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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
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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Gracixalus gracilipes (Bourret, 1937)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Gracixalus > Species: Gracixalus gracilipes

Philautus gracilipes Bourret, 1937, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1937: 6, 52. Holotype: MNHNP 1948.156 (formerly LSNUH B167), according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 51. Type locality: "Chapa" (= Sa Pa, Lao Cai Province), Tonkin [Vietnam].

Philautus (Philautus) gracilipes — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 48.

Chirixalus gracilipes — Bain and Nguyen, 2004, Am. Mus. Novit., 3453: 11–12.

Aquixalus (Gracixalus) gracilipes — Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2005, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 74: 166.

Gracixalus gracilipes — Li, Che, Bain, Zhao, and Zhang, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 48: 310.

Aquixalus gracilipes — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 689. See comment under Philautus.

Common Names

Chapa Bubble-nest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 112).

Black Eye-lidded Small Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 256).

Yellow and Black-spotted Tree Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 148).

Slender-legged Bushfrog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 148).

Distribution

Isolated populations in northern Vietnam (Hoang Lien Mountains in Lai Chau, Lao Cai, Ha Giang, and Yen Bai provinces, 1500–2500 m); adjacent extreme southern Yunnan, southern Guangxi, and extreme western Guangdong, China; northwestern Thailand (Chiang Mai) and presumably in adjacent Laos and Myanmar.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Thailand, Vietnam

Likely/Controversially Present: Laos, Myanmar

Comment

See accounts by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 461–462; Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 274–275; Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 190–191; and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 254–257. Recorded for Thailand by Khonsue and Thirakhupt, 2001, Nat. Hist. J. Chulalongkorn Univ., 1: 77, and Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 148; this requires confirmation. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 93, commented on the Vietnamese distribution. Bain and Nguyen, 2004, Am. Mus. Novit., 3453: 22–24, provided the record for Ha Giang Province, Vietnam, and discussed the rationale for placing this species in Chirixalus. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 148–149, provided a very brief account (as Philautus gracilipes), map for Thailand, and photograph. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 35, provided specific localities for Vietnam (as Philautus gracilipes). Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 102–103, provided a brief account (as Philautus gracilipes) for Yunnan, China. Mo and Zou, 2005, Herpetol. Sinica, 10: 89–92, reported the species in Guangxi, China, far from the localities in Yunnan. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 688–691, provided an account (as Aquixalus gracilipes) for China and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 425–383, provided a brief account (as Aquixalus gracilipes) including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 506–507, provided an account (as Aquixalus idiootocus), photographs, and a range map for China. Rowley, Dau, Hoang, Nguyen, Le, and Altig, 2015, Amphibia-Reptilia, 36: 277–285, provided information on larval morphology and advertisement call. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 65, provided a brief account for Guangdong, China, and photograph. Matsui, Khonsue, Panha, and Eto, 2015, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 32: 204–215, provided generically-confirmed records from Ha Giang and Lao Cai province, Vietnam, and also compared morphological characteristics with the similar Gracixalus seesom. Makchai, Chuaynkern, Safoowong, Chuachat, and Cota, 2020, Amph. N. Thailand: 159, provided photographs, a brief account for Thailand, and a range map. Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 54, suggested for undisclosed reasons that Thailand records were based on misidentifications.

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