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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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Zhangixalus dorsoviridis (Bourret, 1937)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Zhangixalus > Species: Zhangixalus dorsoviridis

Rhacophorus schlegelii dorsoviridis Bourret, 1937, Annexe Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique, Hanoi, 1937: 47. Holotype: MNHNP 1948.149 (formerly LSNUH B.143), according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 52. Type locality: "Chapa" (= Sa Pa), Lao Cai, Vietnam.

Polypedates dorsoviridis — Orlov, Lathrop, Murphy, and Ho, 2001, Russ. J. Herpetol., 8: 25.

Rhacophorus dorsoviridis — Rao, Wilkinson, and Liu, 2006, Zootaxa, 1258: 17, by implication.

Zhangixalus dorsoviridis — Jiang, Jiang, Ren, Wu, and Li, 2019, Asian Herpetol. Res., 10: 7.

Rhacophorus (Zhangixalus) dorsoviridis — Mahony, Kamei, Brown, and Chan, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 253, by implication.

Common Names

Green-back Treefrog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 37).

Distribution

Montane Lao Cai, Lai Chau, and Son La provinces, Vietnam; Daweishan National Nature Reserve, Pingbian County, Yunnan, China.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

Orlov, Lathrop, Murphy, and Ho, 2001, Russ. J. Herpetol., 8: 25-29, provided an account and noted that it was possibly conspecific with Polypedates nigropunctatus, in which case the name Polypedates dorsoviridis would have priority. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 95, commented on the Vietnamese distribution. Orlov, Nguyen, and Ho, 2008, Russ. J. Herpetol., 15: 67-84, provided a photograph and a key to differentiate this species from others in Vietnam. Zhang, Jiang, and Hou, 2011, Acta Zootaxon. Sinica, 36: 986-989, provided a record for Yunnan, China, and commented on the distinctiveness of this species from Rhacophorus nigropunctatus. Li, Li, Murphy, Rao, and Zhang, 2012, Zool. Scripta, 41: xxx, discussed the confused state of understanding of Rhacophorus dorsoviridis and Rhacophorus nigropunctatus. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 540, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for Chinay Mo, Chen, Liao, and Zhou, 2016, Asian Herpetol. Res., 7: 139–150, on the basis of molecular evidence considered this species to be the sister taxon of Rhacophorus pinglongensis. Pham, Nguyen, Ziegler, and Nguyen, 2017, Herpetol. Notes, 10: 379–381, provided records for Son La Province, Vietnam, with notes on morphology and ecology. Dufresnes, Ambu, Prasad, Borzée, and Litvinchuk, 2022, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 135: 40–51, noted that this binomial covers additional cryptic species. See comments under Zhangixalus dorsoviridis with respect to Vietnam records.

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