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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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Sclerophrys kisoloensis (Loveridge, 1932)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Sclerophrys > Species: Sclerophrys kisoloensis

Bufo regularis kisoloensis Loveridge, 1932, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 52. Holotype: FMNH 12005, by original designation. Type locality: "Kisolo, Kigezi district, southwestern Uganda".

Bufo regularis marakwetensis Roux, 1936 "1935", Mem. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, N.S., 4: 180. Syntypes: NHMB 4740–41; NHMB 4741 designated lectotype by Forcart, 1946, Verh. Naturforsch. Ges. Basel, 57: 121. Type locality: "Marakwet, st. 25, 2.500 m.", Kenya. Transferred from the synonymy of Bufo regularis to Bufo kisoloensis by Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 159.

Bufo kisoloensis — Laurent, 1952, Herpetologica, 8: 53; Laurent, 1972, Explor. Parc Natl. Virunga, Ser. 2, 22: 4.

Amietophrynus kisoloensis — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 363.

Sclerophrys kisoloensis — Ohler and Dubois, 2016, PeerJ, 4(e1553): 9.

English Names

Kisolo Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 42; Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 81; Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 79).

Montane Golden Toad (Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 79 [alternative name]).

Distribution

Forested highland areas of southwestern Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, eastern Dem. Rep. Congo, northeastern Zambia, western Tanzania, and Malawi (see comment); presumed to occur in Burundi but not so far collected there.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia

Likely/Controversially Present: Burundi

Comment

In the Bufo regularis group of Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 159. Removed from the synonymy of Bufo regularis by Laurent, 1952, Herpetologica, 8: 53, where it had been placed by Loveridge, 1942, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 91: 379, 385 (and so treated by Loveridge, 1957, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 117: 311). Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 81, Channing and Howell, 2006, Amph. E. Afr.: 79–80, Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 512–513, and Lötters, Wagner, Bwong, Schick, Malonza, Muchai, Wasonga, and Veith, 2007, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Kakamega Forest: 13–14, provided accounts. Mercurio, 2011, Amph. Malawi: 121–122, provided an account for Malawi, discussed the putative records and suggested that existing records may be based on misidentifications. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 131–132, reported on comparative tadpole morphology. Spawls, Wasonga, and Drewes, 2019, Amph. Kenya: 10, provided a range map for Kenya, photograph, and brief characterization. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 64–65, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map.. Kako-Wanzalire, Mongo, Ilonga, Mapoli, Mbumba, Neema, Tungaluna, Itoka, and Bogaert, 2021, Tropicultura, 39 (1: 1709): 1–19, briefly discussed habitat preference in Tshopo and Nord-Kivu, northern Dem. Rep. Congo. Dehling and Sinsch, 2023, Diversity, 15 (512): 1–81, discussed the range, identification, natural history, advertisement call, and conservation status in Rwanda. Behangana, Byaruhanga, Magala, Katumba, Kagurusi, Dendi, and Luiselli, 2023, Wetlands, 43(88): 1–13, reported on presence in the wetlands of southwestern Uganda.

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