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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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Kurixalus idiootocus (Kuramoto and Wang, 1987)

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

Chirixalus idiootocus Kuramoto and Wang, 1987, Copeia, 1987: 932. Holotype: NTUMA 1010, by original designation. Type locality: "in a rain pool near Sanshengkong (a temple, altitude ca. 500 m) in the southern slope of Mount Mientien-Shan, Taipei, Taiwan", China.

Philautus idiootocus — Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 252.

Chirixalus idiootocus — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 57.

Kurixalus idiootocus — Wilkinson, Drewes, and Tatum, 2002, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 24: 272; 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: 245.

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

Aquixalus idiootocus — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 671.

Common Names

Mientien Treefrog (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 40).

Temple Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 111; Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 40).

Mientien Small Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 252).

面天原指树蛙 (Chinese: Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 13).

Distribution

Low elevations in Taiwan.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Taiwan

Endemic: Taiwan

Comment

Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 252-253, provided a brief account (as Philautus idootocus), figure, and map. Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 57-58, discussed with this species cannot be in Philautus and, although they transferred it back to Chirixalus, noted that the definition of Chirixalus was so poorly resolved that this species might ultimately have to be moved to a distinct genus, a position formalized by Wilkinson, Drewes, and Tatum, 2002, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 24: 272. Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 40-41, provided a brief account for Taiwan (as Chirixalus idiootocus). Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 671-676, provided an account (as Aquixalus idiootocus) and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 428-429, provided a brief account (as Aquixalus idiootocus) for China including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 498–499, provided an account (as Aquixalus idiootocus), photographs, and a range map for China. Guo, Yang, and Li, 2009, Colored Illust. Amph. Rept. Taiwan: 110–111, provided a brief account, photographs, and map. Chang, Ma, Chen, and Wu, 2017, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 12: 139–150, reported on karyotype. Lyu, Li, Wang, Liu, Liu, Jiang, Jiang, and Li, 2024, Asian Herpetol. Res., 15: 31–40, discussed the systematics of this species and considered Kurixalus inexpectatus conspecific, this disputed by Kohler, Othman, Wang, Zhu, Wu, Chuang, and Borzée, 2025, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 20: 3–16. Liu, Wang, Wang, Wang, Deng, Deng, and Cui, 2025, Zootaxa, 5661: 504–520, reported on call characteristics.

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