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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 vampyrus Rowley, Le, Thi, Stuart, and Hoang, 2010

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

Rhacophorus vampyrus Rowley, Le, Thi, Stuart, and Hoang, 2010, Zootaxa, 2727: 46. Holotype: AMS R 173127, by original designation. Type locality: " Bidoup-Nui Ba National Park, Lac Duong District, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam (12.1865° N, 108.7151° E, 1625 m)".

Vampyrius vampyrus — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 262.

Common Names

Vampire Tree Frog (original publication).

Distribution

Known from the vicinity of the type locality (Bidoup-Nui Ba National Park, Lac Duong District, Lam Dong Provice) and Ta Dung Nature Reserve, Dak Nong Province, in montane evergreen forest at 1470 to 2004 m elevation on the Langbian Plateau of southern Vietnam.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Vietnam

Endemic: Vietnam

Comment

In the Rhacophorus calcaneus group of Orlov, Poyarkov, Vassilieva, Ananjeva, Nguyen, Sang, and Geissler, 2012, Russ. J. Herpetol., 19:23–64. Rowley, Tran, Le, Hoang, and Altig, 2012, J. Nat. Hist., London, 46: 2969–2978, reported on larval life history and provided a second locality for the species. Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 427, considered this species to represent a monotypic genus, Vampyrius, forming, on the basis of low statistical support and solely on 600 bp of mtDNA, the sister taxon of Gracixalus. Nguyen, Matsui, Eto, and Orlov, 2014, Russ. J. Herpetol., 21: 274, rejected on the basis of 434 bp of mtDNA membership in the Rhacophorus calcaneus group. Chan, Hutter, Wood, Grismer, and Brown, 2020, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. B, Biol. Sci., 287 (20202102): 20, recovered Rhacophorus vampyrus as deeply imbedded within Rhacophorus on the basis of significantly improved molecular support. Vera Candioti, Dias, Rowley, Hertwig, Haas, and Altig, 2021, J. Morphol., 282: 769–778, reported on larval morphology.

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