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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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Kurixalus banaensis (Bourret, 1939)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Kurixalus > Species: Kurixalus banaensis

Philautus banaensis Bourret, 1939, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1939: 15, 34. Syntypes: 6 specimens, including MNHNP 48.0159–161, according to Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 51, 83–34, who designated as lectotype MNHNP 1948.0160, redescribed it and discussed problems with identification of the types. Type locality: "Bana" (= Ba Na), Quang Nam-Danang Province, Vietnam.

Philautus (Philautus) banaensis — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 52.

Kurixalus banaensis — Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 511.

Kurixalus (Aquixalus) banaensis — Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 56.

Common Names

Bana Frilled Treefrog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 56).

Bana Bubble-nest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111).

Distribution

Central Vietnam (Hai Van Pass and the foot of the eastern slope of the Annam mountains in Quang Nam-Danang Province, Gia Lai, Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Ngai, and Quang Binh Provinces) into Xekong Province (1450–1475 m), southeastern Laos. See comment.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Laos, Vietnam

Comment

See account by Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 464–465. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 93, provided a statement of the range. See photograph in Orlov, Ho, and Nguyen, 2004, Russ. J. Herpetol., 11: 61. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 34, provided specific localities for Vietnam. Bain, Nguyen, and Doan, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 111, provided a record for Thua Thien-Hue province and briefly discussed the distribution. Hendrix, Nguyen, Böhme, and Ziegler, 2008, Herpetol. Notes, 1: 23–31, provided a record from Quang Binh Province, Vietnam. Tran, Le, Le, Vu, Nguyen, Böhme, and Ziegler, 2010, Herpetol. Notes, 3: 111–119, provided a record from Quang Ngai Province, central Vietnam, and provided a brief morphological diagnosis. See additional information regarding lectotype by Nguyen, Matsui, and Eto, 2014, Russ. J. Herpetol., 21: 298, and who noted that previous records for this species require verification now that Kurixalus motokawai has been named from the Central Highlands. These authors also referred this species, Kurixalus viridescens, and Kurixalus motokawai to the Kurixalus banaensis species group. Brakels, Maury, and Nguyen, 2021, Herpetol. Rev., 52: 791, provided a record from Dakcheung District, Xekong Province, Laos. Stuart, Seateun, Sivongxay, and Phimmachak, 2025 "2024", in Wildlife Lao PDR: 43, summarized literature, taxonomy, habitat, and detailed range for Laos.

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