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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.
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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 galdi Jiménez de la Espada, 1870

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

Pristimantis galdi Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, 3: 61. Type(s): Not stated; types formerly in MNCN, now lost according to Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 30; reported as MNCN 1613-1603 by González-Fernández, 2006, Graellsia, 62: 121: 180. Type locality: "in Ecuador; ad sylvas vicinas pagi S. Jose de Moti". According to González-Fernández, 2006, Graellsia, 62: 141–142, there is 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 galdii — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 219.

Hylodes galdi — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 219; Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 444.

Hylodes Festae Peracca, 1904, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, 19 (465): 28. Holotype: MZUT An513, according to Gavetti and Andreone, 1993, Cat. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat., Torino, 10: 48. Type locality: "San Josè" (= San José de Cuchipamba), Santiago-Zamora Privince, Ecuador, according to Peters, 1955, Rev. Ecuat. Entomol. Parsitol., 2: 348]. Synonymy by Lynch, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 31: 16.

Eleutherodactylus festae — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Peters, 1955, Rev. Ecuat. Entomol. Parsitol., 2: 348.

Eleutherodactylus galdi — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Peters, 1955, Rev. Ecuat. Entomol. Parsitol., 2: 350.

Hylodes margaritifer Boulenger, 1912, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 10: 189. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.16.78–79 (formerly 1912.11.1.54–55), according to Lynch, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 31: 21. Type locality: "El Topo, R. Pastaz, [Tungurahua Province,] E. Ecuador, 4200 feet". Synonymy by Lynch, 1969, Herpetologica, 25: 262–274, and Lynch, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 31: 15.

Eleutherodactylus margaritifer — Peters, 1955, Rev. Ecuat. Entomol. Parsitol., 2: 348.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) galdi — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224.

Pristimantis galdi — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) galdi — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 122.

Common Names

Espada's Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 75).

Distribution

Humid montane forests at elevations of 1000–2100 m on the eastern face of the Cordillera Oriental, the Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador, and one locality in the Province of Bagua, Department of Amazonas, Peru, and another in the Province of Huancabamba, Department of Piura, Peru.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador, Peru

Comment

See accounts by Lynch, 1969, Herpetologica, 25: 262–274, and Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 30–31. In the more exclusive Eleutherodactylus galdi group of Lynch, 1996, Copeia, 1996: 103–108. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus galdi group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 224. See account by Duellman and Pramuk, 1999, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 13: 1–78. Lehr and Aguilar, 2004, Herpetol. Rev., 35: 280–281, provided the record for Piura, Peru. In the Pristimantis galdi species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 122, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 126. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status (as Eleutherodactylus galdi) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 620. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 180–181, for brief account. Reyes-Puig, Reyes-Puig, and Yánez-Muñoz, 2013, Avanc. Cienc. Ingen., Quito, Secc. B,, 5(2): B5–B13, discussed the altitudinal range in Ecuador. Brito-M., Batallas-Revelo, and Yánez-Muñoz, 2017, Neotropical Biodiversity, 3: 125–156, provided a record from Morona Santiago, Ecuador and brief natural history notes. Batallas-Revelo and Brito-M., 2023, Herpetozoa, Wien, 36: 59–64, reported on the advertisement call.

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