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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 himalayensis (Annandale, 1912)

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

Rhacophorus maculatus himalayensis Annandale, 1912, Rec. Indian Mus., 8: 14. Types: ZSIC, according to Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 181, although not seen by him; MNHNP 1983.1170 invalidly designated neotype by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 85, in response to apparent non-availability of the ZSIC types. The neotype designation set aside by the discovery of the original types by Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: xxxx. ZSIC 16944 designated lectotype by Saikia, Bora, Sinha, and Purkayastha, 2020, Reptiles & Amphibians, 27: 517. Type locality: "The Eastern Himalays, Assam, western China". Invalidly restricted by neotype designation to "Rakshe, 2000-2070 m, Est-Népal". Lectotype from "Kobo, alt. 4000 ft . . . . Abor Hills", Jonai Sub-Division, Dhemaji District, Assam, India" according to Saikia, Bora, Sinha, and Purkayastha, 2020, Reptiles & Amphibians, 27: 517.

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

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) maculatus himalayensis — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 84–85.

Polypedates himalayensis — Gogoi and Sengupta, 2017, Das (ed.), Diversity Ecol. Amph. India: 39.

English Names

Himalayan Tree Frog (Polypedates maculatus himalayanus: Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67).

Himalayan Whipping Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 12).

Distribution

Northeastern India, although currently known with confidence only from Assam, Meghalaya, extreme northern West Bengal, and Arunachal Pradesh; central Bhutan.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bhutan, India

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Polypedates maculatus by Gogoi and Sengupta, 2017, Das (ed.), Diversity Ecol. Amph. India: 34 (who reported on call and comparative morphology) where it had been placed by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 84–85. Saikia, Bora, Sinha, and Purkayastha, 2020, Reptiles & Amphibians, 27: 517–518, discussed the location of the type locality and the nomenclatural history of the species. Pradhan, Yonle, and Bhutia, 2018, Asian J. Conserv. Biol., 7: 66–72. reported the species from Takdah Cantonment on the outskirts of Darjeeling, in the Darjeeling Hills of West Bengal, India, 1440 to 1650 m elevation. Tshewang and Letro, 2018, J. Threatened Taxa, 10: , reported the species from Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park in central Bhutan.

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