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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 decoratus (Taylor, 1942)

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

Eleutherodactylus decoratus Taylor, 1942, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 28: 299. Holotype: EHT-HMS 28720, by original designation; now FMNH 100115 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 48. Type locality: "near Banderia [= Banderilla], 6 miles west of Jalapa, Veracruz", Mexico.

Eleutherodactylus hidalgoensis Taylor, 1942, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 28: 299. Holotype: EHT-HMS 28270, by original designation; now FMNH 100094, according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 48. Type locality: "about 4 miles north of Tianguistengo, Hidalgo", Mexico. Synonymy by Lynch, 1967, Trans. Illinois State Acad. Sci., 60: 299–304.

Eleutherodactylus decoratus decoratus — Lynch, 1967, Trans. Illinois State Acad. Sci., 60: 299–304.

Eleutherodactylus decoratus purpurus Lynch, 1967, Trans. Illinois State Acad. Sci., 60: 299–304. Holotype: UMMZ 102496, by original designation; this corrected by UMMZ 102946 by Kluge, 1983, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 166: 32. Type locality: "a cave near Rancho del Cielo, 5 km. NW Gomez Farias, Tamaulipas, México, 3500 feet elev."

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) decoratus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317, by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) purpurus — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 231. Unintended combination.

Craugastor decoratus — 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) decoratus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 45.

Common Names

Adorned Robber Frog (Eleutherodactylus decoratus: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 10).

Adorned Robber Frog (Eleutherodactylus decoratus decoratus: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 10).

Purple Adorned Robber Frog (Eleutherodactylus decoratus purpurus: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 10).

Distribution

Cloud forests of southern Tamaulipas, eastern San Luis Potosi, adjacent northern Queretaro, northern Hidalgo, and adjacent central Veracruz and northern Puebla, Mexico.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus alfredi group, with two geographic races according to Lynch, 1967, Trans. Illinois State Acad. Sci., 60: 299–304. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) alfredi group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. 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 species groups within the subgenus Hylactophryne. 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: 302. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2013, Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí: 43–44, provided an account for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2016, Amph. Rept. Hidalgo: 361–362, provided a brief account and map for Hidalgo, Mexico. Tepos-Ramírez, Garduño-Fonseca, Peralta-Robles, García-Rubio, and Cervantes Jiménez, 2023, Check List, 19: 269–292, discussed the distribution and conservation status of the species in Queretaro, Mexico. Streicher, Wiens, Jocqué, García-Vázquez, and Smith, 2023, J. Vert. Biol., 72(23072): 1–24, noted that this name likely covers more than one lineage-species.

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