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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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Rhacophorus malabaricus Jerdon, 1870

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Rhacophorus > Species: Rhacophorus malabaricus

Rhacophorus malabaricus Jerdon, 1870, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1870: 84. Type(s): Not stated; presumably originally in ZSIC although not mentioned in recent type lists. Biju, Kamei, Mahony, Thomas, Garg, Sircar, and Suyesh, 2013, Zootaxa, 3636: 274, regarded BMNH 72.4.17.106, a specimen purchased from Jerdon from Malabar as the holotype. Type locality: "Malabar", India. Biju, 2001, Occas. Publ. Indian Soc. Conserv. Biol., 1: 8, noted the imprecision of this type locality.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) malabaricus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 159; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77; Mahony, Kamei, Brown, and Chan, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 253, by implication.

English Names

Malabar Flying Frog (Daniel and Sekar, 1989, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 86: 200; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 113; Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 171).

Malabar Gliding Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67; Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 171).

Flying Frog (Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 176).

Malabar Gliding Tree Frog (Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 15).

Distribution

Widely distributed species in the Western Ghats occurring on both sides of the Palghat Gap from Tamil Nadu through Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa, south to Palode, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala and north to Amboli, Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra, India.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: India

Endemic: India

Comment

In the Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) malabaricus group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77; see comment under Rhacophorus for dissenting opinion regarding the recognition of this group. See accounts by Inger, Shaffer, Koshy, and Bakde, 1985 "1984", J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 81: 556, and Daniel and Sekar, 1989, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 86: 200. See comment under Rhacophorus lateralis. Kuramoto and Joshy, 2001, Curr. Herpetol., Kyoto, 20: 85–95, reported on the advertisement call. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 176–177, provided a brief account. Dutta, 1997, Amph. India Sri Lanka: 104, provided bibliography and range. Daniels, 2005, Amph. Peninsular India: 171–174, provided an account. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted a number of larval descriptions in the literature. Biju, Kamei, Mahony, Thomas, Garg, Sircar, and Suyesh, 2013, Zootaxa, 3636: 257–289, provided an account, rediagnosed the species, redescribed the holotype, and discussed the range. A brief characterization, photograph, and dot map provided by Subramanian, Dinesh, and Radhakrishnan, 2013, Atlas of Endemic Amph. W. Ghats: 164. Mathew and Nameer, 2012, J. Threatened Taxa, 4: 3205–3214, reported the species from the Parambikulam Tiger Reserve, Palghat District, Kerala, South India, and provided some natural habitat information. Sivaprasad, 2013, Common Amph. Kerala: 216–217, provided a brief account, photograph, and dot map for Kerala, India. Sandeep, Joelin, Sanil, and Antony, 2022, Zoosystema, 44: 159–176, reported on the ontogeny from egg, through larval stages, to metamorphosis. Raj, 2023, J. Threatened Taxa, 15: 24223–24228, reported on larval morphology.

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