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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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Aubria masako Ohler and Kazadi, 1990

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pyxicephalidae > Subfamily: Pyxicephalinae > Genus: Aubria > Species: Aubria masako

Aubria masako Ohler and Kazadi, 1990 "1989", Alytes, 8: 29. Holotype: MNHNP 1989.2775, by original designation. Type locality: "Forêt de Masako près du village Batiabongena à 15 km du centre-ville de Kisangani sur l'ancienne route Buto (Zaïre)".

English Names

Masako Ball Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 98).

Masako Fishing Frog (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 352).

Distribution

Southern Cameroon east through southwestern Central African Republic and Rep. Congo to central Dem. Rep. Congo north of the Congo River; one record for Kakindo in south-central Angola (see comment); possibly into Equatorial Guinea.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Gabon

Likely/Controversially Present: Equatorial Guinea

Comment

Perret, 1995 "1994", Tropical Zool., 7: 268, cast doubt on the distinctiveness of this species from Aubria subsigillata. This taxon discussed and revalidated by Ohler, 1996, Alytes, 13: 141-166. See also comment under Aubria subsigillata. Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 284-285, provided an account and the Angola record. Jackson and Blackburn, 2007, Salamandra, 43: 149-164, provided a definitive record from the Rep. Congo. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 329–330, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Jongsma, Tobi, Dixon-MacCallum, Bamba-Kaya, Yoga, Mbega, Mve Beh, Emrich, and Blackburn, 2017, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 11 (1: e144): 16, provided a record for southeastern Gabon and briefly discussed habitat and range. Baptista, Conradie, Vaz Pinto, and Branch, 2019, In Huntley, Russo, Lages, and Ferrand (eds.), Biodiversity in Angola: 253, suggested that the Angola record requires confirmation inasmuch as the habitat appears to be wrong for this species. . Dewynter and Frétey, 2019, Cah. Fondation Biotope, 27: 39, summarized the literature for Gabon. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 352–353, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Badjedjea, Masudi, Akaibe, and Gvoždík, 2022, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 16 (1: e301): 62, commented on a population from the Kokolopori Bonobo Nature Reserve, Tshuapa Province, Dem. Rep. Congo.

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