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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 taeniatus (Boulenger, 1912)

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

Hylodes taeniatus Boulenger, 1912, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 10: 188. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.16.99 (formerly 1909.10.30.41) according to J.D. Lynch in Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 323. Type locality: "Noananoa [= Noanama], Rio San Juan, Choco, S.W. Colombia".

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) taeniatus — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154; Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233.

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

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

Common Names

Banded Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79).

Distribution

Eastern Costa Rica (Provincia de Puntarenas) to central Panama to the Chocó and Caldas of northwestern Colombia, 80 to 2500 m elevation. See comment.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama

Comment

See account and redescription provided by Lynch, 1980, Herpetologica, 36: 175–189. See comments under Eleutherodactylus calcarulatus and Eleutherodactylus ockendeni. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 138, note that Ecuadorian records of this species are based on specimens of Eleutherodactylus ockendeni and mistaken locality data. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. See also Lynch and Ardila-Robayo, 1999, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 615-624. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 227, placed this species in his Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus cruentus group. In the Pristimantis (Pristimantis) frater species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 121. Not assignable to a species group according to Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 128. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 140–191, provided a key to the genera and species of Brachycephaloidea (= Craugastoridae + Eleutherodactylidae) in Central America and provided maps and photographs of the species. Palacio Baena, Muñoz Escobar, Gallo Delgado, and Rivera-Correa, 2006, Anfibios y Reptiles del Valle de Aburrá: 45–47, provided a brief account and photograph. See brief comments on range, natural history, and possible cryptic species in Panama by Batista, Hertz, Ponce, and Lotzkat, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 219–229. Arias, Barrio-Amorós, García-Rodríguez, and Chaves, 2023, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 5: 1–9, reported specimens from eastern-most Costa Rica (Provincia Puntarenas, Cantons of Coto Brus and Buenos Aireas), described the advertisement call, molecular markers, comparative morphology, and range and noted that molecular evidence suggests that Magdalena Valley of Colombia of Pristimantis taeniatus should be reassigned to Pristimantis yukba. Falcón-Espitia, Ríos-Orjuela, Martínez-Botero, Arias-Escobar, and Plazas-Cardona, 2023, Phyllomedusa, 22: 57–61, discussed vocalizations and implied that this taxon requires further systematic work. Londoño-Quiceno and Gutiérrez-Cárdenas, 2023, Zootaxa, 5319: 443–450, reported on the advertisement call from a population in the Magdalena River valley of Colombia at the Municipality of Norcasia, Caldas, Colombia, 758 m elevation. Included in the Pristimantis unistrigatus clade of the Pristimantis unistrigatus group as delimited by Mônico, Koch, Ferrão, Fernandes, Marques, Chaparro, Rodrigues, Lima, and Fouquet, 2024, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 108203: 1–19, on molecular grounds (mtDNA and nuDNA genes).

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