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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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Philautus hosii (Boulenger, 1895)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Philautus > Species: Philautus hosii

Rhacophorus hosii Boulenger, 1895, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 16: 169. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.8.88 (formerly 1895.7.2.21) according to Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 35. Type locality: "Patah River, North Sarawak", Malaysia (Borneo).

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) hosii — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: xi, 57, 119.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) buergeri hosii — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 170.

Rhacophorus hosii — Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 385. By implication of doubting synonymy of Rhacophorus everetti with a number of Rhacophorus buergeri subspecies noted by Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 137–217.

Rhacophorus hosei — Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 304. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Philautus hosei — Liem, 1970, Fieldiana, Zool., 57: 68.

Philautus hosii — Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 529.

Philautus (Gorhixalus) hosii — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 72.

Leptomantis hosii — Iskandar and Colijn, 2000, Treubia, 31: 95.

Philautus hosii — Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002, Herpetol. Monogr., 16: 47, by implication.

Polypedates chlorophthalmus Das, 2005, Raffles Bull. Zool., 53: 266. Holotype: ZRC 1.11531, by original designation. Type locality: "from an unnamed stream ca. 0.8 km NE of Samling Camp at Ravenscourt, 04° 05′ 14.1″ N 115° 28′ 42.7″ E, Lawas Division, Sarawak; 1,351 m ASL, at middle elevations of Gunung Murud, East Malaysia (Borneo)". Synonymy by Dehling and Das, 2020, Raffles Bull. Zool., 68: 319.

English Names

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

Distribution

Western and northern Borneo (southern Sabah and central Sarawak [Malaysia] and western Kalimantan, Indonesia, up to 350 m elevation); likely into Brunei.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Rhacophorus buergeri by Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 385; by implication, and Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 304 (who also provided an account as Rhacophorus hosei), where it had been placed by Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 170. See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 122–123, to compare this species to other rhacophorids of the Sunda Shelf region. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 634. Dehling and Das, 2020, Raffles Bull. Zool., 68: 319–325, discussed the status of Polypedates chlorophthalmus and placed it in synonymy.

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