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* = "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.
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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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Pseudophilautus femoralis (Günther, 1864)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Pseudophilautus > Species: Pseudophilautus femoralis

Ixalus femoralis Günther, 1864, Rept. Brit. India: 434. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.26.89 (formerly 1858.6.15.13) according to Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 20. Type locality: "Ceylon" (= Sri Lanka).

Ixalus pulchellus Günther, 1872, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 4, 9: 88. Holotype: BMNH 71.12.16.7 (formerly 1871.12.16.7) according to Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 25. Type locality: "Peradeniya ... collected chiefly in the neighbourhood of the locality named .... Ceylon", Sri Lanka. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 101, and Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005, Raffles Bull. Zool., Suppl., 12: 185. This synonymy discussed by Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996, Amph. Fauna Sri Lanka: 144.

Ixalus Fergusonii Günther, 1876, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 4, 17: 379. Syntypes: BMNH 76.3.21.39 (2 specimens according to the original publication); BMNH 1947.2.26.91 (formerly 76.3.21.39) designated lectotype by Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 27, and described on page 72–73. Type locality: "Ceylon" = Sri Lanka. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 101, and Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005, Raffles Bull. Zool., Suppl., 12: 185. This synonymy discussed by Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996, Amph. Fauna Sri Lanka: 144.

Rhacophorus (Philautus) femoralis — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 53, 78.

Philautus femoralis — Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 553.

Philautus pulchellus — Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1985 "1984", J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 553.

Philautus fergusonii — Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1985 "1984", J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 553.

Philautus (Philautus) femoralis — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 21.

Kirtixalus femoralis — Yu, Rao, Zhang, and Yang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 50: 578.

Pseudophilautus femoralis — Li, Che, Murphy, Zhao, Zhao, Rao, and Zhang, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 53: 519.

English Names

Southwestern Bubble-nest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 112).

Plain Green Bush Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 66).

Green Bush Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 155).

Round-snout Pygmy Tree Frog (Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 147).

Leaf-nesting Shrub Frog (de Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 98).

Distribution

Central hills of Sri Lanka, 1600–2135 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Sri Lanka

Endemic: Sri Lanka

Comment

See accounts by Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1985 "1984", J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 553, Dutta and Manamendra-Arachchi, 1996, Amph. Fauna Sri Lanka: 142–145, and Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 154–155. Kuramoto and Joshy, 2003, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 22: 59, noted that detailed comparisons had not been done between South India and Sri Lankan populations implying that such comparisons would likely allow the discovery of additional species. See account by and Manamendra-Arachchi and Pethiyagoda, 2005, Raffles Bull. Zool., Suppl., 12: 185–187, who noted that this species resembles Pseudophilautus viridis (as Philautus). Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 78, provided systematic notes, access to literature, and range. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 146–147, provided an account. 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: 522, who restricted the range to Sri Lanka, with records from India considered to have been based on misidentifications. de Silva, 2009, Amph. Rep. Sri Lanka Photograph. Guide: 98, provided a brief account and color photograph.

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