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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 mexicanus (Brocchi, 1877)

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

Leiuperus mexicanus Brocchi, 1877, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 7, 1: 184. Holotype: MNHNP 6318, according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 108; Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 31. Type locality: "Mexique". Restricted to "San Felipe, Cerro (15 kilometers northeast of Oaxaca)", Oaxaca, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 339.

Paludicola ? mexicana — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 237.

Paludicola mexicana — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 513.

Pleurodema mexicana — Parker, 1927, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 20: 475.

Microbatrachylus oaxacae Taylor, 1940 "1939", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 26: 504-507. Holotype: EHT-HMS 18197, by original designation; now FMNH 100001, according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 58. Type locality: "on Cerro San Felipe, near Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico". Synonymy by Lynch, 1970, Herpetologica, 26: 176.

Microbatrachylus lineatissimus Taylor, 1941, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 54: 87. Holotype: EHT-HMS 24289, by original designation; now FMNH 100036 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 58. Type locality: "Cerro San Felipe, near Oaxaca, Oaxaca; elevation between 7,000 and 8,000 ft.", Mexico. Synonymy by Lynch, 1970, Herpetologica, 26: 172-180.

Microbatrachylus fuscatus Davis and Dixon, 1957, Herpetologica, 13: 146. Holotype: TCWC 12171, by original designation. Type locality: "20 miles east of Tulancingo, 7300 ft., Hidalgo, Mexico". Synonymy by Lynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 5.

Eleutherodactylus mexicanus fuscatus — Lynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 5.

Eleutherodactylus oaxacae — Lynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 3.

Eleutherodactylus lineatissimus — Lynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 3.

Eleutherodactylus mexicanus — Gorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 86; Gorham, 1974, Checklist World Amph.: 54.

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

Craugastor mexicanus — 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) mexicanus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 39.

Common Names

Mexican Robber Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 20; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 10).

Distribution

Widespread throughout eastern Mexico in high-elevation habitats (1554–2700 m) of Oaxaca, Puebla, Hidalgo, and Veracruz; these habitats span the Sierra Madre Oriental and Sierra Madre del Sur.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rhodopis group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. See discussion by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 133–135. In the Craugastor (Craugastor) mexicanus species series of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123. Reyes-Velasco, Grünwald, Jones, and Ahumada-Carrillo, 2020, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 3: 61–82, noted an MCZ specimen with likely erroneous collection data from Colima, Mexico. See account by Jameson, Streicher, Manuelli, Head, and Smith, 2022, Herpetol. Monogr., 36: 27–29, who placed this in their Craugastor mexicanus series and redelimited the species, as well as providing descriptive morphology, morphometrics, and molecular markers.

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