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
	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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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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Buergeria oxycephala (Boulenger, 1900 "1899")

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Buergeriinae > Genus: Buergeria > Species: Buergeria oxycephala

Rhacophorus oxycephalus Boulenger, 1900 "1899", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899: 959. Syntypes: BMNH (4 specimens), by original designation; these being 1947.2.7.70–73 (formerly 1899.11.30.13–16) according to museum records. Type locality: "Five-finger Mountains, in the interior of the island", Hainan, China.

Polypedates oxycephalus — Gee and Boring, 1929, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull., 4: 36, 41; Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 576.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) oxycephalus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 117.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) buergeri oxycephalus — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 168.

Rana oxycephalus — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 134.

Hylorana oxycephalus — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 144.

Rhacophorus oxycephalus — Tian, Jiang, Wu, Hu, Zhao, and Huang, 1986, Handb. Chinese Amph. Rept.: 64.

Buergeria oxycephalus — Jiang, Hu, and Zhao, 1987, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 6 (1): 34; Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 152; Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 316; Song, Jang, Zou, and Shi, 2002, Herpetol. Sinica, 9: 71.

Rhacophorus (Leptomantis) oxycephalus — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 76.

Rhacohorus oxycephalus — Harvey, Pemberton, and Smith, 2002, Herpetol. Monogr., 16: 47, by implication.

English Names

Red-headed Flying Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114).

Hainan Stream Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 250).

Distribution

Hilly areas of central and southwestern Hainan Island, China, 80–800 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of

Endemic: China, People's Republic of

Comment

See account (as Polypedates oxycephalus) by Pope, 1931, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 61: 576–581. Considered a member of Buergeria by Jiang, Hu, and Zhao, 1987, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 6 (1): 34, Zhao and Adler, 1993, Herpetol. China: 152; and Ye, Fei, and Hu, 1993, Rare and Economic Amph. China: 316, who provided an account. Placed in Rhacophorus (Leptomantis) by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 76, but this has not been followed by authors; see comment under Rhacophorus regarding the status of Leptomantis. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 250–251, provided a brief account, a map, and figure. Yang and Zhao, 2005, Sichuan J. Zool., 24: 309–311, provided two specific localities and habitat. See illustration, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Buergeria oxycephalus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 516. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 660–664, provided an account and spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 423, provided a brief account including photographs of specimens and habitat. Shi, 2011, Amph. Rept. Fauna Hainan: 72–75, provided an account. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 496, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China.

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