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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 dimidiatus (Cope, 1862)

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

Hylodes dimidiatus Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 151. Syntypes: by original designation "Mus. Smithsonian (No. 5099) Mr. Wright Coll. Mus. Acad. Philada.", so presumably originally in USNM and ASNP although not mentioned in recent type lists and likely lost. Type locality: "Eastern Cuba".

Hylodes (Lithodytes) dimidiatus — Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 154.

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

Eleutherodactylus dimidiatus dimidiatus — Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 12.

Eleutherodactylus dimidiatus amelasma Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 12. Holotype: AMNH 59830, by original designation. Type locality: "entrance of a small cave just south of San Vicente, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba". Subspecies rejected as within range of variation of nominate form by Díaz, Cádiz, and Navarro, 2005, Caribb. J. Sci., 41: 317

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

Euhyas dimidiata — 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.

Common Names

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

Black Whiskered Frog (Rodríguez and Alonso, 2003, Herpetol. Rev., 34: 257–258).

Cuban Long-legged Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 10).

Distribution

Widespread in Cuba and the Isla de Juventud in isolated populations, 0–3175 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Cuba

Endemic: Cuba

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus dimidiatus group, with two subspecies, according to Schwartz, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1873: 2; also see Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 338, and Schwartz and Fowler, 1973, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 43: 135–136. Not assignable to species group according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 325. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) ricordii group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. Rodríguez and Alonso, 2003, Herpetol. Rev., 34: 257-258, provided the records for the Isla de Juventud and Matanzas Province, Cuba. Díaz, Cádiz, and Navarro, 2005, Caribb. J. Sci., 41: 316, provided an additional record for Isla de Juventud/Isla de Juventud. Díaz and Cádiz, 2007, Herpetotropicos, Mérida, 3: 100–122, reported on the advertisement call. In the Eleutherodactylus (Euhyas) dimidiatus species series, Eleutherodactylus dimidiatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 66–67, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 130. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 619. Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 77–78, provided a brief account, illustration, and map. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 48, summarized the natural history literature. Rivalta González, Rodríguez Schettino, Mancina, and Iturriaga, 2014, Smithson. Herpetol. Inform. Serv., 145: 17–18, 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.

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