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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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Melanophryniscus klappenbachi Prigioni and Langone, 2000

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Bufonidae > Genus: Melanophryniscus > Species: Melanophryniscus klappenbachi

Melanophryniscus klappenbachi Prigioni and Langone, 2000, Comun. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, 12: 2. Holotype: MNHM 1496, by original designation. Type locality: "Arroyo Palometa, Ruta Nacional No. 1, Provincia del Chaco, República Argentina"; corrected to "Arroyo Palometa, Ruta Nacional No. 11 (27° 43′ 02.2″ S, 59° 13′ 57.9″ W, 65 msnm), Dto. San Fernando, Provincia del Chaco, República Argentina" by Baldo, 2001, Cuad. Herpetol., 15: 141.

Common Names

Klappenbach's Red-bellied Frog (Amaral, Landgref, Souza, and Uetanabaro, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 97).

Distribution

Known from the provinces of Chaco, Formosa, and northern Santa Fe and Santiago del Estero in Argentina, the departments of Alto Paraguay, Ñeembucú, and Presidente Hayes in Paraguay; likely in adjacent Bolivia; Municipality of Porto Murtinho, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay

Likely/Controversially Present: Bolivia

Comment

In the Melanophryniscus stelzneri group according to the original publication and Cruz and Caramaschi, 2003, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 500: 1-11. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 20, briefly discussed the range in Paraguay. Céspedez and Motte, 2007, FACENA, 23: 31-42, mapped the distribution in Paraguay. Amaral, Landgref, Souza, and Uetanabaro, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 98, provided a record for Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, and commented on the range. Weiler, Núñez, Airaldi, Lavilla, Peris, and Baldo, 2013, Anf. Paraguay: 35, provided a brief account, image, and dot map for Paraguay. Kurth, Hörnes, Esser, and Rödder, 2013, Zootaxa, 3626:597-600, reported on the acoustic repertoire. Baldo, Vera Candioti, Haad, Kolenc, Borteiro, Pereyra, Zank, Colombo, Bornschein, Sisa, Brusquetti, Conte, Nogueira-Costa, Almeida-Santos, and Pie, 2014, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 112: 417–441, reported on larval morphology. Zank, Becker, Abadie, Baldo, and Maneyro, 2014, PLoS One, E 9(4: e94625): 1–11, provided modeled distribution maps for the species under climate change. Duré, Gonzáles, and Gómez, 2024, Zootaxa, 5397: 598–600, reported on the advertisement call from the Department of Primero de Mayo, in the Province of Chaco (27°6’5.41”S, 59°2’31.86”W), Argentina. Langone and Lavilla, 2024, Comun. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, 13: 18–19, provided the taxonomic literature including misidentifications.

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