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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
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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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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Incilius mccoyi Santos-Barrera and Flores-Villela, 2011

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Incilius > Species: Incilius mccoyi

Incilius mccoyi Santos-Barrera and Flores-Villela, 2011, J. Herpetol., 45: 211. Holotype: MZFC 9935, by original designation. Type locality: "42.5 km S of Creel, on the Creel-Huachochi road Chihuahua, Mexico. . . . . located at 27° 38′ 35″ N, 107° 48′ 21″ W, in pine-oak forest, 1,400-m elevation".

Common Names

McCoy's Pine Toad (Rorabaugh and Lemos-Espinal, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Sonora: 141).

Distribution

Pine and pine-oak woodlands of western Chihuahua and adjacent eastern Sonora (south from the Sierra El Tigre), montane Sinaloa in the vicinity of Badiraguato, and southeast to south-central Durango, Mexico, 900 to 2670 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

Confused with Incilius occidentalis prior to its naming according to the original publication, where comparative external morphology comprised the evidence; however the sampling density of nearby Incilius occidentalis was low and this has resulted in published concerns for the status of this taxon (see Castro-Bastidas, Velarde-Garcéz, Jacobo-González, and Serrano-Serrano, 2024, Sonoran Herpetol., 37: 43–44, for discussion of the discordant variation in the Sierra Surutato region of Sinaloa, Mexico, and possibility that more species in the complex may exist). See comment under Incilius occidentalis. Mendelson, Mulcahy, Williams, and Sites, 2011, Zootaxa, 3138: 1–34, suggested that Incilius mccoyi is a members in an unnamed monophyletic group (the name Incilius alvarius group is available-DRF) that includes Incilius alvarius, Incilius occidentalis, Incilius mccoyi, and Incilius tacanensis. Lemos-Espinal, 2007, Anf. Rept. Chihuahua Mexico: 39–40, provided an account (as Bufo occidentalis) for Chihuahua, Mexico. Streicher, Reyes-Velasco, Cox, Campbell, and Flores-Villela, 2014, Herpetol. Notes, 7: 207–210, reported a number of records from montane Durango, Mexico. Rorabaugh and Lemos-Espinal, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Sonora: 141–143, provided a detailed account of natural history, morphology, and conservation status in Sonora, Mexico and regarded all earlier records of Incilius occidentalis to be referrable to Incilius mccoyi. Lemos-Espinal, Smith, and Valdes-Lares, 2019, Amph. Rept. Durango: 54–55, provided a brief account for Durango, Mexico. Castro-Bastidas, 2022, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 5: 15–19, provided a record from the municipality of Badiraguato, northeastern Sinaloa, Mexico, and a dot map of the species.

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