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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 stellatum Taylor, 1962

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

Theloderma stellatum Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 514. Holotype: EHT 35441, by original designation; now FMNH 172249 according to Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 550. Type locality: "Khao Sebab (mt.), circa 18 km NE of Chanthaburi (town) near 'the waterfall,' Chanthaburi Prov., Thailand".

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

Common Names

Taylor's Bug-eyed Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114).

Purple-spotted Warted Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 152).

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

Chantaburi Warted Tree Frog (Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 456./.

Spotted Warty Tree Frog (Neang and Holden, 2008, Field Guide Amph. Cambodia: 116).

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

Distribution

Southern non-peninsular Thailand from Uthai Thani Province to Nakor Ratchasrima Province and south to Trat and Chanthaburi Provinces and into the Cardomon Mountains of southwestern Cambodia and Phnom Kulen National Park of northwestern Cambodia (see comment); likely extending into northern peninsular Myanmar.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cambodia, Thailand

Likely/Controversially Present: Myanmar

Comment

See comments by Inger, Orlov, and Darevsky, 1999, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 92: 42, and Vietnam record. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 98, provided a statement of range in Vietnam (not assignable to Theloderma vietnamense). 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: 41, provided specific localities for Vietnam, now assignable to Theloderma vietnamense. Stuart, Sok, and Neang, 2006, Raffles Bull. Zool., 54: 143, provided a record for hilly eastern Cambodia, now presumably assignable to Theloderma vietnamense. Stuart and Emmett, 2006, Fieldiana, Zool., N.S., 109: 12, provided a records for the Cadamom Mountains, southwestern Cambodia. See Orlov, Dutta, Ghate, and Kent, 2006, Russ. J. Herpetol., 13: 155–175, for brief comments. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 636, written prior to the recognition of Theloderma vietnamense. Neang and Holden, 2008, Field Guide Amph. Cambodia: 116, provided a photograph, brief account of identification, ecology, and range in Cambodia. Nguyen and Nguyen, 2008, Herpetol. Notes, 1: 61–62, provided a record for Kien Giang Province, southern Vietnam, now assignable to Theloderma vietnamense. Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Amph. E. Region Thailand: 92–93, provided a photograph and brief account for the Eastern Region of Thailand, and (p. 141), detailed the range in Thailand. Luu, Nguyen, Pham, Dang, Vu, Miskovic, Bonkowski, and Ziegler, 2013, Biodiversity J., 4: 285–300, reported the species in Phong Nha—Ke Bang National Park, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam, now assignable to Theloderma vietnamense. See comments by Geissler, Hartmann, Ihlow, Neang, Seng, Wagner, and Böhme, 2019, Cambodian J. Nat. Hist., 2019: 40–63, on specimens (of Theloderma cf. stellatum) collected in Phnom Kulen National Park, northern Cambodia. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 456–457, provided a brief account (description, photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). Ginal, Flecks, and Hartmann, 2023, Salamandra, 59: 87–91, discussed the range, provided a dot map, and noted that genetic confirmation is likely required to identify this species from Theloderma vietnamense.

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