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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
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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
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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"
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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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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 qionglaiensis Guo, Zhong, Leung, Wang, and Hu, 2022

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

Kurixalus silvaenaias Hou, Peng, Miao, Liu, Li, and Orlov, 2021, Animal Mol. Breeding, 11: 7. Holotype: CIB 118049, by original designation. Type locality: "Pingle Town (30°36′ 16″ N, 103°29′ 69″ E, 623 m elevation), Qionglai County, Chengdu Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China". Zoobank publication registration: 92E1C1DA-F6F4-4CCB-BEBC-E6D8AA63DBE8. Determined to be invalid due to lacking a permanent repository of the electronic publication at the time of publication according to Lyu, Li, Wang, Liu, Liu, Jiang, Jiang, and Li, 2024, Asian Herpetol. Res., 15: 31–40, and who then treated Kurixalus qionglaiensis as the name of record for this taxon.

Kurixalus qionglaiensis Guo, Zhong, Leung, Wang, and Hu, 2022, Zool. Res., Kunming, 43: 90–94. Holotype: CIB 118031, by original designation. Type locality: "Lugou Bamboo Sea (芦沟竹海), Pingle Town, Qionglai City, Sichuan Province, southwestern China (N30°21′51″, E103°18′30″; elevation 615 m a.s.l.)." Zoobank publication registration: C507D466-AB3D-41BD-BAA8-F8AA8810F280. Zoobank reports publication as 10 December 2021, but not seen in Wayback Machine page backups until 2022 (DRF).

Common Names

Fairy Swamp Treefrog (Kurixalus silvaenaias [no longer recognized]: original publication).

Qionglai Frilled Tree Frog (Kurixalus qionglaiensis: original publication).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Pingle Town, 615 to 623 m elevation, Qionglai County, southwestern Chengdu Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Comparative external morphology, molecular markers, and natural history detailed in the original publication, where it was posited to be the sister taxon of Kurixalus idiootocus.

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