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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 leprus (Cope, 1879)

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

Syrrhophus leprus Cope, 1879, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 18: 268. Holotype: USNM 10040, by original designation and according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 128. Type locality: "Santa Efigenia", Oaxaca, Mexico.

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

Syrrhaphus leprus — Günther, 1900, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 155: 217.

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

Syrrhophus leprus leprus — Neill, 1965, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 9: 85-86.

Syrrhophus leprus cholorum Neill, 1965, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 9: 85-86. Holotype: W.T. Neill 1525, by original designation; now in UF. Type locality: "3.9 miles north of San Antonio, Toledo District, British Honduras [= Belize]". Distinctiveness of subspecies rejected by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 20.

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) leprus — 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 (Syrrhophus) cholorum — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. Unintended combination.

Syrrhophus leprus — Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 67.

Common Names

Leprus Chirping Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76; Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 62; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 67; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24).

Mottled Chirping Frog (Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 65).

Distribution

Low elevations on Atlantic slopes from eastern San Luis Potosí, central Veracruz, and northern Oaxaca (Mexico) and Pacific slopes from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec eastward to northern Guatemala and southwestern Belize.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Belize, Guatemala, Mexico

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes series, Eleutherodactylus leprus group, 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: 227. See accounts by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 18-20, Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 62–63, Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 65-66, and Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 67–69. 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. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 354. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2013, Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí: 48, provided an account for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 183–191, provided a key to the species of Eleutherodactylus in Central America and provided maps and photographs of the species, including this one. Ramírez-González, Lara-Brenis, and Mijangos-Arrazola, 2014, Check List, 10: 679–681, provided a number of records for northern Oaxaca, Mexico. Hernández-Ordóñez, Arroyo-Rodríguez, González-Hernández, Russildi, Luna-Reyes, Martínez-Ramos, and Reynoso-Rosales, 2015, Rev. Mexicana Biodiversidad, 86: 457–468, reported localities from the Lacondona Rainforest in Chiapas, Mexico. 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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