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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 porteri (Mendelson, Williams, Sheil, and Mulcahy, 2005)

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

Bufo porteri Mendelson, Williams, Sheil, and Mulcahy, 2005, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 38: 17. Holotype: KU 97519, by original designation. Type locality: "6 mi [9.6 km] NE Escuela Panamericana, Cerro Uyuca, 5200 ft [1584 m], Francisco Morazán, Honduras".

Cranopsis porteri — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 364.

Ollotis porteri — Frost, Grant, and Mendelson, 2006, Copeia, 2006: 558, by implication.

Incilius porteri — Frost, Mendelson, and Pramuk, 2009, Copeia, 2009: 418–419, by implication.

Common Names

Highland Forest Little Toad (Salazar-Saavedra, 2025, Rev. Nicaraguense Biodiversidad, 114: 16).

Sapo Chiquito de Montaña (Spanish: Salazar-Saavedra, 2025, Rev. Nicaraguense Biodiversidad, 114: 16).

Distribution

Lower montane tropical forest habitats in the Montañas de Comayagua region (Departments of Comayagua, Francisco Morazán, and La Paz), Honduras, 1584 to 2100 m elevation, south through the region of Puesto de Frontera Las Manos, on the Honduras border of Nicaragua, south to central and northwest-central Nicaragua.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Honduras, Nicaragua

Likely/Controversially Present: Guatemala

Comment

In the Incilius coccifer complex and confused with Incilius ibarrai and Incilius coccifer (all as Bufo) prior to its description, according to the original publication. Mendelson, Mulcahy, Williams, and Sites, 2011, Zootaxa, 3138: 1-34, suggested that this species is a member of a monophyletic Incilius coccifer group that includes Incilius coccifer, Incilius cycladen, Incilius ibarrai, Incilius pisinnus, Incilius porteri, and Incilius signifer. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 104–115, compared this species to others in Central America and provided a range map and photograph. Firneno and Townsend, 2019, Zool. Scripta, 48: 454–465, reported on genetics, range, and relationship to Incilius ibarrai and Incilius coccifer. Firneno, O'Neill, Portik, Emery, Townsend, and Fujita, 2020, Mol. Ecol., 29: 3543–3559, discussed incomplete lineage sorting and mtDNA/nuDNA discordance in the Incilius coccifer complex (Incilius coccifer, Incilius porteri, and Incilius ibarrai). See also Streicher and Day, 2020, Mol. Ecol., 29: 3400–3402, who commented on that paper and the issues it raised. Salazar-Saavedra, 2025, Rev. Nicaraguense Biodiversidad, 114: 57–62, detailed and mapped localities in Nicaragua.

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