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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.
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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 marinkellei Cochran and Goin, 1970

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

Atelopus ebenoides marinkellei Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 123. Holotype: USNM 150644, by original designation. Type locality: "Páramo Vijagual, [Department of] Boyacá, Colombia".

Atelopus ebenoides marinkellei — Lynch, 1993, Alytes, 11: 84, Lötters, 1996, Neotrop. Toad Genus Atelopus: 24; Ruiz-Carranza, Ardila-Robayo, and Lynch, 1996, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 20: 366; Acosta-Galvis, 2001 "2000", Biota Colomb., 1: 293; Rueda-Almonacid, Lynch, and Amézquita, 2004, Libro Rojo Anf. Colombia: 112, Acosta-Galvis, Rueda-Almonacid, Velásquez-Álvarez, Sánchez-Pacheco, and Peña-Prieto, 2006, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 30: 282; Galvis-Cordoba and Carvajalino-Fernández, 2025, Check List, 21: 852

Atelopus marinkellei — Rivero and Granados-Díaz, 1993, Caribb. J. Sci., 29: 17; Rueda-Almonacid and Rueda-Martínez, 2005, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Ranas Arlequines: 71; Plewnia, Dias, Anganoy-Criollo, Venegas-Valencia, Szepanski, Heine, Böning, Ramírez, and Lötters, 2025, Phyllomedusa, 24: 223.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Cordillera Oriental in the páramos of Vijagual, Psiba, Siscunsí, and Toquilla, east-central Department of Boyacá, Colombia, 2500–3700 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia

Endemic: Colombia

Comment

Ruiz-Carranza, Ardila-Robayo, and Lynch, 1996, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 20: 366, suggested that there was no evidence that Atelopus ebenoides marinkellei is a suspecies of Atelopus ebenoides but took no taxonomic action. Ardila-Robayo, Osorno-Muñoz, and Maldonado-Silva, 2004, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Libro Rojo Anf. Colombiaezembed: 112–114, provided an account for Atelopus ebenoides marinkellei and suggested that it might be a distinct species from Atelopus ebenoides. Rueda-Almonacid and Rueda-Martínez, 2005, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Ranas Arlequines: 71, formalized the suggestion. Galvis-Cordoba and Carvajalino-Fernández, 2025, Check List, 21: 852–856, reported the rediscovery of the species from the Páramo de Siscunsí, a regional natural park within the Tota-Bijagual páramo complex. The specific site is along a rural path that leads from the main road to Siscunsí Lagoon (05°38′50″N, 072°47′14″W) at an elevation of approximately 3500 m.

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