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* = "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.
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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 longchuanensis (Yang and Li, 1978)

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

Philautus longchuanensis Yang and Li In Yang, Su, and Li, 1978, Amph. Rept. Gaoligongshan: 37. Syntypes: KIZ 17 specimens. Type localities: Jangjiang and Longchuan, Yunnan Province, China, 1350-1600 m elevation.

Philautus longchuanensis Yang and Li In Yang, Su, and Li, 1979, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 4: 186. Holotype: KIZ 74110046, by original designation. Type locality: "Gongdong ..., Longchuan Xian ... , altitude 1600 m", Yunnan, China.

Philautus (Philautus) longchuanensis — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 55.

Aquixalus longchuanensis — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 717. See comment under Philautus.

Pseudophilautus longchuanensis — Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 511.

Raorchestes longchuanensis — Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 98: 1120, by implication.

Liuixalus longchuanensis — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 512.

English Names

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

Longchuan Small Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 260).

Longchuan Shrub Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 60).

Longchuan Shrubfrog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 44).

Distribution

Gaoligong Shan and Hengduanshan mountains, Yunnan, China, 1350–1600 m elevation; in adjacent northern Vietnam (Lai Chau Province); northeastern Myanmar (Kachin and Sagaing); and Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son provinces, northern Thailand; tentatively reported from Bhutan but needs confirmation.

Geographics occurrence

Natural resident: China, People's Republic of, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

Likely/controversial occurrence in political unit: Bhutan

Comment

Closely related to Philautus gracilipes and Philautus rhododiscus (now Theloderma rhododiscus), according to the original publication, where the molecular markers, advertisement call, and external morphology were detailed. Not addressed by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 71–73. Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 192–193, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 260–261, provided accounts. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 119–120. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 95, reported the Vietnam component of distribution but did not reference voucher specimens. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 35, provided specific localities for Vietnam. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 104, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 717–719, provided an account (as Aquixalus longchuanensis) and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 431, provided a brief account (as Aquixalus longchuanensis). Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 512, provided an account (as Liuixalus longchuanensis), photographs, and a range map for China. See comment under Theloderma andersoni. Yu, Liu, Hou, Li, and Yang, 2019, Zootaxa, 4577: 381–391, reported the species from Mengla County, extreme southern Yunnan, China, and noted that at least some of the previous records of Raorchestes longchuanensis in southern Yunnan may also apply to Raorchestes parvulus. 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 Trasjouangtse District, Bhutan. Al-Razi, Maria, Hasan, and Muzaffar, 2020, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 14 (1: e225): 119–131, reported the species from northeastern Bangladesh on the Indian border, based on morphology and DNA analysis; this being based on misidentified Raorchestes cangyuanensis according to Lalronunga, Vanramliana, Lalramliana, and Lalhmingliani, 2021, Zootaxa, 4974: 385 (who also discussed other misidentifications imbedded in the literature). Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 60, suggested that Vietnam record requires confirmation. Wu, Suwannapoom, Poyarkov, Gao, Karuno, and Yuan, 2022, Russ. J. Herpetol., 29: 1–18, provided the first records from Mae Hong Son and Chiang Mai provinces, Thailand, genetically confirmed.

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