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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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Raorchestes kempiae (Boulenger, 1919)

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

Ixalus kempiae Boulenger, 1919, Rec. Indian Mus., 16: 208. Holotype: BMNH. Type locality: "Garo Hills, Assam . . . . above Tura", Meghalaya, India.

Rhacophorus (Philautus) kempiae — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 53, 69.

Philautus kempiae — Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 450–451; Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 91.

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

Philautus kempii — Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 158. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Raorchestes kempiae — Naveen, Chandramouli, Babu, Ryndongsngi, Karunakaran, and Kumara, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 359–372.

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 by Naveen, Chandramouli, Babu, Ryndongsngi, Karunakaran, and Kumara, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 359–372.

Common Names

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

Kemp's Bush Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 103; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 96).

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

Cangyuan Bush Frog (No longer recognized: Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 13).

Distribution

Garo Hills of Meghalaya, from Mizoram, northeastern India, and from Satchari National Park, Bangladesh; Cangyuan County, Yunnan, China, N23.22542°, E99.22509°, elevation 1272 m), presumably to be found in intervening Myanmar.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Likely/Controversially Present: Myanmar

Comment

Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 158, provided a brief account. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 81, provided access to literature and range. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 96–97, provided a brief characterization and a photograph. Garg, Suyesh, Das, Bee, and Biju, 2021, PeerJ, 9 (e10791): 2, doubted that either this species is actually a member of Philautus or possibly a synonym of some non-Philautus species; it is uncear which from their statement. Naveen, Chandramouli, Babu, Ryndongsngi, Karunakaran, and Kumara, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 359–372, rediscovered the species and, based on morphology and molecular markers, reassigned the species to Raorchestes, and provided new localities. Also, on the basis of morphology and molecular markers, places Raorchest cangyuanensis in synonymy.

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