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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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Ichthyophis garoensis Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Ichthyophiidae > Genus: Ichthyophis > Species: Ichthyophis garoensis

Ichthyophis garoensis Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 172: 28. Holotype: ZSI-S 18458, by original designation; now amalgamated into ZSIC. Type locality: "Anogiri Lake, Garo Hills, Meghalaya", India.

Ichthyophis husaini Pillai and Ravichandran, 1999, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 172: 36. Holotype: ZSIS 18426, by original designation. Type locality: "Thebronggiri Coffee Garden, Rongram, Garo Hills, Meghalaya", India. Synonymy by Kamei and Biju, 2016, Zootaxa, 4079: 140.

Common Names

Garo Hills Caecilian (Ahmed, Das, and Dutta, 2009, Amph. Rept. NE India: 53; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 129).

Husain's Caecilian (Ichthyophis husaini [no longer recognized]: Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 129; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 131).

Garo Hillis Striped Caecilian (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 16).

Distribution

Garo Hills, Meghalaya, to Assam, India; southeastern Bangladesh (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bangladesh, India

Comment

Choudhury, Hussain, Buruah, Saikia, and Sengupta, 2002, Hamadryad, 26: 279-280, commented on the range in Assam, India. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 206–207, provided brief accounts as both Ichthyophis garoensis and Ichthyophis husaini. Ravichandran, 2004, Hamadryad, 28: 98-104, summarized range. Ahmed, Das, and Dutta, 2009, Amph. Rept. NE India: 53, provided a brief account. Kamei, Wilkinson, Gower, and Biju, 2009, Zootaxa, 2267: 26-42, did not map Assam as part of the range. Mathew and Sen, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 309: 16-17, reported on additional specimens. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 128-130, provided a brief characterization and photograph. Dutta, 2003 "2002", Hamadryad, 27: 157, noted records from Assam and appeared to doubt the distinctiveness of Ichthophis husaini from Ichthyophis sikkimensis. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 131-132, provided a brief characterization and photograph as Ichthophis husaini. Kamei and Biju, 2016, Zootaxa, 4079: 140–150, examined and discussed the holotypes of Ichthyophis husaini and Ichthyophis garoensis and made the synonymy. Rahman, Nneji, and Hossain, 2022, J. Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 15: 152, included the species in the Bangladesh fauna but did not reference specimens.

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