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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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Pristimantis curtipes (Boulenger, 1882)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Pristimantis > Species: Pristimantis curtipes

Hylodes curtipes Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 218. Syntypes: including BMNH 1878.1.25.29–36, WCAB (now in MZUSP), MSNG, and USNM (now USNM 789); BMNH 78.1.25.29 designated lectotype by Lynch, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 7. Type locality: "Intac", Provincia Imbabura, Ecuador.

Hylodes whymperi Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 218. Types: BMNH 1882.7.13.3–5 (now BMNH 1947.2.17.22–24) by museum records; BMNH 1947.2.17.22 (a reregisterd number) designated lectotype by Lynch, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 7. Type localities: "Tortorillas, Chimboraza [Province] (13,200 feet)", and "Cotocachi (13,000 feet)", Imbaburas Province, Ecuador; restricted to Tortorillas by lectotype designation. (Boulenger, 1882, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 9: 466, refers to "Two specimens from Pichincha (11,000 to 12,000 feet), one from the valley of Collanes (12,500 feet), one from Cotocachi (13,000 feet) and two from Tortorillas, lower slopes of Chimborazo (13,200 feet)", so if the second description actually appeared first, some change in type status will be warranted. Synonymy by Lynch, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 7. See more complete description in Boulenger, 1882, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 9: 457–467.

Eleutherodactylus whymperi — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Barbour and Loveridge, 1929, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 69: 264.

Eleutherodactylus curtipes — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Peters, 1955, Rev. Ecuat. Entomol. Parsitol., 2: 346.

Hyla chimboe Fowler, 1913, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 65: 157. Holotype: ANSP 18137 by original designation. Type locality: "Mountains above Chimbo [= San José del Chimbo], 10,000–10,800 feet", Chimborazo Province, Ecuador. Synonymy by Lynch, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 7.

Eleutherodactylus anae Rivero, 1986, Caribb. J. Sci., 22: 107. Holotype: UPRM 7017, by original designation. Type locality: "Pifo (Hacienda del Dr. Camilo Ponce Enríquez, ex-presidented de la República), Prov. Pichincha, Ecuador, alrededor de 3000 m." Synonymy by Wiens and Coloma, 1992, J. Herpetol., 26: 196–207.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) curtipes — 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.

Pristimantis curtipes — 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: Table 2.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) curtipes — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121.

Common Names

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

Distribution

Elevations of 2750–4400 m on the Nudo de Pasto of southern Colombia (2745–4400 m elevation) and in the western and eastern Andes of Ecuador south to the Desierto de Palmira.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

Lynch, 1981, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 7–25, described geographic variation and provided a diagnosis. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus curtipes group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 223. Almendáriz C. and Orcés, 2004, Rev. Politécnica, Quito, 25: 121–122, provided distributional data for Ecuador. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) curtipes species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 120–121. In the reformulated Pristimantis devillei species group of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. Brito-M., Batallas-Revelo, and Yánez-Muñoz, 2017, Neotropical Biodiversity, 3: 125–156. provided a record of Pristimantis aff curtipes from Morona Santiago, Ecuador and brief natural history notes.

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