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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 tuberculatus (Anderson, 1871)

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

Polypedates tuberculatus Anderson, 1871, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 40: 26. Type(s): Not stated; ZSIC 10152–56 are syntypes according to Sclater, 1892, List Batr. Indian Mus.: 16. Type locality: "Seebsaugor [= Sibsagar], Assam", India.

Rhacophorus tuberculata — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 86.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) tuberculatus — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 156.

Rhacophorus schlegelii tuberculatus — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 197.

Rhacophorus verrucopus Huang, 1983, Acta Herpetol. Sinica, Chengdu, N.S.,, 2 (4): 63-65. Holotype: NWIPB 770689, by original designation. Type locality: "Beibeng, Medo [=Medog] Xian [= County], altitude 850 m." Xizang [=Tibet] Autonomous Region, China. Synonymy by Naveen, Liu, Chandramouli, Babu, Karunakaran, and Kumara, 2023, Herpetozoa, Wien, 36: 325.

Rhacophorus tuberculatus — Inger, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 548.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) verrucopus — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) marmoridorsum — Mahony, Kamei, Brown, and Chan, 2024, Vert. Zool., Senckenberg, 74: 253, by implication.

English Names

Warty Flying Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 65).

Tuberculate Tree Frog (Das and Dutta, 1998, Hamadryad, 23: 67; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Gururaja, and Bhatta, 2009, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, Occas. Pap., 302: 121; Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 118; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 65; Dinesh, Radhakrishnan, Deepak, and Kulkarni, 2023, Fauna India Checklist, vers. 5.0 : 15).

Round-tubercled Treefrog (Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 278).

Beibeng Flying Frog (Rhacophorus verrucopus [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114; Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 65).

Serrate-toed Treefrog (Rhacophorus verrucopus [no longer recognized]: Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 272).

Distribution

Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, and West Bengal (India) and southeastern Tibet (China); possibly into Nepal, Bhutan, and northern Myanmar.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: China, People's Republic of, India

Likely/Controversially Present: Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal

Comment

Not assigned to subgenus by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 278–279, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Chanda, 2002, Handb. Indian Amph.: 181, 222 provided a brief account. Das and Dutta, 2007, Hamadryad, 31: 154–181, noted no larval descriptions in the literature. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 802–806, provided an account for China, a spot map, and placed this species in their Rhacophorus maximus group. Sen, 2004, Rec. Zool. Surv. India, 102: 108, provided a state record for Meghalaya, India. Mathew and Sen, 2010, Pict. Guide Amph. NE India: 118–119, provided a brief characterization and photographs. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 473, provided a brief account for China. Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 65, provided an account for Xizang, China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 558, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Che, Jiang, Yan, and Zhang, 2020, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 385–393, provided a detailed account for Tibet, China. Naveen, Liu, Chandramouli, Babu, Karunakaran, and Kumara, 2023, Herpetozoa, Wien, 36: 325–333, redescribed Rhacophorus tuberculatus and placed Rhacophorus verrucopus into its synonymy.

As Rhacophorus verrucopus: The species was placed in the Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) appendiculatus group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77; see comment under Rhacophorus for dissenting opinion regarding the recognition of this group. Compared with Rhacophorus chaseni in the original diagnosis. Fei, 1999, Atlas Amph. China: 272-273, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 786-789, provided an account, illustration of the holotype, and a spot map. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Colored Atlas of Chinese Amph.: 475, provided a brief account. Li, Zhao, and Dong, 2010, Amph. Rept. Tibet: 65-66, provided an account for Xizang, China. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 558, provided an account, photographs, and a range map for China. Liu, Lwin, Quan, and Li, 2020, Herpetozoa, Wien, 33: 207–211, provided a record from Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary, Sagaing Division, Myanmar, close to the northern Manipur, India, border. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 45, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar.

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