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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.
* = "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
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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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Raorchestes menglaensis (Kou, 1990)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Raorchestes > Species: Raorchestes menglaensis

Philautus menglaensis Kou, 1990, in Zhao (ed.), From Water onto Land: 210, 212. Holotype: YU A845090, by original designation. Type locality: "Zhishihe, Mengla County, Yunnan Province, China, alt. 900 m".

Philautus (Philautus) menglaensis — Bossuyt and Dubois, 2001, Zeylanica, 6: 59.

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

Aquixalus menglaensis — Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 722. See comment under Philautus.

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

Raorchestes menglaensis — Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010, Curr. Sci., Bangalore, 98: 1120, by implication.

Liuixalus menglaensis — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 513.

English Names

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

Mengla Small Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 260).

Mengla Bush Frog (Jiang, Ren, Wang, Guo, Wang, Liu, Jiang, and Li, 2020, Asian Herpetol. Res., 11: 267).

Mengla Shrub Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 60).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Zhishihe) and Menglun, Mengla County, Yunnan, China, on the Chinese border of extreme northwestern Vietnam; Lan Son, Thailand (Chiang Mai and Doi Inthanon); Louangphrabang, Laos and into adjacent Cambodia; tentatively (very unlikely—DRF) reported from Tsirang District, Bhutan; tentatively (see comment) from Son La and Phu Tho provinces, Vietnam.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bhutan, Cambodia, China, People's Republic of, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam

Comment

Related to Philautus longchuanensis, according to the original publication. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 260-261, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 722-725, provided an account (as Aquixalus menglaensis) and spot map for China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 432, provided a brief account for China (as Aquixalus menglaensis). Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 513, provided an account (as Liuixalus menglaensis), photographs, and a revised range map for China. Poyarkov, Nguyen, Duong, Gorin, and Yang, 2018, PeerJ, 6 (e5771): 17, provided a record from Cuc Phuong National Park, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam. Chan, Grismer, and Brown, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 127: 1014–1015, noting samples (from Chiang Mai and Doi Inthanon) of nominal Raorchestes parvulus from northern Thailand that were genetically close to Raorchestes menglaensis; they suggested they were either Raorchestes menglaensis or an unnamed lineage. Jiang, Ren, Wang, Guo, Wang, Liu, Jiang, and Li, 2020, Asian Herpetol. Res., 11: 263–281, discussed the taxon and redescribed the species and discussed the range and taxonomic relationships. Wangyal, Bower, Sherub, Tshewang, Wangdi, Rinchen, Puntsho, Tashi, Koirala, Bhandari, Phuntsho, Koirala, Ghalley, Chaida, Tenzin, Powrel, Tshewang, Raika, Jamtsho, Kinley, Gyeltshen, Tashi, Nidup, Wangdi, Phuentsho, Norbu, Wangdi, Wangchuk, Tobgay, Dorji, and Das, 2020, Herpetol. Rev., 51: 794, tentatively identified a photograph as of this species from Bhutan. Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 60, tentatively assigned records from Son La and Phu Tho provinces, Vietnam, on the basis of unpublished mtDNA data.

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