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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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Polypedates braueri (Vogt, 1911)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Polypedates > Species: Polypedates braueri

Rhacophorus braueri Vogt, 1911, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1911: 180. Syntypes: ZMB 21945 (9 specimens); Kuraishi, Matsui, Ota, and Chen, 2011, Zootaxa, 2744: 60, designated ZMB 21945 lectotype, the others in the former syntypic series being renumbered ZMB 65913–65920. Type locality: "Formosa" (= Taiwan), China.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) baueri — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 137.

Polypedates baueri — Kuraishi, Matsui, Ota, and Chen, 2011, Zootaxa, 2744: 53–61.

English Names

White-lipped Treefrog (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 42 [as Polypedates megacephalus]).

Java Treefrog (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 42 [as Polypedates megacephalus; with taxonomic adjustment, this is now inappropriate, as the species does not occur in Java—DRF]).

Taiwan Whipping Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 58).

Upland Treefrog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 42).

Distribution

Tropical and subtropical China (including parts of Tibet [Medog], Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Anhui) as well as Taiwan, and Lao Cai, Vietnam; also Phitsanulok, Thailand; Tai Nai Township and Putao District, Kachin State, Myanmar; Mizoram, northeastern India; introduced into Guam; expected to occur in Laos.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, India, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Likely/Controversially Present: Laos

Introduced: Guam

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Polypedates megacephalus by Kuraishi, Matsui, Ota, and Chen, 2011, Zootaxa, 2744: 53–61, where it had been placed by Stejneger, 1925, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 66: 30; Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 137; Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 178; and Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 156. Okada, 1931, Tailless Batr. Japan. Empire: 184–185, for review (as Rhacophorus leucomystax) of Taiwan (China) population. Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 42–43, provided a brief account (as Polypedates megacephalus) for Taiwan. Introduced populations from Okinawa (Japan) and Guam may be of this species rather than Polypedates megacephalus. Records of Polypedates megacephalus from Taiwan apply to this species. Kuraishi, Matsui, Hamidy, Belabut, Ahmad, Panha, Sudin, Yong, Jiang, Ota, Thong, and Nishikawa, 2013, Zool. Scripta, 42: 54–70, discussed the taxonomic status of this member of the Polypedates leucomystax group. Pan, Dang, Wang, Zheng, Rao, and Li, 2013, Asian Herpetol. Res., 4: 124–133, provided a phylogeny reconstruction of the Polypedates leucomystax that suggested that this species extends to Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Anhui. Zug, 2013, Rept. Amph. Pacific Is.: 77–68, provided a brief discussion of the introduced Guam population. Huang, Li, Luo, Ni, Yao, Xu, Zeng, Li, Wei, and Zhang, 2019, MtDNA, Part B, 4: 1739–1740, reported on the complete mt genome. Rahman, Chen, Wu, Chen, Lwin, Murphy, Li, and Che, 2020, Zootaxa, 4742: 531–541, provided the extreme northern Myanmar and Xizang records, genetically confirmed. Lalronunga, Vanramliana, Lalrinchhana, Vanlalhrima, Sailo, Lalnunhlua, Sailo, Zosangliana, Lalhmangaiha, and Lalhmingliani, 2020, Sci. Vision, 20: 106–117, provided a record from Mizoram, northeastern India, genetically confirmed. Che, Jiang, Yan, and Zhang, 2020, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 348–352, provided a detailed account for Tibet, China. Yuan, Deng, Jiang, Klaus, Orlov, Yang, and Li, 2021, Zool. Res., Kunming, 42: supplmentary data, provided a genetically-confirmed locality from Phu Hin Rong, Phitsanulok, north-central Thailand. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 42, briefly discussed habitat, range, and identification in Myanmar.

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