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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 marnockii (Cope, 1878)

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

Syrrhophus marnockii Cope, 1878, Am. Nat., 12: 253. Syntypes: ANSP 10765-68, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 351. Type locality: "near San Antonio", Bexar County, Texas, USA. Placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology by Opinion 1024, Anonymous, 1974, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 31: 130-132.

Syrrhophus marnochii — Cope, 1880, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 17: 26. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Hylodes marnockii — Garman, 1884, Bull. Essex Inst., 16: 42.

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

Eleutherodactylus marnockii — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 196, by implication.

Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) marnockii — 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 marnockii — 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.

Euyhas marnockii — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 433.

English Names

Marnock's Frog (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 24; Strecker, 1915, Baylor Univ. Bull., 18: 48; Wright and Wright, 1933, Handb. Frogs Toads U.S. Canada: xi).

Cliff Frog (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 60; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 177; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 304; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 13; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 12).

Cliff Chirping Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 76; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 9; Frost, McDiarmid, and Mendelson, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 5; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 24; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 7; Frost, McDiarmid, Mendelson, and Green, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 14).

Distribution

Edwards Plateau and the extreme eastern edge of the Stockton Plateau in Texas, USA; apparently isolated populations in Presidio County of West Texas, USA, in the Sierra Vieja, as well as 19.3 km southeast of Marfa.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - Texas

Endemic: United States of America, United States of America - Texas

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) marnockii group of the Eleutherodactylus longipes series of Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 318–319. See account by Lynch, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 20: 1–45. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) marnockii group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. See comment under Eleutherodactylus guttilatus, which some authors consider to be synonymous. In the Eleutherodactylus (Syrrhophus) longipes species series, Eleutherodactylus guttilatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 91, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 131. Lemos-Espinal and Smith, 2007, Anf. Rept. Coahuila México: 45–46, provided an account (as Syrrhophus marnockii) for Coahuila, Mexico. Wallace, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 496–499, and Dodd, 2013, Frogs U.S. and Canada, 1: 201–204, provided accounts that summarizes the literature of the species. Elliot, Gerhardt, and Davidson, 2009, Frogs and Toads of N. Am.: 290–291, provided an account, photos, and advertisement call. Owen, Marshall, and Davis, 2014, Herpetol. Rev., 45: 652, provided range extensions in the mountains of Presidio County, Texas, seemingly well isolated from the larger range segment to the east. 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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