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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 peruvianus (Melin, 1941)

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

Eleutherodactylus peruvianus — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582–583, by implication; Gorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 91.

Hylodes peruvianus Melin, 1941, Göteborgs K. Vetensk. Vitterh. Samh. Handl., Ser. B, 1: 43. Holotype: NHMG 490, according to J.D. Lynch In Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 311; reported as NHMB 0030.1 by Padial, Bielskis, and Castroviejo, 2000, Bol. Asoc. Herpetol. Esp., 11: 61. Type locality: "Roque, [Departamento San Martín,] Perú".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) peruvianus — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230.

Pristimantis peruvianus — 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) peruvianus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 126.

Common Names

Peru Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 78).

Distribution

Upper Amazon Basin in western Brazil, extreme southeastern Colombia, southern Ecuador, and eastern Peru; in cloud forests on the eastern slopes of the Andes to 1910 m. (See comment.)

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Comment

Tentatively removed from the synonymy of Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus by Lynch, 1980, Am. Mus. Novit., 2696: 4, where it had been placed by Lynch, 1975, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 272: 3. See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1980, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 69: 47–48. Rodríguez and Duellman, 1994, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 22: 60–61, provided a brief account for the Iquitos region of northeastern Peru as Eleutherodactylus peruvianus. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) conspicillatus series, Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 230. See account by Duellman and Pramuk, 1999, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 13: 1–78. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 47, noted that this species may be composite. Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 60-61, redescribed the holotype and noted that none of the material previously referred to this taxon from Bolivia was conspecific with the holotype, but nevertheless (p. 69) predicted the eventual discovery of this taxon in Bolivia. Padial, Bielskis, and Castroviejo, 2000, Bol. Asoc. Herpetol. Esp., 11: 61, reported "Eleutherodactylus cf. peruvianus" for Bolivia and suggested that it probably represents a new species. Duellman, 2005, Cusco Amazonico: 270–271, provided an account (adult morphology, description of the call, life history). Bernarde, Machado, and Turci, 2011, Biota Neotrop., 11: 117–144, reported specimens from Reserva Extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade, Acre, Brazil. In the Pristimantis peruvianus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 126, but transferred to the Pristmantis conspicillatus species group of and Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 125. França and Venâncio, 2010, Biotemas, 23: 71–84, provided a record for the municipality of Boca do Acre, Amazonas, with a brief discussion of the range. See Duellman and Lehr, 2009, Terrest.-breeding Frogs in Peru: 211–212, for brief account. Reported from the municipality of Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia, by Lynch, 2005, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 29: 584. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. Crnobrna, Santa-Cruz Farfan, Gallegos, López-Rojas, Llanqui, Panduro Pisco, and Kelsen Arbaiza, 2023, Check List, 19: 449, discussed problems of identification in Ucayali Department, central-eastern Peru.

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