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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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Zhangixalus viridis (Hallowell, 1861)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Rhacophoridae > Subfamily: Rhacophorinae > Genus: Zhangixalus > Species: Zhangixalus viridis

Polypedates viridis Hallowell, 1861 "1860", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 12: 500. Holotype: Not stated; USNM 25397 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 71. Type locality: "Loo-Choo" (= Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands), Japan.

Rhacophorus viridis — Boulenger, 1887, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887: 149.

Polypedates viridis — Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 147.

Polypedates schlegelii viridis — Van Denburgh, 1912, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 3: 202.

Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) viridis — Ahl, 1931, Das Tierreich, 55: 151. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77.

Rhacophorus schlegelii viridis — Wolf, 1936, Bull. Raffles Mus., 12: 192; Inger, 1947, Fieldiana, Zool., 32: 344-345.

Rhacophorus viridis — Okada, 1966, Fauna Japon., Anura: 166.

Rhacophorus viridis viridis — Kuramoto, 1977, Caryologia, 30: 333; Nishioka, Sumida, Ohta, and Suzuki, 1987, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 9: 54.

Zhangixalus viridis — Jiang, Jiang, Ren, Wu, and Li, 2019, Asian Herpetol. Res., 10: 7.

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

English Names

Okinawa Green Tree Frog (Rhacophorus viridis viridis: Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 153; Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 123).

Green Flying Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114).

Distribution

Okinawajima, Iheyajima and Kumejima Islands of the Okinawa Group, central Ryukyus, Japan.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Japan

Endemic: Japan

Comment

In the Rhacophorus (Rhacophorus) schlegelii group of Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 77; see comment under Rhacophorus for dissenting opinion regarding the recognition of this group. See account by Okada, 1966, Fauna Japon., Anura: 166-171. See Kuramoto, 1979, Japan. J. Herpetol., 8: 11-13, for discussion of two subspecies (now considered different species, Zhangixalus amamiensis and Zhangixalus viridis). Nishioka, Sumida, Ohta, and Suzuki, 1987, Sci. Rep. Lab. Amph. Biol. Hiroshima Univ., 9: 53-96, rejected the status of this species a subspecies of Rhacophorus schlegeli and provided electrophoretic evidence the distinctiveness of the two subspecies (now Zhangixalus amamiensis and Zhangixalus viridis). Maeda and Matsui, 1990, Frogs Toads Japan, Ed. 2: 146-153, provided accounts. Goris and Maeda, 2004, Guide Amph. Rept. Japan: 123-127, provided accounts, maps, and photographs.

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