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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 fleischmanni (Boettger, 1892)

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

Hylodes fleischmanni Boettger, 1892, Kat. Batr. Samml. Mus. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges.: 27. Syntypes: SMF 1200.2a (3 specimens); SMF 3778 (formerly 1200.2a) designated lectotype by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 39. Type locality: "San José, [Canton de San José, Provincia San José,] Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 105–106, commented on the type locality.

Lithodytes euryglossus Cope, 1894, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 46: 194-206. Holotype: AMNH 5462 (formerly Museo Nacional de Costa Rica No. 448), according to XXX. Type locality: "San José", Canton de San José, Provincia San José, Costa Rica. Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 105–106, commented on the type locality. Synonymy by Dunn, 1940, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 92: 105–122; and Savage, 1975, Copeia, 1975: 268.

Liohyla fleischmanni — Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Vol. 7, Rept. Batr., Part 156: 222.

Liohyla engytympanum Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Vol. 7, Rept. Batr., Part 156: 224. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.16.5 (formerly numbered 1894.11.15.26), according to museum records. Type locality: "Costa Rica, Monte Redondo", Canton de Asseri, San José, Costa Rica. Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 103, commented on the type locality. Synonymy by Dunn, 1940, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 92: 105–122; and Savage, 1975, Copeia, 1975: 268.

Hylodes euryglossus — Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 157: 232.

Eleutherodactylus fleishmanni — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583, by implication; Barbour and Dunn, 1921, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 34: 161. Incorrect subsequent spelling. Based on specimens of Eleutherodactylus escoces and Eleutherodactylus ranoides according to Campbell and Savage, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 271.

Eleutherodactylus punctariolus engytympanum — Dunn, 1940, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 92: 108.

Eleutherodactylus punctariolus fleischmanni — Dunn, 1940, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 92: 108. Based on a composite of several members of the Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group according to Campbell and Savage, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 269.

Eleutherodactylus fleischmanni — Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 750.

Eleutherodactylus engytympanum — Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 753.

Eleutherodactylus euryglossus — Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 764.

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

Craugastor fleischmanni — 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 (Craugastor) fleischmanni — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 41.

Common Names

Fleischmann's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).

Distribution

In Costa Rica on the Meseta Central Oriental and Occidental, the Pacific slopes of the volcanoes Poás and Barva, the Atlantic slopes of the volcanoes Irazú and Turrialba and the slopes of the Cordillera de Talamanca, 1060–2286 m elevation; possibly to western Panama.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica

Endemic: Costa Rica

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rugulosus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. See account by Campbell and Savage, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 271–274. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 250, who included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus rugulosus group. In the Craugastor punctariolus species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 42, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 303. 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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