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* = "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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Alsodes coppingeri (Günther, 1881)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Alsodidae > Genus: Alsodes > Species: Alsodes coppingeri

Cacotus coppingeri Günther, 1881, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1881: 19. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.19.97 (formerly 80.7.28.14), according to Formas, Nuñez, and Cuevas, 2008, Rev. Chilena Hist. Nat., 81: 7, who redescribed the holotype. Type locality: "Port Riofrio (west coast of Patagonia)", southern coastal Chile.

Borborocoetes coppingeri — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 257.

Eupsophus coppingeri — Capurro-S., 1958, Invest. Zool. Chilen., 4: 294; Cei, 1962, Invest. Zool. Chilen., 8: 26.

Alsodes coppingeri — Formas, Nuñez, and Cuevas, 2008, Rev. Chilena Hist. Nat., 81: 7.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Beyond the type locality known from a few localities in southeastern Chile (Puerto Yungay, Canal Michel, Caleta Tortel, and Caleta Lever), and few nearby localities near to Lago del Desierto in Santa Cruz Department Argentina.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Argentina, Chile

Comment

Cei, 1962, Batr. Chile: 77–78 (as Eupsophus coppingeri) provided an account (but see Formas, Nuñez, and Cuevas, 2008, Rev. Chilena Hist. Nat., 81: 3–20). See comments under Alsodes australis for discussion of confusion with this species. Removed from the synonymy of Alsodes monticola by Formas, Nuñez, and Cuevas, 2008, Rev. Chilena Hist. Nat., 81: 3–20, where it had been placed by Lynch, 1968, Herpetologica, 24: 255–257; they also noted the type locality and suggested that specimens other than the holotype were referable to other species. See comments under Alsodes australis for relevant taxonomic discussion. Blotto, Nuñez, Basso, Úbeda, Wheeler, and Faivovich, 2013, Cladistics, 29: Appendix S3, pp. 2–3, discussed the range and taxonomic problems with Alsodes australis. See Lobos, Vidal-Maldonado, Correa-Quezada, Labra-Lillo, Díaz-Páez, Charrier, Rabanal, Díaz-Vidal, and Tala, 2013, Anf. Chile Conserv. 1–104, for photograph, comments on conservation status, and range in Chile. See Charrier, 2019, Anf. Bosques Centro Sur y Patagonia de Chile: 90–93, for account (morphology, habitat, natural history) and polygon distribution map. Barrasso, Úbeda, Cotichelli, and Basso, 2022, Neotropical Biodiversity, 8: 21–30, reported and confirmed genetically the species from near Lago del Desierto, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina and provided a dot range map for the species.

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