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* = "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.
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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 inoptatus (Barbour, 1914)

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

Leptodactylus inoptatus Barbour, 1914, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 44: 252. Holotype: MCZ 3087, by original designation. Type locality: "Diquini, [Département de l'Ouest,] Haiti". Placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology by Opinion 1104, Anonymous, 1978, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 34: 223.

Eleutherodactylus inoptatus — Schmidt, 1921, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 44: 9.

Eleutherodactylus beebei Cochran, 1956, Zoologica, New York, 42: 11. Holotype: USNM 129526 Type locality: "Kartabo, British Guiana" (in error according to Schwartz, Thomas, and Ober, 1978, Spec. Publ. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 5: 5. Synonymy by Lynch, 1976, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 61: 1-24.

Eleutherodactylus (Pelorius) inoptatus — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 329; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Pelorius inoptatus — 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.

English Names

Diquini Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).

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

Distribution

Hispaniola; islandwide but unreported from large areas in Haiti and the Dominican Republic; Ile de la Tortue; sea level to 1700 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Dominican Republic, Haiti

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus inoptatus group, according to Schwartz, 1965, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 132: 508. Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 318, put this species in the more inclusive Eleutherodactylus varians group (= Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group). See discussion by Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 141–156. In a more exclusive Eleutherodactylus inoptatus group of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 329. Hedges and Thomas, 1987, Herpetologica, 43: 269–279, discussed the advertisement call. In the Eleutherodactylus (Pelorius) inoptatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 226. In the Eleutherodactylus (Pelorius) inoptatus species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 85, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 131. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 57, summarized the natural history literature. Galvis-Peñuela, Caorsi, Sánchez-Pacheco, and Rada, 2018, Bioacoustics, 27: 1–12, reported on the advertisement call. Ríos-López, 2023, In Rios-Lopez and Heatwole (eds.), Conserv. Biogeograph. Amph. Caribb.: 218–262, discussed conservation status in Haiti and issues bearing on that.

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