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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 wetmorei Cochran, 1932

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

Eleutherodactylus wetmorei Cochran, 1932, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 45: 191. Holotype: USNM 72617, by original designation. Type locality: "Fonds-des-Nègres, [Département du Sud,] Haiti".

Eleutherodactylus auriculatus wetmorei — Cochran, 1941, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 177: 74.

Eleutherodactylus varians wetmorei — Schwartz, 1960, Sci. Publ. Reading Public Mus. Art Gallery, 11: 6.

Eleutherodactylus wetmorei wetmorei — Schwartz, 1968, Breviora, 290: 3.

Eleutherodactylus wetmorei ceraemerus Schwartz, 1968, Breviora, 290: 5. Holotype: MCZ 36101, by original designation. Type locality: "Thiotte, Dépt. de l'Ouest, Haiti".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) wetmorei — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 328; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 10.

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

Common Names

Wetmore's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 80).

Tiburon Whistling Frog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 13).

Distribution

Tiberon Peninsula (Haiti) east to the Massif de la Selle of southwestern Dominican Republic; also from the Massif du Nord of west-central Dominican Republic west to north-central Haiti, 0–1324 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Dominican Republic, Haiti

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus group, according to Shreve and Williams, 1963, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 129: 302-342, and Schwartz, 1969, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 30: 101. Reviewed by Schwartz, 1968, Breviora, 290: 1-13, who recognized three subspecies (of which, Eleutherodactylus diplasius and Eleutherodactylus sommeri are now recognized distinct species). In the Eleutherodactylus auriculatus section, Eleutherodactylus montanus series, Eleutherodactylus wetmorei species group, according to Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 328. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus martinicensis group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 234. See Eleutherodactylus diplasius, Eleutherodactylus ceraemerus, and Eleutherodactylus sommeri. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) varians species series, Eleutherodactylus wetmorei species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 64 (and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 130), who suggested that the nominal subspecies, Eleutherodactylus wetmorei ceramaerus likely constituted a distinct species. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 390. Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 82-83, summarized the natural history literature. Ríos-López, 2023, In Rios-Lopez and Heatwole (eds.), Conserv. Biogeograph. Amph. Caribb.: 218–262, discussed intergradation of the subspecies, systematic history, and conservation status.

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