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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.
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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
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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Raorchestes garo (Boulenger, 1919)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Raorchestes > Species: Raorchestes garo

Ixalus garo Boulenger, 1919, Rec. Indian Mus., 16: 207. Holotype: ZSIC 19187 according to Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 41. Type locality: "Garo Hills, Assam . . . . above Tura", Meghalaya, India.

Rhacophorus (Philautus) garo — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 70.

Philautus garo — Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 450–451; Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 528.

Philautus (Philautus) garo — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 41.

Raorchestes cangyuanensis Wu, Suwannapoom, Xu, Murphy, and Che In Wu, Suwannapoom, Xu, Chen, Jin, Chen, Murphy, and Che, 2019, Zool. Res., Kunming, 40: 559. Holotype: KIZ 015856, by original designation. Type locality: "from Cangyuan County, Yunnan Province, China (N23.22542°, E99.22509°, 1 272 m a.s.l.)". urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:735566BF-4677-479B-B5D0-E52D1468C229. Synonymy with Raorchestes kempiae by Naveen, Chandramouli, Babu, Ryndongsngi, Karunakaran, and Kumara, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 359–372. See comment regarding status. Synonymy with Raorchestes garo by Boruah, Deepak, and Das, 2025, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 75: 557.

Raorchestes garo — Naveen, Chandramouli, Babu, Ryndongsngi, Karunakaran, and Kumara, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 359.

Common Names

Garo Hills Shrub Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 12).

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

Garo Hills Bush Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 99; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 96).

Cangyuan Bush Frog (Raorchestes cangyuanensis [no longer recognized]: Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 13).

沧源灌树蛙 (Chinese: Raorchestes cangyuanensis [no longer recognized] Wang, Ren, Chen, Lyu, Guo, Jiang, Chen, Li, Guo, Wang, and Che, 2020, Biodiversity Sci., 28: App. 1: 13; Yuan, Chen, Wu, Li, and Che, 2022, Biodiversity Sci., 30 (4: 21470): 7).

Distribution

Northeast India from western part of Meghalaya to the eastern part of Arunachal Pradesh in the Namdapha Tiger Reserve; also distributed in the Barail Hills of Assam and Nagaland, in Manipur, and in Mizoram as well as Cangyuan southwestern Yunnan, China. Presumably to be found intervening northern Myanmar. Mostly associated with lowland evergreen forests, at elevations of 50–1480 m elevation across hills on the southern slopes of Brahmaputra Valley, India.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bangladesh, China, People's Republic of, India

Likely/Controversially Present: Myanmar

Comment

See Choudhury, Hussain, Buruah, Saikia, and Sengupta, 2002, Hamadryad, 26: 276–282, discussed range. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 156 (Philautus garo) provided a brief account. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 79, provided access to literature and range. Ao, Bordoloi, and Ohler, 2003, Zoos' Print J., 18: 1117–1125, provided a specific locality for Nagaland, northeastern India. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 523. Mathew and Sen, 2009, Cobra, Chennai, 2: 14–16, provided the East Garo Hills district record of Philautus garo and commented on the range. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 96–98, provided brief characterizations of Philautus garo and photographs .Garg, Suyesh, Das, Bee, and Biju, 2021, PeerJ, 9 (e10791): 2, doubted that nominal Philautus garo is a member of Philautus or might possibly be synonyms of some non-Philautus species; it is unclear which from their statement. Naveen, Chandramouli, Babu, Ryndongsngi, Karunakaran, and Kumara, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 359–372, rediscovered the species, noted it to be most similar to Raorchestes longchuanensis, and, based on morphology and molecular markers, reassigned the species to Raorchestes, and provided new localities. Warjri, Purkayastha, Lalremsanga, and Das, 2025, J. Threatened Taxa, 17: 27176–78, provided additional records in India, advertisement call, and an augmented description. Boruah, Deepak, and Das, 2025, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 75: 517–625, redescribed the holotype and discussed the morphology, morphometrics, molecular markers, advertisement call, systematics (placing this in their Raorchestes garo group), and distribution of the species. They also provided (p. 555) a dot map for northeastern India and Bangladesh.

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