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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 cuneatus (Cope, 1862)

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

Hylodes cuneatus Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 152. Syntypes: USNM 5202 (2 specimens), by original designation and Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 61. Type locality: "Eastern Cuba"; restricted to "inmediaciones de Monte Verde, Meseta del Guaso, ca. 27 km al NE de la ciudad de Guantánamo, provincia de Guantánamo, Cuba" by Estrada and Hedges, 1998, Caribb. J. Sci., 34: 218–230.

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

Eleutherodactylus cuneatus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Barbour, 1914, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 44: 244.

Eleutherodactylus sierra-maestrae Schmidt, 1920, Proc. Linn. Soc. New York, 33: 3. Holotype: AMNH 6450, by original designation. Type locality: "Sierra Maestra Range, in the Province of Oriente, Cuba". [Note that Oriente Province has been partitioned.] Synonymy by Estrada and Hedges, 1998, Caribb. J. Sci., 34: 218–230.

Eleutherodactylus brevipalmatus Schmidt, 1920, Proc. Linn. Soc. New York, 33: 4. Holotype: AMNH 6448, by original designation. Type locality: "Sierra Maestra Range, Province of Oriente [now partitioned], Cuba". Synonymy with Eleutherodactylus sierramaestrae by Schwartz, 1960, Sci. Publ. Reading Public Mus. Art Gallery, 11: 18.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) cuneatus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325;Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) sierramaestrae — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325.

Euhyas cuneata — 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: 361; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 433; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 433.

Common Names

Juventud Robber Frog (Eleutherodactylus cuneatus: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).

Sierra Maestra Robber Frog (Eleutherodactylus sierramaestrae [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79).

Oriente Streamside Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 10).

Distribution

Mountains of southeastern Cuba (Holguin, Granma, Santiago de Cuba, and Guantanamo provinces), from sea level to 1970 m elevation

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cuba

Endemic: Cuba

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus ricordii group, according to Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 16, and Schwartz, 1960, Sci. Publ. Reading Public Mus. Art Gallery, 11: 18. Not assignable to species group according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group, according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 232. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) luteolus species series, Eleutherodactylus cuneatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 68–69, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 130. Díaz and Cádiz, 2007, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 3: 100–122, reported on the advertisement call. Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 104–105, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 47, summarized the natural history literature and noted that prior to 1998 populations now referred to Eleutherodactylus riparius were considered to be part of this species. Rivalta González, Rodríguez Schettino, Mancina, and Iturriaga, 2014, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 145: 19–20, 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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