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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.
* = "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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Rhacophorus lateralis Boulenger, 1883

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Rhacophorus > Species: Rhacophorus lateralis

Rhacophorus lateralis Boulenger, 1883, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 12: 162. Holotype: BMNH 1882.2.10.75, according to Das, 2000, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 19: 35, now renumbered 1947.2.8.38 according to museum records. Type locality: "Malabar", India. Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 8, noted the imprecision of this type locality.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) lateralis — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 165; Mahony, Kamei, Brown, and Chan, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 253, by implication.

Common Names

Small Tree Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67; Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 170).

Boulenger's Tree Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 175).

Winged Gliding Frog (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 170).

Small Gliding Frog (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 170).

Double Banded Small Tree Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 15).

Distribution

Multiple localities in Chikmagalur and Kodagu districts of Karnataka, and Idukki and Wayanad districts of Kerala, India, ca. 800 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

Inger and Dutta, 1987 "1986", J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 83 (Suppl.): 135–146, and Das, 2000, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 19: 35–40 (who described two new specimens), resurrected Rhacophorus lateralis from the synonymy of Rhacophorus malabaricus, where it had been placed provisionally in synonymy by Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 214. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 175, provided a brief account. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 170–171, provided an account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 540. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Zachariah, 2010, J. Threatened Taxa, 2: 986–989, provided a range extension and discussed the range in the Western Ghats of southern India as well as documenting variation in color pattern. Biju, Kamei, Mahony, Thomas, Garg, Sircar, and Suyesh, 2013, Zootaxa, 3636: 257–289, provided an account, rediagnosed the taxon, redescribed the type, and discussed the range. A brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 163. Sivaprasad, 2013, Common Amph. Kerala: 214–215, provided a brief account, photograph, and dot map for Kerala, India. Raj, 2023, J. Threatened Taxa, 15: 24221–24223, reported on larval morphology.

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