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* = "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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Niceforonia philippi (Jmenez de la Espada, 1875)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Hypodactylinae > Genus: Niceforonia > Species: Niceforonia philippi

Hylodes philippi Jiménez de la Espada, 1875, Vert. Viaje Pacif. Verif. 1862–1865: 215. Holotype: Animal figured on plate 3, figs. 2 and 2a. Given by González-Fernández, 2006, Graellsia, 62: 122, as MNCN 1600. Type locality: Not stated; data on label as "San José de Moti" , Ecuador, according to González-Fernández, 2006, Graellsia, 62: 122; he also discussed (pp. 141–142) the ambiguity surrounding the name, San José de Moti, which could now correspond to San José de Suno (also called San José Viejo) or to San José de Mote (also known as San José Nuevo).

Hylodes verrucosus Jiménez de la Espada, 1875, Vert. Viaje Pacif. Verif. 1862–1865: 215. Holotype: Animal figured on plate 3, figs. 1 and 1a. Given by González-Fernández, 2006, Graellsia, 62: 122, as MNCN 1599. Type locality: Not stated; data on label as "San José de Moti" , Ecuador, according to González-Fernández, 2006, Graellsia, 62: 122; he also discussed (pp. 141–142) the ambiguity surrounding the name, San José de Moti, which could now correspond to San José de Suno (also called San José Viejo) or to San José de Mote (also known as San José Nuevo). Synonomy by Padial, Chaparro, and De la Riva, 2008, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 152: 737.

Eleutherodactylus dolops Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 26. Holotype: KU 143505, by original designation. Type locality: "Salto de Agua, 2.5 km NNE Río Reventador, Provincia Napo, Ecuador, 1660 m." Synonymy by Sánchez-Vialas, Miñarro, Padial, and De la Riva, 2023, Zootaxa, 5330: 117.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) dolops — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223.

"Eleutherodactylus" dolops — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10094; Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: 3.

Isodactylus dolops — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 108.

Hypodactylus dolops — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1795: 67–68.

Niceforonia dolops — Acosta-Galvis, Streicher, Manuelli, Cuddy, and de Sá, 2018, Zootaxa, 4514: 494.

Niceforonia philippi — Sánchez-Vialas, Miñarro, Padial, and De la Riva, 2023, Zootaxa, 5330: 117.

English Names

Putumayo Robber Frog (Eleutherodactylus dolops: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 74).

Distribution

Known from a few scattered localities across the eastern Andean foothills of northern Ecuador (Napo Province) and southern Colombia (departments of Putumayo and Caquetá) at elevations of 940–1950 m

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus dolops group (as Eleutherodactylus dolops), according to Lynch, 1989, Milwaukee Public Mus. Contrib. Biol. Geol., 79: 1–25. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus dolops group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 10092–10097, removed this species from nominal Eleutherodactylus but did not provide a new generic name; see comment under Hypodactylus. Mueses-Cisneros, 2005, Caldasia, 27: 235, provided a record for Putumayo, Colombia. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus dolops) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 334. The amazingly complex nomenclatural history of this taxon detailed by Sánchez-Vialas, Miñarro, Padial, and De la Riva, 2023, Zootaxa, 5330: 117–125.

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