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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
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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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Amazophrynella Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Amazophrynella

13 species

Amazonella Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 832. Type species: Atelopus minutus Melin, 1941, by original designation. Junior homonym of Amazonella Lundblad, 1921 (Acari).

Amazophrynella Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012, Zootaxa, 3244: 68. Replacement name for Amazonella Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Throughout Amazonia, at low to moderate altitudes in Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and French Guyana, and presumably in Suriname and Bolivia.

Comment

Fouquet, Recoder, Teixeira, Cassimiro, Amaro, Camacho, Damasceno, Carnaval, Moritz, and Rodrigues, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 62: 826-838, suggested that the genus is the sister taxon of Dendrophryniscus. Rojas-Zamora, Carvalho, Gordo, Ávila, and Farias, 2014, Zootaxa, 3753: 79-95, presented molecular evidence of unnamed species in western Amazonia and the Guiana Shield region. Portik and Papenfuss, 2015, BMC Evol. Biol., 15 (152): 5, suggested that Amazophrynella is distant from Dendrophryniscus and the sister taxon of the non-"atelopodine" bufonids. Rojas-Zamora, Chaparro, Carvalho, Ávila, Farias, Hrbek, and Gordo, 2016, ZooKeys, 563: 43–71, reported on molecular phylogenetics of the species in the genus, noting two unnamed species. Rojas-Zamora, Fouquet, Ron, Hernández-Ruz, Melo-Sampaio, Chaparro, Vogt, Carvalho, Pinheiro, Ávila, Farias, Gordo, and Hrbek, 2018, PeerJ, 6(e4941): 1–56, discussed the molecular phylogenetics within the genus and reviewed the morphology and acoustic variation within the genus, naming several species and noting a number of other candidate species. For identification of Amazophrynella sp. larvae (as Dendrophryniscus minutus) in central Amazonia, Brazil, see Hero, 1990, Amazoniana, 11: 201–262. Moraes, Werneck, Réjaud, Rodrigues, Prates, Glaw, Kok, Ron, Chaparro, Osorno-Muñoz, Vechio, Recoder, Marques-Souza, Rojas-Zamora, Demay, Hrbek, and Fouquet, 2022, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 136: 75–91, reported on the molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the species. and suggested that several more species remain to be named.

Contained taxa (13 sp.):

Amazophrynella amazonicola Rojas, Carvalho, Ávila, Farias, Gordo, and Hrbek, 2015

Amazophrynella bilinguis Kaefer, Rojas-Zamora, Ferrão, Farias, and Lima, 2019

Amazophrynella bokermanni (Izecksohn, 1994)

Amazophrynella gardai Mângia, Koroiva, and Santana, 2020

Amazophrynella javierbustamantei Rojas-Zamora, Chaparro, Carvalho, Ávila, Farias, Hrbek, and Gordo, 2016

Amazophrynella manaos Rojas, Carvalho, Ávila, Farias, and Hrbek, 2014

Amazophrynella matses Rojas, Carvalho, Ávila, Farias, Gordo, and Hrbek, 2015

Amazophrynella minuta (Melin, 1941)

Amazophrynella moisesii Rojas-Zamora, Fouquet, Ron, Hernández-Ruz, Melo-Sampaio, Chaparro, Vogt, Carvalho, Pinheiro, Ávila, Farias, Gordo, and Hrbek, 2018

Amazophrynella siona Rojas-Zamora, Fouquet, Ron, Hernández-Ruz, Melo-Sampaio, Chaparro, Vogt, Carvalho, Pinheiro, Ávila, Farias, Gordo, and Hrbek, 2018

Amazophrynella teko Rojas-Zamora, Fouquet, Ron, Hernández-Ruz, Melo-Sampaio, Chaparro, Vogt, Carvalho, Pinheiro, Ávila, Farias, Gordo, and Hrbek, 2018

Amazophrynella vote Ávila, Carvalho, Gordo, Kawashita-Ribeiro, and Morais, 2012

Amazophrynella xinguensis Rojas-Zamora, Fouquet, Ron, Hernández-Ruz, Melo-Sampaio, Chaparro, Vogt, Carvalho, Pinheiro, Ávila, Farias, Gordo, and Hrbek, 2018

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