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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 sanctisilvaticus (Das and Chanda, 1997)

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

Philautus sanctisilvaticus Das and Chanda, 1997, Hamadryad, 22: 21. Holotype: ZSIC A1778, by original designation. Type locality: "Kapildhara Falls, Amarkantak (23° 10′ N; 81° 70′ E), ca. 190 km SE Jabalpur City, Shahdol, Jabalpur District, Madhya Pradesh, central India."

Philautus sanctipalustris Das and Chanda, 1997, Hamadryad, 22: 24. Error for Philautus sanctisilvaticus according to Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 61.

Philautus terebrans Das and Chanda, 1998, J. South Asian Nat. Hist., 3: 105. Holotype: USNM 239428, by original designation. Type locality: "Peddavalasa (17°47′ N; 82°16′ E), ca. 1,000 m altitude, Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh State, south-eastern India". Synonymy by Mirza, Warekar, Mohapatra, Raju, Pratil, Dutta, and Pal, 2019, Zootaxa, 4683: 563.

Philautus (Philautus) terebrans — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 59.

Philautus (Philautus) sanctisilvaticus — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 59.

Philautus similipalensis Dutta, 2003, Russ. J. Herpetol., 10: 26. Holotype: ZSIC A 9061, by original designation. Type locality: "Gurguria, ca. 770 m altitude, proposed Similipal Biosphere Reserve (21° 44′ N; 86° 8′ E), Orissa state, south-eastern India, . . . , from below rotten Sal leaves near the river bank Khairi". Synonymy by Mirza, Warekar, Mohapatra, Raju, Pratil, Dutta, and Pal, 2019, Zootaxa, 4683: 563.

Pseudophilautus terebrans — Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 519. Provisional arrangement and by implication.

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

Raorchestes sanctisilvaticus — Mirza, Warekar, Mohapatra, Raju, Pratil, Dutta, and Pal, 2019, Zootaxa, 4683: 563.

Common Names

Sacred Grove Bush Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 108; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 14).

Boring Bush Frog (Raorchestes terebrans [no longer recognized]: Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 110).

Similipal Bush Frog (Philautus similipalensis [no longer recognized]: Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 109).

Distribution

Widespread across the northern Eastern Ghats and Deccan Peninsula from Jharkand and eastern Madhya Pradesh south.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 199 (as Philautus sanctisylvaticus) and 200 (as Raorchestes terebrans), provided a brief account. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 531. See Mirza, Warekar, Mohapatra, Raju, Pratil, Dutta, and Pal, 2019, Zootaxa, 4683: 563-576, for revisionary discussion. Deuti, Sethy, and Ray, 2014, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 114: 136–137, provided a brief account. Garg, Suyesh, Das, Bee, and Biju, 2021, PeerJ, 9 (e10791): 42–43, suggested that this species may be conspecific with Raorchestes bombayensis, but considered that additional molecular sampling was required. Kumar, 2024, Zoos' Print J., 39: 28–31, reported the species from the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, Chota Nagpur Plateau, Jharkand, India. Reported from Papikonda National Park, in the Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India, by Bhupathi, Mohapatra, Narayana, Kunte, Jaiswal, and Kar, 2025, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 125: 255–276. Kumar, 2026, J. Entomol. Zool. Stud., 14: 64–72, reported on habitat in the Jamshedpur region of East Singhbhum district, southeastern Jharkhand, India.

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