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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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Arthroleptides Nieden, 1911 "1910"

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Petropedetidae > Genus: Arthroleptides

3 species

Arthroleptides Nieden, 1911 "1910", Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1910: 445. Type species: Arthroleptides martiensseni Nieden, 1911 "1910", by monotypy.

English Names

Rocky River Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 98).

Torrent Frogs (Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 316).

Distribution

Mountains of the eastern arc mountains of Tanzania; rocky montane streams of Mount Elgon, Kenya, and expected in adjacent Uganda.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Petropedetes by Barej, Rödel, Loader, Menegon, Gonwouo, Penner, Gvoždík, Günther, Bell, Nagel, and Schmitz, 2014, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 71: 261-273, where it had been placed by Scott, 2005, Cladistics, 21: 533. Channing, Moyer, and Howell, 2002, Alytes, 20: 13-27, discussed the three species of Arthroleptides, their habitats, range, and provided an identification key to them.Menegon, Doggart, and Owen, 2008, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 3: 107-127, reported an undescribed species from the Nguru Mountains of eastern Tanzania. Loader, Ceccarelli, Wilkinson, Menegon, Mariaux, de Sá, Howell, and Gower, 2013, Afr. J. Herpetol., 62:40-48, reported on the molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of East African species, and noted an unnamed species in the Nguru Mountains of Tanzania. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 264–272, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Drewes and Vindum, 1994, J. Afr. Zool., 108: 55-70, referred tadpoles from southwestern Uganda to this genus, but with additional examination these were reidentified as Amietia ruwenzorica (RD). Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 316–318, provided brief accounts, photographs, and range maps for the species.

Contained taxa (3 sp.):

Arthroleptides dutoiti Loveridge, 1935

Arthroleptides martiensseni Nieden, 1911 "1910"

Arthroleptides yakusini Channing, Moyer, and Howell, 2002

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