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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 montanus (Taylor, 1942)

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

Microbatrachylus montanus Taylor, 1942, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 28: 67. Holotype: USNM 115507, by original designation. Type locality: "Mount Ovando, Chiapas, 6,000 ft. elevation", Mexico. Secondary homonym of Eleutherodactylus montanus Schmidt, 1919, when in Eleutherodactylus.

Eleutherodactylus sartori Lynch, 1965, Nat. Hist. Misc., 182: 10. Replacement name for Microbatrachylus montanus Taylor, 1942, when Microbatrachylus montanus is in Eleutherodactylus.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) sartori — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317, by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094.

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

Craugastor sartori — Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 310.

English Names

Chiapas Dwarf Robber Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 21; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 11).

Distribution

Intermediate to high elevations (1200 to ca. 2000 m) of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, and adjacent regions of the Department of San Marcos, Guatemala.

Geographics occurrence

Natural resident: Guatemala, Mexico

Comment

See comment under Eleutherodactylus greggi. In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) rhodopis group, according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 232. See discussion by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 135–136. Crawford and Smith, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 35: 540, provided (as Eleutherodactylus sartori) a record from La Fraternidad, San Marcos, Guatemala, as part of a wider revisionary study. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Craugastor sartori) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 310. 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. In the Craugastor (Craugastor) mexicanus species series of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123. See account by Jameson, Streicher, Manuelli, Head, and Smith, 2022, Herpetol. Monogr., 36: 29–30, who placed this in their Craugastor mexicanus series as well as providing descriptive morphology, morphometrics, and molecular markers.

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