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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 teraiensis (Dubois, 1987)

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

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) leucomystax teraiensis Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 81-82. Holotype: MNHNP 1983.1103, by original designation. Type locality: "Belberi, 210 m, Est-Népal".

Rhacophorus teraiensis — Ao, Bordoloi, and Ohler, 2003, Zoos' Print J., 18: 1122.

English Names

Common Tree Frog (Ahmed, Das, and Dutta, 2009, Amph. Rept. NE India: 49).

Six-lined Tree Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67 [as Polypedates leucomystax]).

Terai Tree Frog (Polypedates leucomystax teraiensis: Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67).

Perching Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 170 [as Polypedates leucomystax]).

Distribution

Eastern Nepal and eastern and peninsular and northeastern India (West Bengal, Meghalaya, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Sikkim (also reported for Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh) and Bangladesh into adjacent Myanmar, and possibly into adjacent China (see comment).

Comment

Ahmed, Das, and Dutta, 2009, Amph. Rept. NE India: 49, provided a brief account for northeastern India. The separation of this nominal species has not been well-documented from Polypedates leucomystax and eastern limit of the range has not be documented with respect to the western limit of Polypedates leucomystax . Further, the name (DRF) Rhacophorus maculatus himalayensis Annandale, 1912, from Assam (not treated by Ahmed, Das, and Dutta, 2009, Amph. Rept. NE India: 49) could threaten the priority of Polypedates teraiensis (Dubois, 1987). Sarkar, Biswas, and Ray, 1992, State Fauna Ser., 3: 91-92, provided a brief account (as Polypedates leucomystax) for West Bengal, India. Ao, Bordoloi, and Ohler, 2003, Zoos' Print J., 18: 1117-1125, provided a specific locality for Nagaland, northeastern India. Devi and Shamungou, 2006, J. Exp. Zool. India, 9: 317-324, provided a record for Manipur, northeastern India. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 93-94, provided systematic notes, access to literature, and range. Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 19, doubted records (as Polypedates leucomystax) from Karnataka, India, although Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 161-163, reported the species from throughout peninsular India as far west as Gujarat. Choudhury, Hussain, Buruah, Saikia, and Sengupta, 2002, Hamadryad, 26: 277, commented on the Indian population (as Polypedates leucomystax). Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 170-171, and Sarkar and Ray, 2006, In Alfred (ed.), Fauna of Arunachal Pradesh, Part 1: 309, provided brief accounts (as Polypedates leucomystax) for the Indian population. See Shah and Tiwari, 2004, Herpetofauna Nepal: 73, for brief account (as Polypedates leucomystax). Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. Gogoi and Sengupta, 2017, Das (ed.), Diversity Ecol. Amph. India: 33–48, compared this species with Polypedates leucomystax, Polypedates himalayensis, and Polypedates maculatus. See comments by Hakim, Trageser, Ghose, Das, Rashid, and Rahman, 2020, Check List, 16: 1239–1268, who reported the species from Lawachara National Park, Sylhet Division, northeastern Bangladesh.

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