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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.
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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 nigropunctatus (Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1962)

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

Rhacophorus nigropunctatus Liu, Hu, and Yang, 1962, Acta Zool. Sinica, 14: 388. Holotype: CIB 590405, by original designation. Type locality: "Long-chu [Longjie], Weining, altitude 2,134 meters", western Guizhou, China.

Polypedates nigropunctatus — Jiang, Hu, and Zhao, 1987, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 6 (1): 34; Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990, Key to Chinese Amph.: 185; Orlov, Lathrop, Murphy, and Ho, 2001, Russ. J. Herpetol., 8: 28.

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

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

English Names

Weining Flying Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114).

Black-snouted Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 288).

Black-spotted Treefrog (Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 468).

Distribution

Isolated populations in central and southwestern China: Anhui (Yuexi county), western Guizhou (Weining and Leishan counties), and western Yunnan (Longling and Pingbian counties), Hunan (Sangzhi and Chengbu counties), China, 600–2100 m elevation; northwestern Vietnam (see comment).

Comment

Considered to be a member of Polypedates by Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 157, and Orlov, Lathrop, Murphy, and Ho, 2001, Russ. J. Herpetol., 8: 29. Related to Rhacophorus schlegelii, according to the original publication. M. Matsui In Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 546, this to refer to Rhacophorus javanus. Yang, 1991, Amph. Fauna of Yunnan: 216–218, and Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 288–289, provided account (as Rhacophorus nigropunctatus). See comment under Polypedates dorsoviridis, with which this species may be conspecific. Li and Hu, 1996, Zool. Res., Kunming, 17: 483–488, reported on karyology. See also brief account by Zhao and Yang, 1997, Amph. Rept. Hengduan Mountains Region: 126–127. Yang, 2008, in Yang and Rao (ed.), Amph. Rept. Yunnan: 115–116, provided a brief account for Yunnan, China. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Polypedates nigropunctatus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 635. Yu, Rao, Zhang, and Yang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 50: 571–579, did not recover this species as monophyletic in a molecular analysis, suggesting that multiple species may be involved. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 857–861, provided an account, spot map, and considered this species a member of their Rhacophorus dugritei group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 468–69, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Li, Chen, Li, Lv, and Wang, 2011, Asian Herpetol. Res., Ser. 2, 2: 133, provided photographs of the holotype. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 552–553, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. Li, Li, Murphy, Rao, and Zhang, 2012, Zool. Scripta, 41: 557–570, discussed the confused state of understanding of Rhacophorus dorsoviridis and Rhacophorus nigropunctatus. Shen, 2014, Fauna Hunan, Amph.: 328–331, provided an account for Hunan, China. Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 65, repeated this concern for records of Zhangixalus nigropunctatus from Vietnam being likely referrable to Zhangixalus dorsoviridis; presumably at least some of this concern extends from the results of Mo, Chen, Liao, and Zhou, 2016, Asian Herpetol. Res., 7: 146, which show samples of nominal Rhacophorus nigropunctatus from Jingping and Pingbian, Yunnan, China, phylogenetically close to Rhacophorus dorsoviridis from Lao Cai, Vietnam, and distant from Rhacophorus nigropunctatus from the type locality in Longling, Yunnan, China.

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