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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"
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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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Leptopelis karissimbensis Ahl, 1929

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Arthroleptidae > Subfamily: Leptopelinae > Genus: Leptopelis > Species: Leptopelis karissimbensis

Leptopelis karissimbensis Ahl, 1929, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1929: 195. Holotype: ZMB unnumbered according to the original publication. Type locality: "Mtulia Gama am Karissimbi (Deutsch-Ost-Afrika)", Rwanda.

English Names

Karissimbi Forest Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 69).

Karissimbi Tree Frog (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 203).

Distribution

Forests and forest wetlands at moderate elevation on either side of the Albertine Rift, on the west side from east-central North Kivu Province south to east-central South Kivu Province, Dem. Rep. Congo; on the east side of the Albertine Rift from the volcanic highlands of southwestern Uganda south to southwestern Rwanda, into northwestern Burundi; 2000–2800 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Burundi, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Rwanda, Uganda

Comment

See brief accounts in De Witte, 1941, Explor. Parc Natl. Albert, Miss. G.F. de Witte (1933–1935), 33: 94–101 (in the sense of including other taxa as synonyms), Laurent, 1972, Explor. Parc Natl. Virunga, Ser. 2, 22: 50, Laurent, 1973, Ann. Mus. R. Afr. Cent., Tervuren, Ser. Octavo, Sci. Zool., 202: 45-49, Schiøtz, 1999, Treefrogs Afr.: 304, and Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 487–489. See Leptopelis kivuensis. Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 203, provided an account and noted its strong resemblance to Leptopelis kivuensis. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 290. Hölting, Böhme, and Schmitz, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 45–47, provided a record for southwestern Rwanda, discussed the range, and provided molecular evidence for the distinctiveness of this taxon from Leptopelis kivuensis. Roelke, Greenbaum, Chifundera, Aristote, and Smith, 2011, J. Herpetol., 45: 343–351, discussed the systematics and range of this species and the very similar Leptopelis kivuensis. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 111–112, reported on comparative tadpole morphology. Portillo, Greenbaum, Menegon, Chifundera, and Dehling, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 82: 75–86, discussed the phylogeography and species boundaries of the species. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 222–223, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Dehling and Sinsch, 2023, Diversity, 15 (512): 1–81, discussed the range, identification, natural history, advertisement call, and conservation status in Rwanda.

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