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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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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 eiffingeri (Boettger, 1895)

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

Rana eiffingeri Boettger, 1895, Zool. Anz., 18: 267. Also named by Boettger, 1895, Ber. Offenbach. Ver. Naturkd., 1895: 104. Holotype: SMF 6737 (formerly 1074a) according to Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 48. Type locality: "Liukiu [Ryukyu]-Inseln, entweder und wahrscheinlich von Okinawa, der mittleren Gruppe, oder von Ohoshima, der Nordgruppe", Japan.

Polypedates eiffingeri — Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 153.

Rhacophorus eiffingeri — Boulenger, 1909, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 4: 495; Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 65.

Rhacophorus pollicaris Werner, 1914 "1913", Mitt. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, 30: 50. Syntypes: NHMW 22881-82, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 28, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 34, ZMH (1 specimen), lost, according to Hallermann, 1998, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 95: 212. Type locality: "Kanshirei" (= Kuantzuling) and "Fuhusho" (= Maobu or Wucheng), Taiwan, China. Synonymy by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 152.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) eiffingeri — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 128.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) pollicaris — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 129.

Rhacophorus iriomotensis Okada and Matsui, 1964, Acta Herpetol. Japon., 1: 1. Holotype: USA Medical General Laboratory (disposition not known). Type locality: "upper Nakama River, Iriomotejima, Ryukyu Islands", Japan. Synonymy by Kuramoto, 1973 "1972", Bull. Fukuoka Univ. Educ., Nat. Sci., 22: 145.

Chirixalus eiffingeri — Liem, 1970, Fieldiana, Zool., 57: 95; Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 182.

Buergeria pollicaris — Liem, 1970, Fieldiana, Zool., 57: 90.

Kurixalus eiffingeri —Ye, Fei, and Dubois In Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 264; Wilkinson, Drewes, and Tatum, 2002, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 24: 272.

English Names

Eiffinger's Tree Frog (Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 165).

Eiffinger's Treefrog (Guo, Yang, and Li, 2009, Colored Illust. Amph. Rept. Taiwan: 108).

Eiffinger's Asian Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111).

Big-thumbed Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 264).

Taiwan Buerger's Frog (Buergeria pollicaris [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111).

Distribution

Yaeyama group of Ryukyu Is., Japan; Taiwan.

Comment

See accounts(as Rhacophorus eiffingeri) by Inger, 1947, Fieldiana, Zool., 32: 345; and Nakamura and Ueno, 1963, Japan. Rept. Amph. Color: 61-62. Considered a junior synonym of Ixalus japonicus Hallowell, 1860, by Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 166, but this was rejected by Liem, 1970, Fieldiana, Zool., 57: 95. See Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 152, for discussion of the original description. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 264-265, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 162-165, provided an account, and noted that the species likely did not belong in Chirixalus, a position formalized by Wilkinson, Drewes, and Tatum, 2002, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 24: 272. Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 113-115, provided an account (as Chirixalus eiffingeri), map, and photograph. Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 38-39, provided a brief account for Taiwan (as Chirixalus eiffingeri). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 740-745, provided an account and a spot map for China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 444, provided a brief account for China including photographs of specimens. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 520–521, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for Taiwan (in the sense of including Kurixalus wangi and Kurixalus beryllinis. Wu, Huang, Tsai, Li, Jhang, and Wu, 2016, ZooKeys, 557: 121–153, provided a range map for Taiwan. Kishimoto and Hayashi, 2017, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 36: 37–45, reported on embryonic and larval development stages. Guo, Yang, and Li, 2009, Colored Illust. Amph. Rept. Taiwan: 108–109, provided a brief account, photographs, and map. Chang, Ma, Chen, and Wu, 2017, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 12: 139–150, reported on karyotype.

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