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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
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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"
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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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Theloderma gordoni Taylor, 1962

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Theloderma > Species: Theloderma gordoni

Theloderma gordoni Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 511. Holotype: EHT 33741, by original designation; now FMNH 172248 according to Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 550. Type locality: "Doi Suthep, above 4000 ft., Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai province", Thailand.

Theloderma (Theloderma) gordoni — Poyarkov, Orlov, Moiseeva, Pawangkhanant, Ruangsuwan, Vassilieva, Galoyan, Nguyen, and Gogoleva, 2015, Russ. J. Herpetol., 22: 276.

Common Names

Gordon's Bug-eyed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114; Nguyen, Brakels, Maury, Sudavanh, Pawangkhanant, Idiiatullina, Lorphengsy, Inkhavilay, Suwannapoom, and Poyarkov, 2020, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 14 (2: e248): 229).

Gordon's Warted Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 152).

Large Warted Treefrog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 164).

Large Warted Tree Frog (Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 446).

Distribution

Known only from northwestern Thailand (Chiang Mai, Nan, and Loei provinces) and localities in northern Vietnam (provinces of Lao Cai, Lai Chau, Vinh Phu, Bac Thai, Cao Bang, Long Son, Gia Lai, and Kon Tun), as well as Simao, Puer Prefecture and Xishuangbanna Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China; Laos (Bolikamsai, Xekong, and Xaignabouli Provinces), and presumably in intervening western Guizhou, China, and possibly extreme northeastern and southeastern Cambodia; expected in eastern Myanmar.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Likely/Controversially Present: Cambodia, Myanmar

Comment

See comments and Vietnam record by Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 40. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 98, provided the range statement for Vietnam. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 164–165, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 42, provided specific localities for Vietnam. See Orlov, Dutta, Ghate, and Kent, 2006, Russ. J. Herpetol., 13: 155–175, for brief comments. Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Amph. E. Region Thailand: 141, detailed the range in Thailand. In the subgenus Theloderma, Theloderma leporosum species group of Poyarkov, Orlov, Moiseeva, Pawangkhanant, Ruangsuwan, Vassilieva, Galoyan, Nguyen, and Gogoleva, 2015, Russ. J. Herpetol., 22: 276. Qi, Yu, Lei, Fan, Zhang, Dong, Li, Orlov, and Hou, 2018, Russ. J. Herpetol., 25: 43–55, provided records from Yunnan, China. Kropachev, Evsyunin, Orlov, and Nguyen, 2018, J. Herpetol., 52: 348–351, reported on larval morphology. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 446–447, provided a brief account (description, photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). Makchai, Chuaynkern, Safoowong, Chuachat, and Cota, 2020, Amph. N. Thailand: 177, provided photographs, a brief account for Thailand, and a range map. Nguyen, Brakels, Maury, Sudavanh, Pawangkhanant, Idiiatullina, Lorphengsy, Inkhavilay, Suwannapoom, and Poyarkov, 2020, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 14 (2: e248): 218–249, briefly discussed the natural history and range and provided a record for Xaignabouli Province, Laos. Brakels, Maury, Phimmachak, and Nguyen, 2021, Herpetol. Rev., 52: 792, provided records from Bolikamsai and Xekong Provinces, Laos.

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