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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.
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Nasutixalus jerdonii (Günther, 1876)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Nasutixalus > Species: Nasutixalus jerdonii

Polypedates jerdonii Günther, 1876 "1875", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1875: 571. Syntpes: BMNH (2 specimens), by original designation and Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 81 (and illustrated in pl. 8, fig. 1 of that publication), these being BMNH 1947.2.7.84–85 (formerly 1872.4.17.189–190) by museum records; BMNH 1947.2.7.84 designated lectotype by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 73. Type locality: "Darjeeling", West Bengal, India.

Rhacophorus jerdonii — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 80.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) jerdonii — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 114.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) buergeri jerdonii — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 172.

Philautus (Kirtixalus) jerdonii — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 73.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) jerdonii — Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 101.

Rhacophorus jerdonii — Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67. Unsubstantiated taxonomic change.

Philautus (Philautus) jerdonii — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 25.

Philautus sahai Sarkar and Ray, 2006, In Alfred (ed.), Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 1: 303. Holotype: ZSIC A8500, by original designation. Type locality: "north bank of Noa Dihing River, c. 10 km. north of Gandhigram, . . . . Changlang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India". Synonymy by Boruah, Deepak, and Das, 2025, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 75: 536.

Pseudophilautus sahai — Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 519. Provisional arrangement and by implication.

Raorchestes sahai — Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 98: 1120, by implication.

Frankixalus jerdonii — Biju, Senevirathne, Garg, Mahony, Kamei, Thomas, Shouche, Raxworthy, Meegaskumbura, and Van Bocxlaer, 2016, PLoS One, 11(1): e0145727: 6.

Nasutixalus jerdonii — Sivongxay, Davankham, Phimmachak, Phoumixay, and Stuart, 2016, Zootaxa, 4147: 439–440.

Common Names

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

Jerdon's Tree Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67).

Jerdon's Bush Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 157; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 101).

Jerdon's Ridge-nosed Treefrog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 42).

Darjeeling Bubble-nest Tree Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 12).

Sahai Bush Frog (Philautus sahai [no longer recognized] Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 107).

Gandhigram Bush Frog (Philautus sahai [no longer recognized] Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 14).

Distribution

West Bengal, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India, as well as adjacent Bhutan and Putao District, Kachin State, northern Myanmar; possibly into adjacent Nepal.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bhutan, India, Myanmar

Likely/Controversially Present: Nepal

Comment

Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 175, provided a brief account (based in part on Rhacophorus microdiscus according to Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 101). Sarkar, Biswas, and Ray, 1992, State Fauna Ser., 3: 93, provided a brief account for West Bengal, India. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 101–102, provided taxonomic notes, bibliography, and range. Sarkar and Ray, 2006, In Alfred (ed.), Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 1: 311, provided a brief report for Arunachal Pradesh (as Rhacophorus jerdonii). Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 99–100, provided a brief characterization and a photograph of nominal Philautus sahai. Rahman, Chen, Wu, Chen, Lwin, Murphy, Li, and Che, 2020, Zootaxa, 4742: 531–541, provided the extreme northern Myanmar records. Wangyal, Bower, Sherub, Tshewang, Wangdi, Rinchen, Puntsho, Tashi, Koirala, Bhandari, Phuntsho, Koirala, Ghalley, Chaida, Tenzin, Powrel, Tshewang, Raika, Jamtsho, Kinley, Gyeltshen, Tashi, Nidup, Wangdi, Phuentsho, Norbu, Wangdi, Wangchuk, Tobgay, Dorji, and Das, 2020, Herpetol. Rev., 51: 793, identified a photograph as of this species from Zhemgang District. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 42, briefly discussed habitat, range, and identification in Myanmar. Muansanga, Malsawmdawngliana, Mathipi, Bualchhuak, and Lalremsanga, 2022, Reptiles & Amphibians, 29: 55–58, reported on range in Mizoram, India, and diet. Boruah, Deepak, and Das, 2025, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 75: 517–625, discussed the systematics, phylogenetics, and distribution of the species.

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