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
	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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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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Rhacophorus margaritifer (Schlegel, 1837)

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

Hyla margaritifera Schlegel, 1837, Abbild. Neuer Unvollst. Amph., 1: 107. Syntypes: Not stated, but RMNH 1911 (2 specimens) according to Gassó Miracle, van den Hoek Ostende, and Arntzen, 2007, Zootaxa, 1482: 44. Type locality: "Java". Placed by Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 187 (as Rhacophorus schlegeli margaritifer) in the synonymy of Rhacophorus schlegelii and in the synonymy of Rhacophorus javanus by Liem, 1973 "1971", Philipp. J. Sci., 100: 153.

Rhacophorus margaritiferus — Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 75.

Rhacophorus javanus Boettger, 1893, Zool. Anz., 16: 338. Holotype: SMF 6982, according to Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 49. Type locality: "Vulkan Tjisurupan, West-Java"", Indonesia.

Rhacophorus javanicus — Boulenger, 1894, Zool. Rec., 30: 35. Misspelling.

Polypedates javanus — Barbour, 1912, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 44: pl. 2.

Rhacophorus javanus — Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 254.

Rhacophorus barbouri Ahl, 1927, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1927: 45. Holotype: ZMB. Type locality: "Westjava", Indonesia. Synonymy by Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 187. Regarded as distinct, without discussion, by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 138.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) javanus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 148.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) barbouri — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 156.

Rhacophorus schlegeli margaritifer — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 187.

Rhacophorus javanus — Liem, 1973 "1971", Philipp. J. Sci., 100: 153.

Rhacophorus margaritifer — Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002, Herpetol. Monogr., 16: 75.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) margaritifer — Mahony, Kamei, Brown, and Chan, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 253, by implication.

Common Names

Java Flying Frog (Rhacophorus javanus [not now recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 113).

Javan Tree Frog (Rhacophorus javanus [not now recognized]: Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 90).

Distribution

Isolated populations on Java (Jawa Barat, Jawa Tangah, and Jawa Timur), Indonesia, above 1000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Indonesia

Endemic: Indonesia

Comment

Not assigned to subgenus by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77. Placed in the synonymy of Rhacophorus schlegelii margaritifer by Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 187. Liem, 1973 "1971", Philipp. J. Sci., 100: 154, noted that this species had once occurred on Bogor I., but is now extinct there. Iskandar, 1998, Amph. Java Bali: 90-91, provided a brief account (as Rhacophorus javanus) and noted its similarity to Rhacophorus rufipes. See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 122-123, to compare this species (as Rhacophorus javanus) to other rhacophorids of the Sunda Shelf region. See account by Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002, Herpetol. Monogr., 16: 75-81. 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. O'Connell, Hamidy, Kurniawan, Smith, and Fujita, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 123: 101–112, discussed molecular phylogenetics. Nilawati, Hernawati, and Taufik, 2019, Biodiversitas, 20: 1644–1649, reported on habitat and population characteristics in West Java, Indonesia. See brief account for East Java by Amin, 2020, Frogs of East Java: 66–68.

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