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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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Synapturanus mirandaribeiroi Nelson and Lescure, 1975

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Otophryninae > Genus: Synapturanus > Species: Synapturanus mirandaribeiroi

Synapturanus mirandaribeiroi Nelson and Lescure, 1975, Herpetologica, 31: 394. Holotype: MZUSP 49981, by original designation. Type locality: "Kanashen (a Waiwai Indian village and mission) on the upper Essequibo River, Rupununi District, Guyana". Placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology by Opinion 1513, Anonymous, 1988, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 45: 243.

English Names

Miranda's Disc Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 93).

Distribution

Known with certainty from the eastern Guiana Shield in Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, south to Parque Estadual Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil; presumably will be found in the northern parts of the Brazilian states of Amapa, Pará, and Roraima; apparently unnamed associate(s) in southern Venezuela and eastern Colombia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname

Comment

Nelson and Lescure, 1975, Herpetologica, 31: 394, discussed confusion with Myersiella microps. Zimmerman, 1983, Herpetologica, 39: 235–246, reported on advertisement call. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 276-277, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 58, commented on the Venezuelan distribution and Barrio-Amorós and Brewer-Carias, 1999, Herpetol. Rev., 30: 51, provided an additional Venezuelan locality. Menin, Rodrigues, and Lima, 2007, J. Herpetol., 17: 86–91, reported on advertisement call and tadpole morphology. See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 270–271. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 105, for comments on range and literature. Fouquet, Vidal, and Dewynter, 2019, Zoosystema, 41: 372, suggested that the population in the eastern Guyana Shield represents a distinct species. For identification of larvae in central Amazonia, Brazil, see Hero, 1990, Amazoniana, 11: 201–262. Fouquet, Leblanc, Fabre, Rodrigues, Menin, Courtois, Dewynter, Hölting, Ernst, Peloso, and Kok, 2021, Zool. Anz., 293: 46–73, rediagnosed the species, discussed osteology, external morphology, advertisement call, range, and natural history, named three new species from within the "old" Synapturanus mirandaribeiroi, and doubted the identification of specimens from Vaupés, Colombia, reported by Pyburn, 1975, Herpetologica, 31: 439–443. Care should be taken when using literature older than this revision. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 96–130, reported on distribution, literature, and conservation status for Amapá, Brazil. Schiesari, Rossa-Feres, Menin, and Hödl, 2022, Zootaxa, 5223: 101–102, detailed larval and metamorph morphology and natural history. Lescure, Dewynter, Frétey, Ineich, Ohler, Vidal, and De Massary, 2022, Bull. Soc. Herpetol. France, 181(5): 1–17, confirmed the species in French Guiana.

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