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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
	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
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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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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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Atelopus planispina Jiménez de la Espada, 1875

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

Atelopus planispina Jiménez de la Espada, 1875, Vert. Viaje Pacif. Verif. 1862–1865: 148. Syntypes: MNCN 1390–1417 (28 specimens) according to González-Fernández, 2006, Graellsia, 62: 124, there is ambiguity surrounding the name, San José de Moti, which could now correspond to San José de Suno (also called San José Viejo) or to San José de Mote (also known as San José Nuevo).; given by González-Fernández, García-Díez, and San Segundo, 2009, Spixiana, München, 32: 268, as MNCN 1390 (Pie del Volcán Sumaco), 1391–1417 (San José de Moti, and Pie del Volcán Sumaco) . Type locality: "S[an]. José de Moti", Ecuador; corrected to San José Nuevo, Mount Sumaco, Napo Province, Ecuador, by Peters, 1973, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 145: 40. According to González-Fernández, 2006, Graellsia, 62: 124, there is ambiguity surrounding the name, San José de Moti, which could now correspond to San José de Suno (also called San José Viejo) or to San José de Mote (also known as San José Nuevo). Given as "Pie del Volcán Sumaco (= Base of Sumaco volcano), San Jose del Moti, region oriental del Ecuador" and "San José de Moti" by González-Fernández, García-Díez, and San Segundo, 2009, Spixiana, München, 32: 268.

Atelopus planispinus — Rivero, 1963, Caribb. J. Sci., 3: 107. Unjustified treatment of noun in apposition (planispina) as an adjective.

Common Names

Flat-spined Harlequin Frog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxx).

Rana Arlequín de Dorso Plano (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxx).

Flat-spined Atelopus (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 87).

Napo Stubfoot Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 40).

Distribution

Eastern foothills of the Ecuadorian Andes, from Volcán Reventador (Napo Province) in the north, and south, possibly disjunctly to Cordillera de Cuticú (Morona-Santiago Province) 1000–2000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

In the Atelopus flavescens group of Lynch, 1993, Alytes, 11: 77–87. For discussion see Rivero, 1969, Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 29: 142–145. For additional localities see Duellman and Lynch, 1988, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 140: 125–142. See account by Peters, 1973, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 145: 39. See comment under Atelopus palmatus. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 173. Lynch, 2005, in Rueda-Almonacid et al. (eds.), Ranas Arlequines: 103, provided a brief account, photograph, and map.

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