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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 pardalis Günther, 1858

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

Rhacophorus pardalis Günther, 1858, Arch. Naturgesch., 24: 325. Syntypes: BMNH (6 specimens) according to Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 83, of which five are BMNH 1844.10.17.58 (now renumbered 1947.2.9.3), 1856.9.27.5 (now renumbered 1947.2.9.4–5), 1933.9.10.33 (now renumbered 1947.2.9.1), 1933.9.10.34 (now renumbered 1947.2.9.2) by museum records. Type localities: "Philippinen" and "Borneo"; later rendered as "Philippines", "Borneo", and "East Indies" by Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 83, but subsequently rendered as "Borneo" and "Philippines" by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 91.

Rhacophorus rizali Boettger, 1897, Abh. Ber. Zool. Anthropol. Ethnograph. Mus. Dresden, 7: 1. Holotype: MTD 1537, destroyed according to Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002, Herpetol. Monogr., 16: 81. Type locality: "Dapitan auf Mindanao (Philippines)". Synonymy Boulenger, 1898, Zool. Rec., 34: 30; Taylor, 1920, Philipp. J. Sci., 16: 221; Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 160; Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 204; Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 370.

Rhacophorus pulchellus Werner, 1900, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 13: 495. Types: NHMB 1186 according to Forcart, 1946, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 57: 131; reported as NHMB 1187 by Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002, Herpetol. Monogr., 16: 81. Type locality: "Djapura, Indragiri", Sumatra, Indonesia. Synonymy by Roux, 1918, Rev. Suisse Zool., 26: 415; Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 263; Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 207.

Polypedates pardalis — Taylor, 1920, Philipp. J. Sci., 16: 281.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) pardalis — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 160; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77; Mahony, Kamei, Brown, and Chan, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 253, by implication.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) pulchellus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 166.

Rhacophorus pardalis pardalis — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 204.

Rhacophorus pardalis pulchellus — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 207. Distinction from Rhacophorus pardalis pardalis rejected by Inger, 1954, Fieldiana, Zool., 33: 371–372.

Rhacophorus pardalis rhyssocephalus Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 206. Holotype: MTD 786, destroyed according to Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002, Herpetol. Monogr., 16: 81. Type locality: "Sangi", Indonesia.

Rhacophorus rhyssocephalus — Inger and Voris, 2001, J. Biogeograph., 28: 886. Undiscussed arrangement.

Common Names

Panther Flying Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114).

Harlequin Treefrog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 160; Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 165).

Harlequin Tree Frog (Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 438).

Gliding Tree Frog (Gaulke, 2011, Herpetofauna Panay Island: 116).

Panther Flying Treefrog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 61).

Distribution

Peninsular Thailand, Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, and Philippines.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Malaysia, East (Sarawak and/or Sabah), Malaysia, West (Peninsular), Philippines, Thailand

Comment

In the Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) pardalis group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77; see comment under Rhacophorus for dissenting opinion regarding the recognition of this group. See Inger, 1966, Fieldiana, Zool., 52: 330–333 (who discussed subspecific variation), and Berry, 1975, Amph. Fauna Peninsular Malaysia: 105–106, for accounts. See account by Brown and Alcala, 1994, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 48: 209. See brief account and photo by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 133–134. See account by Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002, Herpetol. Monogr., 16: 81–82. Malkmus, Manthey, Vogel, Hoffmann, and Kosuch, 2002, Amph. Rept. Mount Kinabalu: 216–217, provided an account. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 160–161, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Das, Jankowski, Makmor, and Haas, 2007, Mitt. Hamburg. Zool. Mus. Inst., 104: 165, provided a brief description for Sarawak. Das, 2007, Amph. Rept. Brunei: 81, provided a photograph and brief account. Gaulke, 2011, Herpetofauna Panay Island: 116–118, provided a brief account for Panay Island, Philippines. See brief notes for Mindanao, Philippines, by Sanguila, Cobb, Siler, Diesmos, Alcala, and Brown, 2016, ZooKeys, 624: 53–54. Haas, Kueh, Joseph, bin Asri, Das, Hagmann, Schwander, and Hertwig, 2018, Evol. Syst., 2: 89–114, provided a brief account of morphology and natural history for the Sabah population. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 438–439, provided a brief account (description, photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). O'Connell, Hamidy, Kurniawan, Smith, and Fujita, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 123: 101–112, discussed molecular phylogeography regarding the population on Sumatra. Gillespie, Ahmad, and Shia, 2021, Field Guide Frog Lower Kinabatangan Region Sabah: 47, provided a brief account, summarizing identification and life history in the Lower Kinabatangan Region, Sabah, Malaysia. Haas, Das, Hertwig, Bublies, and Schulz-Schaeffer, 2022, Guide to the Tadpoles of Borneo: 391–393, summarized the knowledge of habitat, reproduction, larval morphology and coloration. Meneses, Siler, Alviola, Balatibat, Gonzalez, Natividad, and Brown, 2022, Check List, 18: 941–984, discussed its habitat on Sibuyan I, Philippines.

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