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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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Allophryne ruthveni Gaige, 1926

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Allophrynidae > Genus: Allophryne > Species: Allophryne ruthveni

Allophryne ruthveni Gaige, 1926, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 176: 2. Holotype: UMMZ 63419, by original designation. Type locality: "Tukeit Hill, below Kaiteur Falls, British Guiana [= Guyana]".

Sphoenohyla seabrai Bokermann, 1958, Neotropica, 4: 43. Holotype: WCAB 3092, by original designation; now in MZUSP. Type locality: "Serra do Navio, Territorio Federal do Amapá, Brasil". Synonymy by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 91.

Dryomelictes seabrai — Goin, 1961, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 36: 9.

Sphaenorhynchus scabrai — Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 112. Incorrect subsequent spelling of species name.

Common Names

Tukeit Hill Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 36; IUCN, 2021).

Distribution

South of the Orinoco River in Venezuela (Amazonas and Bolívar, 100 to 130 m elevation), through Guyana and Suriname to central Brazil (Rondônia, Amapá, Pará, Amazonas, northern Mato Grosso, and Roraima); expected in adjacent eastern Colombia.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Likely/Controversially Present: Colombia

Comment

See Hoogmoed, 1969, Zool. Meded., Leiden, 44: 75–81, Caldwell and Hoogmoed, 1998, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 666: 1–3 (who provided a detailed account, literature review, and reported on advertisement call), and Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 44 (who also reported on advertisement call). De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 57, considered this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Duellman, 1997, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 2: 9, commented on a population in Venezuela. Barrio-Amorós, 1999 "1998", Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 18: 4, commented on the Venezuelan range. Langone and Segalla, 1997, Cuad. Herpetol., 11: 87–88, reported the species in the Estado de Rondônia, Brazil. Bernarde, Machado, Macedo-Bernarde, Monção, and Silva, 2007, Check List, 2(3): 5–6, provided an additional record for Rondônia, Brazil. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park: 110–113, provided a brief, but informative, account. See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 16–19. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 370, for brief account of population in Guyana. See brief taxonomic account for Venezuela by Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 6. Señaris and Rojas-Runjaic, 2018, Vol. 6, Fauna Silvestre Escudo Guayanés: 101–150, discussed habitat and range in the Venezuelan Guayana. Señaris and Rojas-Runjaic, 2020, in Rull and Carnaval (eds.), Neotrop. Divers. Patterns Process.: 571–632, commented on range and conservation status in the Venezuelan Guayana. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 96–130, reported on distributon, literature, and conservation status for Amapá, Brazil. Fonseca, Almeida, Nascimento, Moraes, Machado, Bernarde, Costa-Campos, and Carvalho, 2022, Zootaxa, 5138: 196–200, compared the advertisement call with that of Allophryne resplendens and Allophryne relicta. Dias, Delia, Taboada, Altig, and Rada, 2024, Sci. Nature, 111(21): 1–22, reported on larval morphology and reproductive biology.

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