, Frogs S. Afr.: 182; Broadley, 1971, Puku, 6: 119; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 202).

Grey Treefrog (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 16).

Foam Nest Frog (Passmore and Carruthers, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 19: 6; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 202).

Foam Nest Treefrog (Van Dijk, 1978, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 17: 16).

Foam Nest Tree Frog (Van den Elzen, 1980, Rev. Fr. Aquar. Herpetol., 7: Insert page 1).

Southern Foam Nest Tree Frog (Broadley, 1973, J. Herpetol. Assoc. Afr., 10: 23; Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 202).

Great African Grey Tree Frog (Passmore and Carruthers, 1979, S. Afr. Frogs: 202).

Grey Foam-nest Frog (Lambiris, 1990 "1989", Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 10: 139).

African Gray Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111).

Southern Foam-nest Frog (Boycott and Theron, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 331; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 458).

Distribution

Savannas of coastal southeastern Kenya, southwestern Angola (see comment) and northeastern Namibia south to KwaZulu-Natal, Rep. South Africa, northern Mozambique and western and southwestern Botswana and adjacent Rep. South Africa; likely in Somalia and extreme southern Dem. Rep. Congo.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Likely/Controversially Present: Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Somalia

Comment

Discussed by Poynton, 1964, Ann. Natal Mus., 17: 157–158, Lambiris, 1988, Lammergeyer, 39: 119, and Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 375–378. See also account by Van den Elzen, 1980, Rev. Fr. Aquar. Herpetol., 7: 2 p. (who suggested that the species extended to southern Somalia). Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 38–39, provided a brief account. Boycott and Theron, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 331–333, Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 339–341, Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 296–299, and Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 458–459, provided an account. Mercurio, 2011, Amph. Malawi: 301–303, provided an account for Malawi. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 369–371, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Harper, Measey, Patrick, Menegon, and Vonesh, 2010, Field Guide Amph. E. Arc Mts. Tanzania and Kenya: 294–295, provided a brief account and photograph. Ohler and Frétey, 2014, J. E. Afr. Nat. Hist., 103: 103–104, provided a brief discussion of a collection from northern Mozambique. Conradie, Bittencourt-Silva, Engelbrecht, Loader, Menegon, Nanvonamuquitxo, Scott, and Tolley, 2016, Zoosyst. Evol., Berlin, 92: 163–180, reported a population from Mount M'pàluwé, Nampula Province, Mozambique. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 162, provided a map for Angola and brief discussion of the literature. Baptista, Conradie, Vaz Pinto, and Branch, 2019, In Huntley, Russo, Lages, and Ferrand (eds.), Biodiversity in Angola: 258, suggested that the record for southwestern Angola required confirmation. Phaka, Netherlands, Kruger, and Du Preez, 2017, Bilingual Field Guide Frogs Zululand: 75, provided a photograph, Zululand regional map, and a brief account of life history and identification. See Bittencourt-Silva, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (2: e181): 13, for comment on population in western Zambia. Spawls, Wasonga, and Drewes, 2019, Amph. Kenya: 49, 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.

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