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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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Pristimantis unistrigatus (Günther, 1859)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Craugastoridae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Pristimantis > Species: Pristimantis unistrigatus

Hylodes unistrigatus Günther, 1859, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859: 416. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.17.7–9 (formerly 1860.6.16.97–98, 1860.6.16.105), according to J.D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 326. Type locality: "western Ecuador".

Hylodes lehmanni Boettger, 1892, Kat. Batr. Samml. Mus. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges.: 26. Syntypes: SMF 1200.1a (2 specimens); SMF 3777 (formerly 1200.1a) considered holotype by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 39. Type locality: "Páramo del Bordoncillo, 3500 m, Verein. Staaten vom Columbia". Synonymy by Lynch, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 32.

Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Barbour and Noble, 1920, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 63: 401; Gorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 80..

Eleutherodactylus lehmanni — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Gorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 80.

Prostherapis equatorialis Barbour, 1908, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 51: 320. Syntypes: MCZ 2261 (2 specimens), by original designation. Type locality: "Equador". Synonymy by Barbour and Noble, 1920, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 63: 401.

Syrrhophus coeruleus Andersson, 1945, Ark. Zool., 37A(2): 24. Syntypes: NHRM 1913 (5 specimens), according to XXX. Type locality: "Eastern Ecuador". Synonymy by Lynch, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 32.

Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus unistrigatus Cochran, 1948, Am. Mus. Novit., 1375: 1, by implication.

Syrrhopus caeruleus — Peters, 1955, Rev. Ecuat. Entomol. Parsitol., 2: 232.

Eleutherodactylus coeruleus — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 196, by implication.

Eleutherodactylus coeruleus — Lynch, 1968, Herpetologica, 24: 289–300.

Phyllobates equatorialis — Silverstone, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 27: 5.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) unistrigatus — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234.

Pristimantis unistrigatus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128.

Common Names

Cuico Rainfrog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxvii).

Cutín Cuico (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: xxxvii).

Striped Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80).

Distribution

Inter-Andean valleys from southern Colombia (Nariño and Putumayo departments) to central Ecuador (Carchi, Sucumbíos, Imbabura, Pichincha, Napo, Cotopaxi, Tungurahua, and Chimborazo provinces), 1500 to 3499 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus assembly of the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group. See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 59–60, and Lynch, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 32–37. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234. Almendáriz C. and Orcés, 2004, Rev. Politécnica, Quito, 25: 130–131, provided distributional data for Ecuador. Mueses-Cisneros, 2005, Caldasia, 27: 237, provided records for Putumayo, Colombia. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) unistrigatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 128. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 127. Chaves-Acuña, Moreno, and Yánez-Muñoz, 2023, Phyllomedusa, 22: 49–55, reported on the advertisement call and discussed the systematics of the species. Included in the Pristimantis unistrigatus clade of the Pristimantis unistrigatus group as delimited by Mônico, Koch, Ferrão, Fernandes, Marques, Chaparro, Rodrigues, Lima, and Fouquet, 2024, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 108203: 1–19, on molecular grounds (mtDNA and nuDNA genes). Batallas-Revelo, Márquez, and Guayasamin, 2025, ZooKeys, 1224: 211–252, reported on the advertisement call from Carchi Province, Ecuador, as well upon previous literature on the acoustics of this species. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 3: 410–413, provided an account with photographs which summarized morphological identification, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), and conservation.

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