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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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Agalychnis Cope, 1864

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Phyllomedusinae > Genus: Agalychnis

14 species

Agalychnis Cope, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 16: 181. Type species: Hyla callidryas Cope, 1862, by original designation. Designation of Agalychnis moreletii as the type species of Agalychnis by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 801, and the comments by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 87, are in error; see Cope, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 16: 181, and Taylor, 1955, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 37: 525.

Pachymedusa Duellman, 1968, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 18: 5. Type species: Phyllomedusa dacnicolor Cope, 1864, by original designation. Synonymy by Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 258.

English Names

Leaf Frogs (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 16; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 7).

Mexican Giant Tree Frogs (Pachymedusa [no longer recognized]: Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 66).

Mexican Leaf Frogs (Pachymedusa [no longer recognized]: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 25; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 19).

Rough Leaf Frogs (Hylomantis [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 58).

Middle American Multicolored Treefrogs (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 13).

Distribution

Pacific lowlands of Mexico from southern Sonora south, including the Balsas Depression to the state of Mexico, to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; tropical southern Mexico, Central America, Pacific lowlands of Colombia and northwestern Ecuador; Upper Amazon Basin and lower Andean slopes in Colombia, Venezuela, and northeastern Peru, likely into eastern Ecuador.

Comment

For discussion see Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 81-128. Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 227-261, recently revised the genus within a larger treatment of the subfamily. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, confirmed the results of Faivovich et al., 2010, but retained a paraphyletic Hylomantis and did not accept the synonymy of Pachymedusa and Hylomantis. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 198–201, provided a key to the species of Central America and provided a map and photograph of the species.

Contained taxa (14 sp.):

Agalychnis annae (Duellman, 1963)

Agalychnis buckleyi (Boulenger, 1882)

Agalychnis callidryas (Cope, 1862)

Agalychnis dacnicolor (Cope, 1864)

Agalychnis danieli (Ruiz-Carranza, Hernández-Camacho, and Rueda-Almonacid, 1988)

Agalychnis hulli (Duellman and Mendelson, 1995)

Agalychnis lemur (Boulenger, 1882)

Agalychnis medinae (Funkhouser, 1962)

Agalychnis moreletii (Duméril, 1853)

Agalychnis psilopygion (Cannatella, 1980)

Agalychnis saltator Taylor, 1955

Agalychnis spurrelli Boulenger, 1913

Agalychnis taylori Funkhouser, 1957

Agalychnis terranova Rivera-Correa, Duarte-Cubides, Rueda-Almonacid, and Daza-R., 2013

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