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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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Strabomantis biporcatus Peters, 1863

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Strabomantinae > Genus: Strabomantis > Species: Strabomantis biporcatus

Strabomantis biporcatus Peters, 1863, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 405. Syntypes: ZMB 3322 (juvenile) and 3330 (3 specimens), according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 47. ZMB 3330B designated lectotype by Savage and Myers, 2002, Am. Mus. Novit., 3357: 21. Type locality: "Veragua", Panama.

Hylodes maussi Boettger, 1893, Ber. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 1893: 39. Syntypes: SMF (2 specimens), according to the original paper. SMF 3821 (formerly 1220.3a) regarded as holotype by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 39; Lynch, 1975, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 38: 42, regarded MCZ 10178 as a syntype. Savage and Myers, 2002, Am. Mus. Novit., 3357: 21, formalized Mertens' consideration of a single type by designating SMF 3821 as lectotype. Type locality: "Puerto Cabello, [Estado Carabobo,] in Venezuela", considered by La Marca, 1992, Cuad. Geograf., Mérida, 9: 39, as being from near sea level. Synonymy by Savage and Myers, 2002, Am. Mus. Novit., 3357: 14.

Eleutherodactylus maussi — Stejneger, 1904, Annu. Rep. U.S. Natl. Mus. for 1902: 582-583, by implication; Ginés, 1959, Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 19: 112; Lynch, 1975, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 38: 1-46.

Eleutherodactylus biporcatus — Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 410.

Eleutherodactylus cornutus maussi — Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 54.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) maussi — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317, by implication; Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) biporcatus — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154.

Craugastor biporcatus — Crawford and Smith, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 35: 551, by implication; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 360.

Strabomantis biporcatus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 131.

Common Names

Puerto Cabello Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 77 [as Eleutherodactylus maussi]).

Distribution

Northern Venezuela (states of Aragua, Carabobo, Miranda, Sucre, and Yaracuy) in a few premontane localities in the Cordillera de la Costa and the Serranía del Interior, 250-1600 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) biporcatus group of Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 228. See account by Lynch, 1975, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 38: 1-46 (as Eleutherodactylus maussi). Savage and Myers, 2002, Am. Mus. Novit., 3357: 14 (account on page 21-24), noted that the name Strabomantis biporcatus had previously been assigned incorrectly to the species now named Eleutherodactylus gulosus, and assigned to the species formerly referred to as Eleutherodactylus maussi. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 227, included this species in his Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri series, Eleutherodactylus biporcatus group. In the Strabomantis biporcatus species series, Strabomantis biporcatus species group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 131, and Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123. Barrio-Amorós and Kaiser, 2008, Salamandra, 44: 248-254, detailed the geographic range of the species in Venezuela. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 130–131, for comments on range and literature.

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