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* = "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.
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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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Dischidodactylus Lynch, 1979

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Genus: Dischidodactylus

2 species

Dischidodactylus Lynch, 1979, Am. Mus. Novit., 2680: 5. Type species: Elosia duidensis Rivero, 1968, by original designation.

Dischiodactylus — Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 581. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Common Names

Mount Duida Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 71).

Distribution

Cerro Duida and Tepui Marahuaca, Venezuela.

Comment

Lynch, 1979, Am. Mus. Novit., 2680: 5, placed this genus in his Telmatobiinae despite the similarity of its peculiar digit morphology to that of Hylodinae according to D.C. Cannatella in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 265. Assignment to Strabomantidae or Strabomantinae by Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 1-182, was provisional due to not being included in their analysis. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, also did not include this taxon in their analysis and placed it provisionally as incertae sedis within Craugastoridae. Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 125, transferred this genus to Ceuthomantinae (as Pristimantinae), Craugastoridae on the basis of a morphological synapomorphy shared with Ceuthomantis. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris Vasquez, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 111, noted the incertainty surrounding the taxonomic placement of this genus. Ospina-Sarria and Grant, 2022, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 195: 986, placed the genus within Craugastoridae but not to subfamily, noting a morphological synapomorphy of the position of the origin of the m. iliacus externus. Due to the lack agreement of the two putative morphological synapomorphies, Dischidodactylus is here placed as unnassigned as the level of Brachycephaloides.

Contained taxa (2 sp.):

Dischidodactylus colonnelloi Ayarzagüena, 1985

Dischidodactylus duidensis (Rivero, 1968)

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