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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
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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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Dendrophryniscus brevipollicatus Jiménez de la Espada, 1870

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Dendrophryniscus > Species: Dendrophryniscus brevipollicatus

Dendrophryniscus brevipollicatus Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, 3: 65. Type(s): Not stated; presumably in MNCN. Neotype designated by Cruz, Caramaschi, Fusinatto, and Brasileiro, 2019, Zootaxa, 4648: 32, as MNRJ 91627. Type locality: "in Brasil; prope Rio de Janeiro, in Monte Corcovado"; given as "Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 34. Neotype from "Açude da Solidão (22°57’S, 43°17’W, Datum WGS 84; 410 m above sea level), Parque Nacional da Tijuca, Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro", Brazil.

Dendrophryniscus brevipollicatus lutzi Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 138. Syntypes: MNRJ, not located by Miranda-Ribeiro, 1955, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 42: 408. Type locality: "Corcovado", city of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Dendrophryniscus brevipollicatus brevipollicatus — Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 138, by implication.

Dendrophryniscus brevipollicatus travassoi A. Miranda-Ribeiro in Miranda-Ribeiro, 1955, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 42: 409. Nomen nudum associated with label on one of the syntypes of Dendrophryniscus brevipollicatus lauroi.

English Names

Coastal Tree Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 44).

Distribution

Forested areas below 500 m elevation in the state of Rio de Janeiro (municipalities of Cachoeiras de Macacu, Engenheiro Paulo de Frontin, Magé, Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, and Silva Jardim), Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

See revision by Cruz, Caramaschi, Fusinatto, and Brasileiro, 2019, Zootaxa, 4648: 27–62, who redelimited the species; all literature prior to this should be used with caution as it may apply to the derivative species Dendrophryniscus izecksohni, Dendrophryniscus haddadi, Dendrophryniscus jureia, or Dendrophryniscus davori. See comment under Dendrophryniscus leucomystax. For discussion of distribution see Braun and Braun, 1979, Iheringia, Zool., 54: 47-54. See accounts by Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 10-12, and Izecksohn, 1994 "1993", Rev. Brasil. Zool., 10: 473-488. Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 31, provided a brief account and photo. Izecksohn, 1971, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 54: 129-136, reported on color pattern variation. Cruz and Fusinatto, 2008, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 3: 25, commented on the range.

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