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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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Rana iberica Boulenger, 1879

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Rana > Species: Rana iberica

Rana iberica Boulenger, 1879, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 4: 177. Syntypes: 4 specimens (IRSNB 1.004 according to Lang, 1990, Doc. Trav., Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg., 59: 12, and possibly MNHNP [by implication of being sent to Lataste, although his collection seems to have been disbursed to several other collections, including BMNH]). Type locality: "Coïmbre" (= Coimbra), Portugal (Mus. Bruxelles), "Espagne" [Spain] (Lataste coll.) and "Pontevedra", Spain (deposition unknown); restricted to "Coimbra, Portugal" by Mertens and Müller, 1928, Abh. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 41: 20.

Rana temporaria iberica — Bedriaga, 1881, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou, 56: 300.

Rana (Crotaphitis) fusca — Schulze, 1891, Jahresber. Abhandl. Naturwiss. Ver. Magdeburg, 1890: 176.

Rana (Rana) iberica — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 41-42, by implication; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333; Yuan, Zhou, Chen, Poyarkov, Chen, Jang-Liaw, Chou, Matzke, Iizuka, Min, Kuzmin, Zhang, Cannatella, Hillis, and Che, 2016, Syst. Biol., 65: 835.

Rana (Laurasiarana) iberica — Hillis and Wilcox, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 34: 311, by implication; see Dubois, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 317-330, and Hillis, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 42: 331-338, for discussion.

English Names

Iberian Frog (Hellmich, 1962, Rept. Amph. Eur.: 66; Arnold and Burton, 1978, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Brit. Eur.: 83; Stumpel-Rienks, 1992, Ergänzungsband Handbuch Rept. Amph. Eur., Trivialnamen der Herpetofauna Eur.: 57; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107; Crespo, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 142; Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 87).

Distribution

Central and northern Portugal; to northern and central Spain, in montane areas up to 2425 m elevation.

Comment

In the Section Rana, subgenus Rana, Rana temporaria group of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 333. Records for this species from the Pyrenees are based on misidentifications according to Boulenger, 1898, Tailless Batr. Eur., 2: 325; and Dubois, 1982, Alytes, 1: 56-70. Mensi, Lattes, Macario, Salvidio, Giacoma, and Balletto, 1992, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 105: 293-311, reported on phylogenetic relationships. Crespo, 1997, in Gasc et al. (eds.), Atlas Amph. Rept. Eur.: 142-143, discussed range and relevant literature. Barbadillo-Escrivá, 1987, Guia INCAFO Anf. Rept. Peninsula Iberica: 178-181, provided an account. Nöllert and Nöllert, 1992, Die Amph. Eur.: 338-341, provided an account and polygon map. Arnold, 2002, Rept. Amph. Eur., Ed. 2: 87, provided a brief account, figure, and map, as did Günther IN Engelmann, Fritzsche, Günther, and Obst, 1993, Lurche Kriechtiere Eur.: 165-166. Esteban, 1997, in Pleguezuelos (ed.), Dist. Biogeogr. Anf. Rep. Esp. Portugal: 161-163, provided a brief account, photograph, and detailed map. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Rana iberica) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 632. Speybroeck, Beukema, Bok, and Van Der Voort, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Brit. Eur.: 176–179, provided a brief account and range map. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 93, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology, a range map, as well as a photograph.

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