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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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Atelognathus nitoi (Barrio, 1973)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Batrachylidae > Genus: Atelognathus > Species: Atelognathus nitoi

Telmatobius nitoi Barrio, 1973, Physis, Buenos Aires, 32: 208. Holotype: CHINM 4621, by original designation; now in MACN. Type locality: "Río Challhuaco, cerro Blanco, Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi, Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina".

Atelognathus nitoi — Lynch, 1978, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 1–57.

Atelognathus salai Cei, 1984, Herpetologica, 40: 47. Holotype: KU 192116, by original designation. Type locality: "Andean slopes facing Mount ap Iwan, ca. 1100 m, 16 km south of Portezuelo, northern border of Lago Buenos Aires, Provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina, 46° 08′ S lat., 71° 42′ W long." Synonymy by Barrasso and Basso, 2019, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 57: 383.

Atelognathus ceii Basso, 1998, Herpetologica, 54: 45. Holotype: MLP A.1198, by original designation. Type locality: "1 km W La Tapera, Region XI, Chile; 15 km N Argentinian border, and 60 km W (by road) of the international pass Río Cisnes-Río Frias, 44° 38′ S, 71° 41′ W, 450 m elevation". Synonymy by Barrasso and Basso, 2019, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 57: 383.

Atelognathus jeinimenensis Meriggio, Veloso, Young, and Nuñez, 2004, Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat., Santiago, 53: 102. Holotype: MNHNC 3705, by original designation. Type locality: "en la Reserva Nacional Lago Jeinimeni (46° 49′ 59.6 S, 71° 59′ 57.3 W)", Chile. Synonymy with Atelognathus salai by Díaz-Páez, Vidal-Maldonado, Ortiz, Úbeda, and Basso, 2011, Zootaxa, 2880: 20; with Atelognathus nitoi by Barrasso and Basso, 2019, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 57: 383.

Common Names

Rio Negro Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 70).

Portezuelo Frog (Atelognathus salai [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 70).

Distribution

Southwestern Rio Nego Province, south through westernmost Chubut Province to northwestern Santa Cruz Province, Argentina; central-east to northeastern Aysén Province, Chile, 500 to 1500 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Argentina, Chile

Comment

See account (as Telmatobius nitoi) by Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 243–244. Díaz-Páez, Vidal-Maldonado, Ortiz, Úbeda, and Basso, 2011, Zootaxa, 2880: 20–30, discussed the systematics and range of nominal Atelognathus salai. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status of nominal Atelognathus salai in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 296. Scolaro, Martinazzo, and Basso, 2008, Herpetol. Rev., 39: 232–233, provided the southernmost record (as Atelognathus jeinimenensis), from Paso Roballos, Santa Cruz province, Argentina. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Atelognathus nitoi and Atelognathus jeinimenensis) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 618. 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 (as Atelognathus salai and Atelognathus ceii). See Raimilla, 2015, Bol. Chil. Herpetol., 2: 22–23, for a new locality and discussion of the range (as Atelognathus salai). See Charrier, 2019, Anf. Bosques Centro Sur y Patagonia de Chile: 138–141, for account (morphology, habitat, natural history) and polygon distribution map. Barrasso and Basso, 2019, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 57: 383–399, revised the species based on morphology and DNA evidence. Figueroa-Ponce and Moya, 2023, Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat., Santiago, 72: 13–19, reported on the distribution, detailing all historic and new localities, and commented on its conservation status.

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