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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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Clinotarsus penelope Grosjean, Bordoloi, Chuaynkern, Chakravarty, and Ohler, 2015

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Clinotarsus > Species: Clinotarsus penelope

Clinotarsus penelope Grosjean, Bordoloi, Chuaynkern, Chakravarty, and Ohler, 2015, Zootaxa, 4058: 484. Holotype: Tadpole MNHNP 2000.4630 in stage 36, by original designation. Type locality: "Namtok Raman Forest Park (8°27’ N, 98°32’ E, WGS 84, about 30 m asl), Phang Nga Province, Thailand".

English Names

Hill Frog (Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 140).

Palebrown Stream Frog (Nutphund, 2001, Amph. Thailand: 121).

Penelope's Tadpole Frog (Zug and Mulcahy, 2020 "2019", Amph. Rept. S. Tanintharyi: 54.

Phang Nga Hill Frog (Poyarkov, Nguyen, Popov, Geissler, Pawangkhanant, Neang, Suwannapoom, and Orlov, 2021, Russ. J. Herpetol., 28 (3A): 46).

Malay Pointed-snout Frog (Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 36).

Distribution

Peninsular Thailand from central Kachana Buri province south to Trang Province, and adjacent peninsular Myanmar (Mon and Tanintharyi).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Myanmar, Thailand

Comment

With the naming of Clinotarsus penelope, based on larval characters, the literature of Clinotarsus alticola from Thailand must be presumed to apply to the newer species. See account by Taylor, 1962, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 43: 453-456 (as Rana alticola). Chan-ard, 2003, Photograph. Guide Amph. Thailand: 140-141, provided a very brief account, map for Thailand, and photograph, as Rana cf. alticola. See identification table by Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 84-86, to compare this species to other ranids of the Sunda Shelf region, although this species was conflated with Clinotarsus alticola. In the original publication, the authors provided molecular evidence that possibly one more species of Clinotarsus will be named from the Tak-Kanchanaburi Province boundary area of Thailand. Chan-ard, Cota, and Makchai, 2011, Amph. E. Region Thailand: 142, detailed the range (as Clinotarsus alticola) in Thailand. Mulcahy, Lee, Miller, Chand, Thura, and Zug, 2018, ZooKeys, 757: 95, provided a record (as Clinotarsus alticola) from Taninthary Division, southern Myanmar. Zug, Mulcahy, Vindum, and Wilkinson, 2018, Alytes, 36: 270, provided a record for South Tanintharyi, peninsular Myanmar. Zug and Mulcahy, 2020 "2019", Amph. Rept. S. Tanintharyi: 54, provided a brief account for South Tanintharyi, peninsular Myanmar. Zug, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 653: 36, briefly discussed identification, habitat, and range in Myanmar.

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