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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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Eleutherodactylus auriculatus (Cope, 1862)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Eleutherodactylidae > Subfamily: Eleutherodactylinae > Genus: Eleutherodactylus > Species: Eleutherodactylus auriculatus

Hylodes auriculatus Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 152. Syntypes: by original designation, "Mus. Smithsonian, (No. 5207.) Philadelphia Academy [now lost?].", presumably lost as not noted in recent USNM or ANSP type lists. Type locality: "Eastern Cuba".

Hylodes (Hylodes) auriculatus — Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 153.

Eleutherodactylus auriculatus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 583.

Eleutherodactylus sonans Dunn, 1925, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 164. Holotype: MCZ 10609, by original designation. Type locality: "Soledad, [Cienfuegos Province,] Cuba". Synonymy by Barbour, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 82: 97.

Eleutherodactylus auriculatus sonans — Barbour, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 82: 97.

Eleutherodactylus sonans — Schwartz, 1958, Herpetologica, 14: 70.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) auriculatus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 326; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10093; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2; Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 55-56.

Common Names

Eastern Cuba Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 72).

Cuban Telegraphic Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 9).

Distribution

Widespread on Cuba and Isla de Pinos (= Isla de Juventud), sea level to 1300 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cuba

Endemic: Cuba

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group, according to Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 2, and Schwartz, 1965, Herpetologica, 21: 27-31. See also Schwartz, 1960, Sci. Publ. Reading Public Mus. Art Gallery, 11: 4–5. In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus section, unassigned to series or species group, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 326. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 220. Hedges, Estrada, and Thomas, 1992, Herpetol. Monogr., 6: 68–83, reported on the call. Díaz and Cádiz, 2007, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 3: 100–122, reported on the advertisement call. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) auriculatus species series, Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 55, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 129 (who rendered the group monophyletic). Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 111–112, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Rodríguez, Vences, Nevado, Machordom, and Verheyen, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 54: 179–186, provided phylogenetic information. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 38, summarized the natural history literature. Rivalta González, Rodríguez Schettino, Mancina, and Iturriaga, 2014, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 145: 12, provided a dot map and localities. Rodriguez, Börner, Pabijan, Gehara, Haddad, and Vences, 2015, Evol. Ecol., 29: 765–785 (and supplemental data), reported on phylogeographic diversity and its causes. Bignotte-Giró, Fong-G., and López-Iborra, 2019, Amphibia-Reptilia, 40: 1–11, reported on the call and niche partitioning.

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