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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 longipes (Baird, 1859)

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

Batrachyla longipes Baird, 1859, Rep. U.S-Mex. Bound. Surv., 2(Pt. 2-Rept.): 35. Holotype: USNM 3237; now lost, according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 107; see discussion by Barbour, 1923, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 8: 81–83. Type locality: "Mexico"; considered to be 40 leagues [about 120 miles, according to Barbour, 1923, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 8: 81] north of Mexico City by Cope, 1887, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 32: 16; see Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 107, for discussion.

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

Epirhexis longipes — Cope, 1866, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 96.

Hylodes longipes — Garman, 1884, Bull. Essex Inst., 16: 42; Günther, 1901, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 162: 240.

Eleutherodactylus longipes — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Barbour, 1923, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 8: 81; Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 95. 107; Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 198; by implication; Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318.

Syrrhophus latodactylus Taylor, 1940 "1939", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 26: 397. Holotype: EHT-HMS 6807, by original designation; now FMNH 100063 according to according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 66. Type locality: "Huasteca Cañon, about 15 km. west of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, elevation about 680 meters". Synonymy by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 30. Opinion 1024, Anonymous, 1974, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 31: 130–132, stated that Syrrhophus latodactylus is not to be used in preference of Batrachyla longipes when considered synonyms.

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

Syrrhophus longipes — Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 30.

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes — 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.

Syrrhophus longipes — 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

Long-footed Frog (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 24).

Long-footed Robber Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 19).

Longfoot Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76).

Long-footed Chirping Frog (Conzelman, 1973, HISS News J., 1: 153; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24).

Distribution

Moderate elevations (650–2000 m) along the Sierra Madre Oriental in pine-oak woodland from central Nuevo León and adjacent Coahuila through San Luis Potosí to northern Hidalgo, Mexico.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes group, Eleutherodactylus longipes series of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318–319. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 227. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, Eleutherodactylus longipes species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 90. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 355. Conzelman, 1973, HISS News J., 1: 153, provided a record for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Lemos-Espinal and Smith, 2007, Anf. Rept. Coahuila México: 50–52, provided an account for Coahuila, Mexico. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2013, Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí: 49, provided an account for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2016, Amph. Rept. Hidalgo: 365–366, provided a brief account and map for Hidalgo, 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. Tepos-Ramírez, Garduño-Fonseca, Peralta-Robles, García-Rubio, and Cervantes Jiménez, 2023, Check List, 19: 269–292, discussed the distribution and conservation status of the species in Queretaro, Mexico.

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