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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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Craugastor alfredi (Boulenger, 1898)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Craugastoridae > Genus: Craugastor > Species: Craugastor alfredi

Hylodes alfredi Boulenger, 1898, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1898: 480–481. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.15.54 (formerly 1898.2.19.1) and 1947.2.14.55 (formerly 1898.4.7.1) according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 99; MNHNP 1899.19 recorded as holotype in error by Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 27. Flores-Villela, Ríos-Muñoz, Magaña-Cota, and Quezadas-Tapia, 2016, Zootaxa, 4092: 48, noted specimens in MDUG that may have been part of the original collection but which are not part of Boulenger's syntypic series. Type locality: "Atoyac, State of Veracruz", Mexico.

Eleutherodactylus alfredi — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 94.

Eleutherodactylus conspicuus Taylor and Smith, 1945, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 95: 567. Holotype: USNM 116509, by original designation. Type locality: "Piedras Negras, Guatemala, near the Mexico-Guatemala border". Synonymy by Shreve, 1957, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 116: 246; Duellman, 1960, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 13: 54.

Eleutherodactylus alfredi conspicuus — Shreve, 1957, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 116: 246.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) alfredi — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317, by implication.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) conspicuus — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. No discussion.

Craugastor alfredi — Crawford and Smith, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 35: 551, by implication; 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: 360.

Craugastor (Hylactophryne) alfredi — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45.

Common Names

Alfred's Rain Frog (Craugastor alfredi: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 18; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).

Alfred's Rainfrog (Craugastor alfredi: Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 9).

Alfredo's Rainfrog (Craugastor alfredi: Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 58; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 63).

Alfred's Climbing Frog (Craugastor alfredi: Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 51).

Northern Alfred's Rain Frog (Craugastor alfredi alfredi: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 18).

Northern Alfred's Rainfrog (Craugastor alfredi alfredi: Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 9).

Southern Alfred's Rain Frog (Craugastor alfredi conspicuus: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 18).

Southern Alfred's Rainfrog (Craugastor alfredi conspicuus: Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 9).

Distribution

Lowland wet forest from central-eastern Veracruz (Mexico) to western El Petén, Guatemala, 0–600 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Guatemala, Mexico

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) alfredi group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. Shreve, 1957, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 116: 246–247, considered Eleutherodactylus conspicuus a subspecies of Craugastor alfredi, whereas Duellman, 1960, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 13: 53–54, saw little justification for recognizing Craugastor alfredi conspicuus as distinct at all. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) alfredi group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 219. See accounts by Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 51–52; and Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 63–64. In the Craugastor (Hylactophryne) bocourti species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45. Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123, rejected the recognition of species groups within Hylactophryne. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 298. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 140–191, provided a key to the genera and species of Brachycephaloidea (= Craugastoridae, Eleutherodactylidae) in Central America and provided maps and photographs of the species, including this one.

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