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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.
* = "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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Atelopus longirostris Cope, 1868

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Atelopus > Species: Atelopus longirostris

Atelopus longirostris Cope, 1868, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 20: 116. Type(s): Not stated, although likely originally in ANSP or USNM; apparently lost as not located in ANSP or USNM according to Peters, 1973, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 145: 27. Type locality: "Valley of Quito", Ecuador; probably in error according to Peters, 1973, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 145: 28.

Antelopus longirostris — Orton, 1876, Andes and the Amazons: 108. Incorrect subsequent spelling of the generic name.

Phryniscus longirostris — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 153.

Phryniscus boussingaulti Thominot, 1889, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 8, 1: 28. Holotype: MNHNP 207, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 32. Type locality: "entre Latacungua et Guayaquil, au sud de Quito"; considered to be "Equateur" by Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 32. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1890, Zool. Rec., 26: 21; Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 32.

Atelopus longirostris — Boulenger, 1894, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 14: 374–375.

Atelopus longirostris marmorata Werner, 1901, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 51: 600. Types: NHMW, lost according to Peters, 1973, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 145: 43. Type locality: "Ecuador". Considered a nomen dubium by Peters, 1973, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 145: 43.

Atelopus longirostris marmoratus — Rivero, 1963, Caribb. J. Sci., 3: 108.

Common Names

Longnose Stubfoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 39).

Scrawny Stubfoot-toad (Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 32).

Longnose Harlequin Frog (Freile, Coloma, Terán-Valdez, Acosta-López, Tapia, and Pazmiño-Otamendi, 2020, Anfibios de Junín: 25).

Distribution

Cloud forests of northwestern lower slopes of the Andes of Ecuador (200 to 2500 m elevation) and Chocoan lowlands, in the provinces of Cotopaxi, Esmeraldas, Imbabura, Pichincha, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, and Carchi. See comment regarding the Valle de Cauca, Colombia, record.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Likely/Controversially Present: Colombia

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

In the Atelopus flavescens group of Lynch, 1993, Alytes, 11: 77–87. See Cannatella, 1981, J. Herpetol., 15: 135–137, for discussion, and Peters, 1973, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 145: 27–30, for discussion and accounts. Lötters, 1996, Neotrop. Toad Genus Atelopus: 34, discussed controversy over identity of frogs from Colombia (Departamento Valle and Departamento Santander) assigned to this species by other authors. Ruiz-Carranza, Ardila-Robayo, and Lynch, 1996, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 20: 366, regarded the Santander record to be based on misidentification but accepted the Valle de Cauca, Colombia, record. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 136, who regarded the species as extinct. Galvis-Peñuela and Cisneros-Heredia, 2005, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Ranas Arlequines: 53, provided a brief account, opined that the Colombia population might represent a distinct species, and also judged the species extinct in Ecuador. Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 32–33, provided an account for Ecuador and rejected that the species occurs in the Departamento de Valle del Cauca, Colombia, although it seems that the controversy has not been addressed except by repetition. Tapia, Coloma, Pazmiño-Otamendi, and Peñafiel, 2017, Neotropical Biodiversity, 3: 157–167, reported on rediscovery of this nearly extinct frog in Imbabura, Ecuador, and provided natural history observations. See Freile, Coloma, Terán-Valdez, Acosta-López, Tapia, and Pazmiño-Otamendi, 2020, Anfibios de Junín: 24–25, for brief account (identification, tadpole morphology, habitat, range) and photograph.

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