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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.
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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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Ghatixalus variabilis (Jerdon, 1853)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Ghatixalus > Species: Ghatixalus variabilis

Polypedates variabilis Jerdon, 1853, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 22: 532. Type: Not stated, though presumably in the ZSIC; reported as lost by Jerdon, 1870, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1870: 67; considered lost by Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 13, who designated IRSNB 1918 as neotype and redescribed it on page 63. BMNH 1852.12.11.12 (now 1947.2.8.53) and 1933.9.10.17–18 (and 1947.2.7.74–75) are recorded in museum records as syntypes something which needs confirmation and possibly obviates the neotype designation (DRF). Type locality: "Neelgherries in the banks of streams and shrubs", South India. Neotype is from "Botanical Gardens, Udhagamangalam ('Ootacamund', 'Ooty') (11° 24′ N, 76° 42′ E), Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, India". Synonymy by Günther, 1871, Zool. Rec., 7: 77.

Polypedates pleurostictus Günther, 1864, Rept. Brit. India: 430. Syntypes: BMNH (3 specimens) by original designation and Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 80; BMNH 1947.2.7.74-75 and 1947.2.8.53 according to Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 19, who designated as lectotype BMNH 1947.2.8.53 (formerly 1852.12.11.12) and described it on page 69. Type locality: "Madras Presidency", India. Synonymy by Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 12. Synonymy doubted by Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 19.

Rhacophorus pleurostictus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 79. Daniel and Sekar, 1989, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 86: 200.

Rhacophorus parkeri Ahl, 1927, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1927: 38. Holotype: ZMB 10142 according to Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 45. Type locality: "Malabar", India. Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 8, noted the imprecision of this type locality. Provisional synonymy by Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 14, who noted that the holotype may have originally been in the BMNH. This synonymy doubted by Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 19.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) pleurostictus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 123.

Rhacophorus (Philautus) parkeri — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 81.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) buergeri pleurostictus — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 173.

Philautus parkeri — Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 531.

Philautus (Kirtixalus) pleurostictus — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 73.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) variabilis — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 13.

Ghatixalus variabilis — Biju, Roelants, and Bossuyt, 2008, Organisms Divers. Evol., 8: 269.

English Names

Green Tree Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 91).

Parker's Bubble-nest Frog (Philautus parkeri [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 112).

Parker's Bush Frog (Philautus parkeri [no longer recognized]: Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66).

Indian Bubble-nest Frog (Rhacophorus pleurostictus [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 112).

Zamorin Tree Frog (Rhacophorus pleurostictus [no longer recognized]: Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67).

Green Frog of the Neelgherries (Polypedates variabilis: Jerdon, 1853, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 22: 532).

Green Tree Frog (Rhacophorus pleurostictus [no longer recognized]: Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 178).

Spotted Green Tree Frog (Rhacophorus pleurostictus [no longer recognized]: Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 175).

Distribution

North of the Palakkad Gap in the Nilgiri Hills and Camel's Hump Hills of Kerala, India.

Comment

See account (as Rhacophorus pleurostictus) by Daniel and Sekar, 1989, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 86: 200. Brief accounts provided by Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 164 (as Philautus parkeri) and page 178 (as Rhacophorus pleurostictus). Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 175, provided an account (as Rhacophorus pleurostictus). Biju, Roelants, and Bossuyt, 2008, Organisms Divers. Evol., 8: 267–276, transferred this species into Ghatixalus and discussed its systematics. A very brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 116. Sivaprasad, 2013, Common Amph. Kerala: 150–151, provided a brief account, photograph, and dot map for Kerala, India. Note that with the naming of Ghatixalus magnus from the southern Western Ghats by Abraham, Mathew, Cyriac, Zachariah, Raju, and Zachariah, 2015, Zootaxa, 4048: 101–113, renders at least some of the earlier publications relevant to Ghatixalus magnus. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted two larval descriptions in the literature (as Rhacophorus pleurostictus).

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