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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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Feihyla palpebralis (Smith, 1924)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Feihyla > Species: Feihyla palpebralis

Philautus palpebralis Smith, 1924, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1924: 233. Holotype: BMNH (formerly M. Smith 2589, by original designation), this now 1947.2.8.14 (formerly 1924.1.31.2) according to museum records. Type locality: "Langbian Peaks, alt. 2000 m., S. Annam", Vietnam.

Rhacophorus (Chirixalus) palpebralis — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 56, 105.

Chirixalus palpebralis — Bourret, 1939, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1939: 60; Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 23; Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 44.

Philautus palpebralis — Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 274; Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 531; Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 65; Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 176; Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 154.

Feihyla palpebralis — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 246; Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020, Zootaxa, 4878: 24.

Chiromantis palpebralis — Grosjean, Delorme, Dubois, and Ohler, 2008, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 46: 174.

Aquixalus palpebralis — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 699. See comment under Philautus.

Common Names

Vietnamese Bubble-nest Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 33).

Vietnamese Bubble-nest Frog (Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020, Zootaxa, 4878: 24).

Annamite Jelly-nest Treefrog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 54).

Distribution

Tam Dao, north of Hanoi, in Vietnam; also found on the Langbian Peaks area of southern Vietnam (type locality); expected in intervening northern Vietnam and adjacent Laos. See comment regarding Chinese records

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Vietnam

Likely/Controversially Present: China, People's Republic of, Laos

Comment

See account by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 474–475, and Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 275–277 (as Philautus palpebralis). Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 193–195, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 256–257, provided accounts (as Philautus palpebralis). See comments by Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 23–24. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 104–105, provided a brief account (as Philautus palpebralis) for Yunnan, China. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Chirixalus palpebralis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 634. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 699–703, provided an account (as Aquixalus palpebralis) for China and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 437, provided a brief account (as Aquixalus palpebralis) including photographs of specimens. See comments by Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Sivaperuman, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020, Zootaxa, 4878: 24, suggested that records from China (Yunnan [Hekou and Pingbian counties] and extreme western Guizhou) are based on misidentified Feihyla fuhua. Vassilieva, 2023, Zootaxa, 5351: 293–300, reported on larval chondrocranial and external morphology as well as their natural history.

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