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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 prasinatus (Mou, Risch, and Lue, 1983)

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

Rhacophorus prasinatus Mou, Risch, and Lue, 1983, Alytes, 2: 155. Holotype: NTNUB 054901, by original designation. Type locality: "Hou-keng-tzu, Shih-ting area, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, 24° 54′ N, 121° 37′ E; altitude 220 m. The Hou-keng-tzu valley brook is a tributary of Pei-shih stream of Feitsui Valley".

Rhacophorus smaragdinus Lue and Mou, 1984 "1983", Q. J. Taiwan Mus., 36: 15. Holotype: NTNUB 054901, by original designation. Type locality: abandoned farm house about 220 m. above sea level in Hou-K'eng-tzu (), near Feitsui Valley [=Feichui-ku, or Emerald Valley], Taipei Hsien", Taiwan, China. Synonymy by fact of sharing a holotype with Rhacophorus prasinatus. Potential secondary homonym of Polypedates smaragdinus Blyth, 1852.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) prasinatus — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77.

Polypedates prasinatus — Chou, 1993, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 5: 11-13.

Rhacophorus prasinatus — Wilkinson, Drewes, and Tatum, 2002, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 24: 272.

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

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

Common Names

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

Green Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 282).

Emerald Green Treefrog (Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 46).

Emerald Treefrog (Guo, Yang, and Li, 2009, Colored Illust. Amph. Rept. Taiwan: 120).

Distribution

Northern Taiwan (Taipei, Ilan, and Taoyuan), 400-600 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Taiwan

Endemic: Taiwan

Comment

Type locality has subsequently been destroyed by a reservoir impoundment, according to Lue and Mou, 1984 "1983", Q. J. Taiwan Mus., 36: 16. See Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 158, for dates of publication. Lue, Lai, and Chen, 1994, Herpetologica, 50: 303-308, compared this species with others from Taiwan as Rhacophorus smaragdinus. In the Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) schlegelii group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77; see comment under Rhacophorus for dissenting opinion regarding the recognition of this group. Chou, 1993, Asiat. Herpetol. Res., 5: 11-13, transferred this species to Polypedates, from the Rhacophorus schelegeli group. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 282-284, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Wilkinson, Drewes, and Tatum, 2002, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 24: 265-273, presented molecular and morphological evidence for retaining this species in Rhacophorus. Lue, Tu, and Hsiang, 1999, Atlas Taiwan Amph. Rept.: 46-47, provided a brief account for Taiwan. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 635. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 830-834, provided an account, spot map, and considered this species a member of their Rhacophorus moltrechti group. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 467, provided a brief account including photograph. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 551, provided an account, photographs, and a range map. Guo, Yang, and Li, 2009, Colored Illust. Amph. Rept. Taiwan: 120–121, provided a brief account, photographs, and map.

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