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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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Leptomantis Peters, 1867

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Leptomantis

13 species

Leptomantis Peters, 1867, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867: 32. Type species: Leptomantis bimaculata Peters, 1867, by monotypy.

Common Names

Slim Treefrogs (Jiang, Jiang, Ren, Wu, and Li, 2019, Asian Herpetol. Res., 10: 6).

Distribution

In a broad arc from southern peninsular Thailand to Vietnam (although apparently absent from Laos), through Malay and through the Sundas (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei) to the Philippines.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Rhacophorus by Jiang, Jiang, Ren, Wu, and Li, 2019, Asian Herpetol. Res., 10: 6, where it had been placed by Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 52; Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002, Herpetol. Monogr., 16: 48. See comment under Rhacophorus for relevant literature. Yuan, Yang, and Jiang, 2022, Pakistan J. Zool., 54: 2417–2423, provided a tree based on four mtDNA genes that placed Leptomantis as the sister of Zhangixalus and together the sister of Rhacophorus. Mahony, Kamei, Brown, and Chan, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 252–253, while noting that the genetic data in support of Zhangixalus and Leptomantis as distinct from nominal Rhacophorus, disputed the morphological dististinctiveness of these taxa from Rhacophorus and on this basis considered Zhangixalus and Leptomantis to be a monophyletic subgenera of a larger Rhacophorus . DRF hesitates to embrace this change inasmuch as the subgenus category is relatively unpopular and the taxonomy of these frogs have a large user group, particularly in China. Nevertheless, DRF notes that the classification of Mahony et al. (2024) is consistent with the phylogeny as currently understood and may be adopted in this catalog in the future depending on usage by practicing taxonomists.

Contained taxa (13 sp.):

Leptomantis angulirostris (Ahl, 1927)

Leptomantis belalongensis (Dehling and Grafe, 2008)

Leptomantis bimaculatus Peters, 1867

Leptomantis cyanopunctatus (Manthey and Steiof, 1998)

Leptomantis fasciatus (Boulenger, 1895)

Leptomantis gadingensis (Das and Haas, 2005)

Leptomantis gauni (Inger, 1966)

Leptomantis harrissoni (Inger and Haile, 1959)

Leptomantis malkmusi (Dehling, 2015)

Leptomantis penanorum (Dehling, 2008)

Leptomantis pseudacutirostris (Dehling, 2011)

Leptomantis robinsonii (Boulenger, 1903)

Leptomantis rufipes (Inger, 1966)

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