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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 cystignathoides (Cope, 1877)

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

Phyllobates cystignathoides Cope, 1877, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 17: 89. Syntypes: USNM 32402-04, 32406-09 (according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 69), MCZ 25732 (according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 170l; formerly USNM 32405). Type locality: "Potrero near Cordova [=Córdoba], Vera Cruz under decayed trunks of trees", Mexico.

Syrrhophus cystignathoides — Cope, 1879, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 18: 268.

Syrrhopus cystignathoides — Boulenger, 1888, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1888: 206.

Syrrhaphus cystignathoides — Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 155: 218.

Syrraphus cystignathoides — Díaz de León, 1904, Indice Batr. Encuent. Rep. Mex.: 10.

Syrrhopus cystignathoides — Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 170.

Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 198, by implication.

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) cystignathoides — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318–319; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides cystignathoides — Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19.

Syrrhophus cystignathoides — 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: 362.

Euhyas cystignathoides — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 433.

English Names

Mexican Chirping Frog (Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides cystignathoides: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24).

Distribution

Provisionally, San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, and central Veracruz (Mexico).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrophus) leprus group, the Eleutherodactylus longipes series, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318–319. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) leprus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223.In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, Eleutherodactylus leprus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 89, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 131. López-Mejía and Goyenechea, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 298, provided a record for the Municipality of Tecozautla, Hidalgo, Mexico, and discussed the Hidalgan range.Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2013, Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí: 45, provided an account for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Wallace, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 494–495, and Dodd, 2013, Frogs U.S. and Canada, 1: 197–199, provided accounts that summarized the literature and range of the species (in the sense of including Eleutherodactylus campi). Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2016, Amph. Rept. Hidalgo: 364–365, provided a brief account and map for Hidalgo, Mexico. Serrano-Serrano and Penna, 2018, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 123: 388–401, reported on vocalizations. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes clade of Hernández-Austria, García-Vázquez, Grünwald, and Parra-Olea, 2022, Syst. Biodiversity, 20 (1: 2014597): 1–20, who reported on molecular phylogenetics.

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