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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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Limnomedusa macroglossa (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Alsodidae > Genus: Limnomedusa > Species: Limnomedusa macroglossa

Cystignathus macroglossus Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 405. Holotype: MNHNP 166, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 31. Type locality: "Montévideo", Uruguay.

Rana (Limnomedusa) macroglossus — Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 31.

Limnomedusa macroglossa — Cope, 1866, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 94.

Litopleura maritimum Jiménez de la Espada, 1875, Vert. Viaje Pacif. Verif. 1862–1865: 82. Holotype: Presumably deposited in MNCN. Type locality: "república del Uruguay . . . cerca Montevideo, en la llamada Playa Ramirez", Uruguay. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 250.

Leptodactylus nova-teutoniae Ahl, 1936, Veröff. Deutsch. Kolon. Uebersee Mus., Bremen, 1: 391. Types: UMB, status unknown; SMF 22470 (presumably exchanged from UMB) designated lectotype by Mertens, 1937, Zool. Anz., 118: 145. Type locality: "Nova Teutonia, [Santa Catarina,] Brasilien". Synonymy by Mertens, 1937, Zool. Anz., 118: 145.

Limnomedusa misionis Schmidt, 1944, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 29: 153-160. Holotype: FMNH 9407, by original designation. Type locality: "Rio Paranay, Misiones Territory, Argentina". Synonymy by Barrio, 1971, Physis, Buenos Aires, 30: 667.

English Names

Rapids Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 82).

Distribution

Southern Brazil (Paraná to Rio Grande do Sul), Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina; eastern Paraguay.

Comment

See Gudynas and Gehrau, 1981, Iheringia, Zool., 60: 81-99, and Klappenbach and Langone, 1992, An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, Ser. 2, 8: 201-202, for distribution and comments. See Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 318-320, for account including external morphology of larvae. Weiler, Núñez, Airaldi, Lavilla, Peris, and Baldo, 2013, Anf. Paraguay: 30, provided a brief account, image, and dot map for Paraguay. Achaval and Olmos, 2003, Anf. Rept. Uruguay, ed. 2: 34, provided a brief account and photograph for the Uruguay population. Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 210, transferred Limnomedusa from Leptodactylidae to Cycloramphidae. Winck, Maragno, and Cechin, 2006, Check List, 2: 53–54, provided a record from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Alcalde and Blotto, 2006, Amphibia-Reptilia, 27: 241–253, reported on larval buccopharyngeal and cranial anatomy. Blotto and Alcalde, 2006, Amphibia-Reptilia, 27: 241–253, reported on chondrocranial and buccopharyngeal anatomy of the larvae. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 16, provided the first record from Paraguay. Conte, Garey, Lingnau, Silva, Armstrong, and Hartmann, 2009, Check List, 5: 202-209, discussed the range in Paraná, Brazil. Guerra Batista, Lingnau, Barreto, Kwet, and Bastos, 2018, Salamandra, 54: 97–100, reported on vocalization. de Olivera-López, Camargo, and Maneyro, 2021, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 16: 11–25, discussed morphometics of sexual and geographic variation in Uruguay. Gonçalves, Hendges, Madalozzo, and Santos, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 17: 59–70, reported on larval morphology.

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