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Hyl* |
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| * = "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 |
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Hyla |
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Lithobates AND pipiens |
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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 |
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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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| 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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Diasporus Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008
17 species
English Names
Dink Frogs (Chaves, García-Rodríguez, Mora, and Leal, 2009, Zootaxa, 2088: 1).
Distribution
Extreme eastern Honduras south along the Atlantic coastal plain of Nicaragua to Costa Rica (on both coasts) thence east to the western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador.
Comment
All members of this taxon were former members of the Eleutherodactylus diastema group. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their molecular study, confirmed the sister-taxon relationship of Diasporus and Eleutherodactylus. Hertz, Hauenschild, Lotzkat, and Köhler, 2012, ZooKeys, 196: 23-46, provided an identification key to the species of Central America as well as a preliminary phylogenetic tree. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 140–191, provided a key to the species of Diasporus in Central America and provided maps and photographs of the species. Batista, Köhler, Mebert, Hertz, and Veselý, 2016, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 178: 267–311, reviewed the species of eastern Panama and provided a key to all species in the genus. Ospina-Sarria, Velásquez-Trujillo, Castaño Saavedra, Castillo, and Bolívar-García, 2022, PeerJ, 10(e12765): 1–21, provided a molecular tree of the species within the genus and a discussion of morphological characters previously considered synapomorphic for and within the group.
Contained taxa (17 sp.):
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