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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 napoensis Li, Liu, Yu, and Sun, 2022

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

Rhacophorus napoensis Li, Liu, Yu, and Sun, 2022, ZooKeys, 1117: 130. Holotype: GXNU YU000172, by original designation. Type locality: "near several large rocks in the bushes, 306 m southeast of Nongyao, Napo County, Baise City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China (23°1'20"N, 105°50'58"E, ca 1032 m a.s.l.)." https://zoobank.org/66C47824-DE9B-4EA7-AFF1-CFBA0F8D239E

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

English Names

Napo Tree Frog (original publication).

Distribution

Known from the type locality (ca. Nongyao, Napo County, Baise City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, 1032 m elevation) and Bac Giang, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa, and Ha Tinh provinces, northern Vietnam; expected in Khammouan, Bolikhamxay, and Xiangkhoang provinces of central Laos as well as well as expected to be found to be more widespread in southeastern Yunnan Province and Jinxiu County of Guangxi Province, China.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, Vietnam

Likely/Controversially Present: Laos

Comment

The sister taxon of a group composed of Rhacophorus rhodopus, Rhacophorus borneensis, Rhacophorus norhyatii, and Rhacophorus reinwardtii and most similar to Rhacophorus bipunctatus and Rhacophorus rhodopus according to the original publication, where comparative morphology, and molecular markers were detailed. Nguyen, Liu, Wilkinson, Tran, Tran, Trofimets, Dau, and Poyarkov, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 123–136, reported the species from several localities in northern Vietnam, and noted localities where this species had previously been misidentified as Rhacophorus rhodopus. Tang, Xiao, Liu, Wang, Yu, and Du, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 625–643, reported on the molecular phylogenetics, adult morphology, and distribution of this species as part of the Rhacophorus bipunctatus/Rhacophorus rhodopus complex. Lee, Liu, Ouyang, Ai, Liu, He, Huang, Li, Naveen, Yuan, and Chen, 2024, Zoosyst. Evol., 100: 851–862, discussed the relationships of the species on the basis of 16S mtDNA evidence.

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