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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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Sclerophrys poweri (Hewitt, 1935)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Sclerophrys > Species: Sclerophrys poweri

Bufo regularis poweri Hewitt, 1935, Rec. Albany Mus., 4: 293. Syntypes: AMG (5 specimens), by original designation; now lost according to Conradie, Branch, and Watson, 2015, Zootaxa, 3936: 66. Type locality: "Kimberley", Northern Cape Province, Rep. South Africa.

Bufo poweri — Pienaar, 1963, Koedoe, 6: 78.

Amietophrynus poweri — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 363.

Sclerophrys poweri — Ohler and Dubois, 2016, PeerJ, 4(e1553): 9.

English Names

Common Lowveld Toad (Pienaar, 1963, Koedoe, 6: 78).

Kimberley Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 43).

Power's Toad (Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 90).

Western Olive Toad (Du Preez, Cunningham, and Turner, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 76; Du Preez and Carruthers, 2009, Compl. Guide Frogs S. Afr.: 152).

Distribution

Northern half of Namibia and adjacent southern Angola; extreme southern Zambia, and northern, eastern, and southeastern Botswana southward to central Rep. South Africa (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia

Comment

In the Bufo regularis group of Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 159. Without comment, considered a synonym of Bufo garmani by Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 80, and Tandy and Keith, 1972, in Blair (ed.), Evol. Genus Bufo: 159, and Lambiris, 1988, Lammergeyer, 39: 51–52. Poynton and Broadley, 1988, Ann. Natal Mus., 29: 457, noted that Bufo poweri and Bufo pseudogarmani might be conspecific (while retaining Bufo pseudogarmani in the synonymy of Bufo garmani). Maintains small, but consistent call differences from Bufo garmani according to Channing, 1991, S. Afr. J. Zool., 26: 81–84. Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 91, Du Preez, Cunningham, and Turner, 2004, in Minter et al. (eds.), Atlas Frogs S. Afr. Lesotho and Swaziland: 76–77, and Pickersgill, 2007, Frog Search: 521–525, provided accounts, and considered all populations of nominal Bufo garmani from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to be Bufo poweri. Broadley, 2007, Afr. J. Herpetol., 56: 175–177, regarded the situation as more complex, with the population in the Kalahari sands in Hwange National Park and at Dete to be Amietophrynus poweri, but populations to the east to not be Amietophrynus poweri (all as Bufo). Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 135, reported on comparative tadpole morphology. Marques, Ceríaco, Blackburn, and Bauer, 2018, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 65 (Suppl. II): 74–75, provided a map for Angola and provided a brief account. Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 62–63, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Conradie, Keates, Verburgt, Baptista, and Harvey, 2023, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 17: 29–30, provided an account and dot map of the species in Angola.

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