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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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Liuixalus romeri (Smith, 1953)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Liuixalus > Species: Liuixalus romeri

Philautus romeri Smith, 1953, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 12, 6: 477. Holotype: BMNH 1952.1.6.65, by original designation. Type locality: "Lamma Island, Colony of Hong Kong", China.

Chirixalus romeri — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 52.

Chiromantis romeri — 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: 367.

Liuixalus romeri — Li, Che, Bain, Zhao, and Zhang, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 48: 311.

Aquixalus romeri — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 703. See comment under Philautus.

Romerus romeri — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 262.

Common Names

Romer's Bubble-nest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 112).

Romer's Philautus (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 32).

Romer's Tree Frog (Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 32).

Romer's Small Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 258).

Distribution

Chep Lap Kok, Lamma, Lantau, and Po Toi islands, Hong Kong, China, 0–650 m elevation. Also reported in southern Guangxi, China (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Hong Kong

Comment

Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 258–259, provided a brief account, figure, and map. See discussion by Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 52, for assignment to Chirixalus. Karsen, Lau, and Bogadek, 1986, Hong Kong Amph. Rept.: 32, provided a brief account. Thought to possibly be a member of Kurixalus according to Wilkinson, Win, Thin, Lwin, Shein, and Tun, 2003, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 54: 17–23. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Chirixalus romeri) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 516. Mo, Zhou, Xie, and Chen, 2007, Herpetol. Sinica, 11: 15–18, reported the species in Guangxi, China, far from the Hong Kong population. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 703–705, provided an account (as Aquixalus romeri) for China and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 425–383, provided a brief account (as Aquixalus romeri) including photographs of specimens and habitat. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 514–515, provided an account (as Aquixalus idiootocus), photographs, and a range map for China.

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