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* = "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
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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 taeniatus (Boulenger, 1906)

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

Rhacophorus taeniatus Boulenger, 1906, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Ser. 2, 2: 385. Syntypes: ZSIC (1 specimen) and BMNH 1947.2.26.57 (formerly 1906.8.10.47) by museum records; BMNH 1947.2.26.57 designated lectotype by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 79. Type locality: "Purneah, Bengal [Bihar]", India.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) taeniatus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 108; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77.

Polypedates taeniatus — Anders, Diener, and Schleich, 1998, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Contr. Herpetol. S. Asia Nepal India, 4: XXX; Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 330.

English Names

Bengal Whipping Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 113; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 116; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 108).

Bengal Whipping Tree Frog (Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 108).

Terai Tree Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67; Schleich, Anders, and Kästle, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 80).

Distribution

Bengal region (Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, India and possibly [see comment] to northern Bangladesh) to Assam and southern Nepal; reported from Samdrup Jongkhar District, Bhutan.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bhutan, India, Nepal

Comment

In the Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) leucomystax group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77; see comment under Polypedates. See account by Anders, Diener, and Schleich, 1998, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Contr. Herpetol. S. Asia Nepal India, 4: 73–86. See Ahmed and Dutta, 2000, Hamadryad, 25: 49–50, for discussion of distribution. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 181, 221–222 , provided a brief account (as Rhacophorus taeniatus). Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 330–334, provided an account, figure, and map for the Nepal population. Hegde, Roy, and Lal, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 109: 111–112, briefly discussed the range in India. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 108, provided a brief characterization and photograph. See Shah and Tiwari, 2004, Herpetofauna Nepal: 80, for brief account. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. Das, Basu, Converse, and Choudhury, 2012, J. Threatened Taxa, 4: 2556–2557, reported on calling sites. Deuti, Murthy, and Sethy, 2018, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 118: 298–306, provided a record from Behala Aerodroma, south Kolkata, West Bengal, India, and reported on call of postembryonic developmental stages. Reported from extreme southwestern Nepal in the Shuklaphanta National Park by Rawat, Bhattarai, Poudyal, and Subedi, 2020, J. Threatened Taxa, 12: 11587. 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: 794, tentatively identified a photograph as of this species from Samdrup Jongkhar District, Bhutan. Khatiwada, Wang, Zhao, Xie, and Jiang, 2021, Asian Herpetol. Res., 12: 1–35, discussed the genetics of the Nepal population. Rahman, Nneji, and Hossain, 2022, J. Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 15: 147–156, excluded this species from the Bangladesh fauna without comment, although it remains unclear why the species was included previously in the Bangladesh fauna.

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