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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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Alsodes montanus (Lataste, 1902)

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

Telmatobius montanus Lataste in Philippi, 1902, Supl. Batr. Chil. Descr. Hist. Fis. Polit. Chile: 47. Syntypes: MNHNC (five specimens) according to the original publication, of which one was exchange to FMNH as FMNH 9979 (according to Schmidt, 1928, Rev. Chilena Hist. Nat., 32: 102); FMNH 9979 designated lectotype by Cei and Roig, 1965, Copeia, 1965: 421. Type locality: "Habitat in lacu quodam Andium altiorum provinciae Santiago", Chile; corrected to vicinity of Potrero Grande, Province of Aconcagua, Chile, by Müller, 1938, Zool. Anz., 121: 314.

Alsodes montanus — Gallardo, 1970, Neotropica, 16: 83; Formas, 1978, Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ., 13: 1; Veloso, Sallaberry-Ayerza, Navarro, Iturra-Constant, Valencia, Penna, and Diaz, 1982, in Veloso and Bustos (eds.), El Ambiente Nat. y Los Pobl. Humanas de los Andes: 204; Wiens, 1993, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 162: 41, 42.

Eupsophus montanus — Lynch, 1972, Bull. S. California Acad. Sci., 71: 7.

Telmalsodes montanus — Diaz, 1989, Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ., 24: 25–33.

Common Names

Mountain Spiny-chest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 70).

Distribution

Elevations above 2000 m in the Andean region between 30° 30′ and 36° 00′ S, in central Chile near the Argentina frontier.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Argentina, Chile

Comment

Adult and larval morphology discussed by Busse, 1980, Amphibia-Reptilia, 1: 113–125 (as Telmatobius montanus). Transferred to Alsodes from Telmatobius by Veloso, Sallaberry-Ayerza, Navarro, Iturra-Constant, Valencia, Penna, and Diaz, 1982, in Veloso and Bustos (eds.), El Ambiente Nat. y Los Pobl. Humanas de los Andes: 204. This transferral supported by larval data supplied by Diaz and Valencia, 1985, Copeia, 1985: 175, on the basis of larval morphology. Cei, 1962, Batr. Chile: 61–62, discussed the species as Telmatobius montanus. Veloso, Sallaberry-Ayerza, Navarro, Iturra-Constant, Valencia, Penna, and Diaz, 1982, in Veloso and Bustos (eds.), El Ambiente Nat. y Los Pobl. Humanas de los Andes: 181–192, provided an account (as Telmatobius montanus). Correa-Quezada, Sallaberry-Ayerza, Iturra-Constant, Collado, and Méndez-Torres, 2008, Check List, 4: 467-471, discussed the range and provided specific localities in Chile. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 294. 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. Ramírez-Álvarez, 2015, Bol. Chil. Herpetol., 2: 17–19, provided a record from the Provincia de Cachapoal, Región de O`Higgins, and discussed the range. Mora, Horta–Pizarro, Soffia, Charrier, Palma, and Correa-Quezada, 2015, Bol. Chil. Herpetol., 2: 8–11, provided information on range and habitat. See Charrier, 2019, Anf. Bosques Centro Sur y Patagonia de Chile: 106–109, for account (morphology, habitat, natural history) and polygon distribution map.

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