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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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Microkayla De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, and Padial, 2017

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Holoadeninae > Genus: Microkayla

25 species

Microkayla De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, and Padial, 2017 "2018", Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 182: 146. Type species Psychrophrynella teqta De la Riva and Burrowes, 2014. urn:lsid: zoobank.org:act:F7221ACB-FD97-4DFE-85F9-4CEFE5F6F058

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Cloud forests, elfin forests and humid puna of the Amazonian versant of the Cordillera Oriental of the Andes, from the eastern part of Cordillera of Carabaya (Department of Puno) in southern Peru to the western limits of Department Santa Cruz in central Bolivia (Serranía Siberia, on the boundaries of Carrasco National Park – Department of Cochabamba – and Amboró National Park – Department of Santa Cruz), between 2466 and ca. 4000 m elevation, encompassing a straight line distance of ca. 670 km.

Comment

Portik, Streicher, and Wiens, 2023, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 188 (107907): 52, 67, suggested that the placement of Microkayla guillei as the sister taxon of part of their Noblella + Psychrophynella, might render Microkayla nonmonophyletic but recommended no taxonomic change due to weak support for this topology.

Contained taxa (25 sp.):

Microkayla adenopleura (Aguayo-Vedia and Harvey, 2001)

Microkayla ankohuma (Padial and De la Riva, 2007)

Microkayla boettgeri (Lehr, 2006)

Microkayla chacaltaya (De la Riva, Padial, and Cortéz, 2007)

Microkayla chapi De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, and Padial, 2017

Microkayla chaupi (De la Riva and Aparicio, 2016)

Microkayla chilina De la Riva, Chaparro, Castroviejo-Fisher, and Padial, 2017

Microkayla colla (De la Riva, Aparicio, Soto, and Ríos, 2016)

Microkayla condoriri (De la Riva, Aguayo, and Padial, 2007)

Microkayla guillei (De la Riva, 2007)

Microkayla harveyi (Muñoz, Aguayo, and De la Riva, 2007)

Microkayla huayna De la Riva, Cortez F., and Burrowes, 2017

Microkayla iani (De la Riva, Reichle, and Cortéz, 2007)

Microkayla iatamasi (Aguayo-Vedia and Harvey, 2001)

Microkayla illampu (De la Riva, Reichle, and Padial, 2007)

Microkayla illimani (De la Riva and Padial, 2007)

Microkayla kallawaya (De la Riva and Martínez-Solano, 2007)

Microkayla katantika (De la Riva and Martínez-Solano, 2007)

Microkayla kempffi (De la Riva, 1992)

Microkayla melanocheira (De la Riva, Ríos, and Aparicio, 2016)

Microkayla pinguis (Harvey and Ergueta-Sandoval, 1998)

Microkayla quimsacruzis (De la Riva, Reichle, and Bosch, 2007)

Microkayla saltator (De la Riva, Reichle, and Bosch, 2007)

Microkayla teqta (De la Riva and Burrowes, 2014)

Microkayla wettsteini (Parker, 1932)

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