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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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Ptychadena tellinii (Peracca, 1904)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ptychadenidae > Genus: Ptychadena > Species: Ptychadena tellinii

Phrynobatrachus tellinii Peracca, 1904, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, 19 (467): 4. Syntypes: 2 specimens, including MSNT 504 (1 specimen), according to Gavetti and Andreone, 1993, Cat. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat., Torino, 10: 85. Syntypes are MSNG 37461 and MZUT An 504 according to Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 343. Type locality: "Eritrea . . . . percorso Massaua-Cheren, passando per 'Asmara. . . . senza località determinata"; (= Eritrea . . . . between Massaua and Cheren, . . . . without a definite locality).

Rana schubotzi Sternfeld, 1917, in Mecklenburg (ed.), Ergebnisse der Zweit. Deutschen Zentral-Afr.-Exped. 1910–1911, Zool.: 493. Holotype: SMF 6242 (formerly 1051. 1a) according to Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 46. Type locality: "Fort Crampel", Central African Republic. Synonymy by Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 343.

Rana cornii Scortecci, 1929, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 68: 183. Syntypes: MSNM 593–594 (4 specimens), lost in World War II according to Perret, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species WorldJ: 487, in error, apparently; BMNH 1930.2.1.1 (exchanged from MSNM), according to Largen, 1997, Tropical Zool., 10: 72. MSNM Am 141 (2 specimens) are surviving syntypes according to Blackburn and Scali, 2014, Herpetol. Monogr., 28: 32, who discussed the material. Type localities: "Adamò" and "Pozzi di Guarabà" (surviving syntypes), Eritrea. Synonymy by Largen, 1997, Tropical Zool., 10: 72.

Rana huguettae Inger, 1968, Explor. Parc Natl. Garamba, Miss. H. de Saeger, 52: 59. Holotype: RFI 3317; not located in MRAC or IRSNB by Lang, 1990, Doc. Trav., Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg., 59: 12; presumably in FMNH. Type locality: "Ndelele, Parc National de la Garamba, Congo [=Dem. Rep. Congo], at 900 m". Synonymy by Perret, 1981, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 104: 53-57.

Ptychadena huguettae — Amiet, 1974, Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 18: 114.

Ptychadena schubotzi — Perret, 1981, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 104: 53-54; Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 56; by implication.

Rana (Ptychadena) schubotzi — Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 233, by implication.

Rana (Euphlyctis) cornii — Dubois, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 240.

Euphlyctis cornii — Poynton and Broadley, 1985, Ann. Natal Mus., 27: 124, by implication; Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 315.

Occidozyga (Euphlyctis) cornii — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 59.

Ptychadena (Ptychadena) schubotzi — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 316.

Ptychadena tellini — Largen, 2001, Tropical Zool., 14: 343.

English Names

Central Grassland Frog (Ptychadena schubotzi: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 106).

Peracca's River Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 104).

Tellini's Grass Frog (Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 170; Channing and Rödel, 2019, Field Guide Frogs & Other Amph. Afr.: 330).

Eritrea Five-fingered Frog (Euphlyctis cornii [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 98).

Distribution

Western Eritrea, western Ethiopia and northeastern Dem. Rep. Congo west in savanna to southern Mali, Burkina Faso, and Sierra Leone; expected in southern Chad, Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, South Sudan, and southeastern Sudan.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo

Likely/Controversially Present: Chad, Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, South Sudan, Sudan

Comment

Discussed by Perret, 1981, Bull. Soc. Neuchatel. Sci. Nat., 104: 53–57. See Schiøtz, 1964, Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., 127: 22, 45 (as Ptychadena sp. I). See Amiet, 1974, Ann. Fac. Sci. Cameroun, 18: 114 (as Ptychadena huguettae). See discussion by Largen, 1997, Tropical Zool., 10: 72. Rödel, 2000, Herpetofauna W. Afr., 1: 110–114, provided an account. Padial and De la Riva, 2004, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 18: 96, suggested that this species will be found in southern Mauritania, although Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta, and Márquez, 2017, ZooKeys, 673: 125–133, did not report it there. Nago, Grell, Sinsin, and Rödel, 2006, Salamandra, 42: 93–108, provided a record for Benin. Emms, Jambang, Bah, Mankali, Rödel, and Barnett, 2005, Herpetol. Bull., London, 94: 6–16, suggested that the species is expected to occur in Gambia although not so far recorded there. See account, photograph, and map for Ethiopia by Largen and Spawls, 2010, Amph. Rept. Ethiopia Eritrea: 170–171. Channing, Rödel, and Channing, 2012, Tadpoles of Africa: 314–315, provided information on comparative larval morphology. Kassie Teme, 2016, J. Zool. Stud., 3(4): 1–6, reported a population from Warki (Kessa), northwestern Ethiopia. Ayoro, Segniagbeto, Hema, Penner, Oueda, Dubois, Rödel, Kabré, and Ohler, 2020, Zoosystema, 42: 547–582, discussed records, identification, and habitat in Burkina Faso.

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