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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 occidentalis (Taylor, 1941)

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

Borborocoetes mexicanus Boulenger, 1898, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1898: 477. Syntypes: BMNH 1892.2.8.66–67 according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 109; renumbered 1947.2.16.66-67, with 1947.2.16.67 designated lectotype by Streicher, García-Vázquez, Ponce-Campos, Flores-Villela, Campbell, and Smith, 2014, Syst. Biodiversity, 12: 15. Type locality: "Hacienda el Florencio, Zacatecas, Mexico"; noted to be nearly directly north of San Cristobal on the eastern slope of Sierra de Florencio in Zacatecas by Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 109. Secondary homonym of Leiuperus mexicanus Brocchi, 1879.

Eleutherodactylus mexicanus — Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 98-99.

Eleutherodactylus occidentalis Taylor, 1941, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 54: 91. Replacement name for Borborocoetes mexicanus Boulenger, 1898.

Hylactophryne mexicanus — Lynch, 1976, Herpetologica, 32: 346-347.

Hylactophryne occidentalis — Lynch, 1976, Herpetologica, 32: 346.

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

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) occidentalis — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 229.

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

English Names

Taylor's Barking 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

Western Michoacán, Colima, and northeastern Jalisco west and north to southwestern Durango, southern Zacatecas, and southern Sinaloa, Mexico.

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: 229; formerly considered a member of Hylactophryne (= the Eleutherodactylus augusti group) by Lynch, 1976, Herpetologica, 32: 346–347. In the Eleutherodactylus rhodopis group according to Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 129–156. Arenas-Monroy, González-Saucedo, Carbajal-Márquez, and Sigala-Rodríguez, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 298, provided a second record for southern Zacatecas, Mexico. Discussed as part of a phylogenetic analysis of the Craugastor rhodopis species group by Streicher, García-Vázquez, Ponce-Campos, Flores-Villela, Campbell, and Smith, 2014, Syst. Biodiversity, 12: 1–22. In the Craugastor (Craugastor) mexicanus species series of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123. Lemos-Espinal, Smith, and Valdes-Lares, 2019, Amph. Rept. Durango: 58–59, provided a brief account for Durango, Mexico. Quezada-Hipólito, Smith, Suazo-Ortuño, Alvarado-Díaz, González, Thammachoti, and Smart, 2019, Rev. Mexicana Biodiversidad, 90(e902448): 1–15, commented on the impact of vulcanism in the Trans-Volcanic belt of Mexico on biogeography. Ahumada-Carrillo, Grünwald, López Cuellar, and Jones, 2020, Herpetol. Rev., 51: 277–278, reported the species from the municipality of Mesquitic, northern Jalisco, Mexico.

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