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* = "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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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 rhododiscus (Liu and Hu, 1962)

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

Philautus rhododiscus Liu and Hu, 1962, Acta Zool. Sinica, 14 (Supplement): 73, 98, 104. Holotype: CIB 601818, by original designation. Type locality: "Yang-liu-chung, Yaoshan, altitude 1350 m, Kwangsi [= Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region]", China.

Philautus (Philautus) rhododiscus — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 53.

Theloderma rhododiscus — Yu, Rao, Yang, and Zhang, 2007, Zool. Res., Kunming, 28: 437-442.

Aquixalus rhododiscus — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 725.

Theloderma (Theloderma) rhododiscum — Poyarkov, Orlov, Moiseeva, Pawangkhanant, Ruangsuwan, Vassilieva, Galoyan, Nguyen, and Gogoleva, 2015, Russ. J. Herpetol., 22: 276. Gender correction in error. Art. 34.2.1 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999) requires that rhododiscus be treated as a noun in apposition (K. Kunz, personal commun. to DRF on 12 Jan 2016).

Common Names

Chinese Bubble-nest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 112 [as Philautus rhododiscus]).

Red-disked Small Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 262).

Chinese Bug-eyed Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 64).

Distribution

Isolated populations in southern Hunan to Guangdong, much of northern Guangxi and northern Fujian, China, and expected in Guizhou, Yunnan, Hainan, and Jiangxi.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 262-263, provided a brief account, figure, and map (as Philautus rhododiscus). Zhang and Wen, 2000, Amph. Guangxi: 122, provided an account for Guangxi (as Philautus rhododiscus). Yu, Rao, Yang, and Zhang, 2008, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 153: 733-749, provided evidence consistent with the transfer of Philautus rhododiscus to Theloderma. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Philautus rhododiscus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 634. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 725-727, provided an account (as Aquixalus rhododiscus) and a spot map. Wiens, Sukumaran, Pyron, and Brown, 2009, Evolution, 63: 1217-1231, corroborated the placement of this species in Theloderma. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 438, provided a brief account (as Aquixalus rhododiscus) including photographs of specimens. Li, Chen, Li, Lv, and Wang, 2011, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 2: 136, provided photographs of the holotype. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 524, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Hou, Yu, Chen, Liao, Zhang, Chen, Li, and Orlov, 2017, Russ. J. Herpetol., 24: 119–120, discussed the range in China. Li, 2011, Amph. Rept. Guangdong: 68, provided a brief account, as Aquixalus rhododiscus, for Guangdong, China, and photograph. Du, Wang, Liu, and Yu, 2022, ZooKeys, 1099: 128, transferred populations from northern Vietnam to Theloderma hekouense.

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