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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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Glyphoglossus molossus Günther, 1869

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Microhylinae > Genus: Glyphoglossus > Species: Glyphoglossus molossus

Glyphoglossus molossus Günther, 1869 "1868", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868: 483. Holotype: BMNH, by original designation; given as BMNH 1868.4.3.102 by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 73, now reregistered as 1947.2.10.75 according to museum records. Type locality: "Pegu" (= Bago), Myanmar; expanded to "Eastern Pegu .... within the tidal portion of the Irrawaddy Delta . . . [in] a hole that happened to be near the spot" by Mason, 1884, Burma, 1: 292.

Glyphoglossus (Glyphoglossus) molossus — Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 39.

English Names

Balloon Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 89).

Blunt-headed Burrowing Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 155).

Truncate-snouted Burrowing Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 96).

Broad-lipped Frog (Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 43).

Blunt-headed Balloon Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 39).

Blunt-chinned Burrowing Frog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 29).

Distribution

North-central Myanmar (Ayeyarwady, Bago, Magway, Mandalay, Sagaing) through most of non-peninsular Thailand through Laos to southern Vietnam (southern Gia Lai Province to Mekong River) and Mondulkiri and Siem Reap, Cambodia, 200–600 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam

Comment

See Bourret, 1942, Batr. Indochine: 493–495, and Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 576–578, for accounts. Orlov, Murphy, Ananjeva, Ryabov, and Ho, 2002, Russ. J. Herpetol., 9: 98, provided a statement of range for Vietnam. Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 155, provided a brief characterization and photograph. Stuart, 1999, in Duckworth et al. (eds.), Wildlife in Lao PDR: 49, reported the species in Laos. Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 96–97, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph. Teynié, David, Ohler, and Luanglath, 2004, Hamadryad, 29: 35, commented on its distribution in Laos. Nguyen, Ho, and Nguyen, 2005, Checklist Amph. Rept. Vietnam: 43, provided specific localities for Vietnam. Neang and Holden, 2008, Field Guide Amph. Cambodia: 58, provided a photograph, brief account of identification, ecology, and range in Cambodia. Pauwels, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 237–238, provided a record for Phetchaburi Province, Thailand, and discussed the range. Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Amph. E. Region Thailand: 36–37, provided a brief account for eastern Thailand, a photograph and (p. 129), detailed the distribution in Thailand. Aran, Chuaynkern, Duangjai, and Chuaynkern, 2012, J. Wildlife Thailand, 19: 41–73, described larval morphology including the oral apparatus. Altig and Rowley, 2014, Zootaxa, 3811: 381–386, reported on larval morphology in Cambodia (Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary, 35 km NNW of Sen Monorom, Mondulkiri, eastern Cambodia) and Vietnam. See account, photograph, and map for Vietnam in Vassilieva, Galoyan, Poyarkov, and Geissler, 2016, Photograph. Field Guide Amph. Rept. Lowland S. Vietnam: 63–65. Manthey and Manthey, 2017, Sauria, Berlin, 39: 3–18, provided photographs of adults and larvae from near Pak Chong, Thailand. Do, Ngo, and Nguyen, 2017, Hue Univ. J. Sci: Nat. Sci., 126: 86, provided a record from Phu Yen Province, southern Vietnam, and commented on coloration, range, and ecology. See comments by Geissler, Hartmann, Ihlow, Neang, Seng, Wagner, and Böhme, 2019, Cambodian J. Nat. Hist., 2019: 40–63, on specimens collected in Phnom Kulen National Park, northern Cambodia. Niyomwan, Srisom, and Pawangkhanant, 2019, Field Guide Amph. Thailand: 206–207, provided a brief account (photographs, habitat, and range) for Thailand (in Thai). Makchai, Chuaynkern, Safoowong, Chuachat, and Cota, 2020, Amph. N. Thailand: 112–113, provided a brief account, photographs, and a range map for Thailand. Nguyen, Brakels, Maury, Sudavanh, Pawangkhanant, Idiiatullina, Lorphengsy, Inkhavilay, Suwannapoom, and Poyarkov, 2020, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 14 (2: e248): 218–249, discussed the range and provided a record from Salavanakhet Province, Laos. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 29, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar.

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