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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.
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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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Calyptocephalella Strand, 1928

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Calyptocephalellidae > Genus: Calyptocephalella

1 species

Peltocephalus Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 81. Type species: Peltocephalus quoyi Tschudi, 1838, by monotypy. The name is ascribed by Tschudi in the original publication to Bibron, but presumably the diagnosis is Tschudi’s. Preoccupied by Peltocephalus Duméril and Bibron, 1835. Synonymy with Calyptocephalus by Guichenot, 1848, in Gay (ed.), Hist. Fis. Polit. Chile, Zool., 2: 107; Jiménez de la Espada, 1875, Vert. Viaje Pacif. Verif. 1862–1865: 2; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 180.

Calyptocephalus Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 447. Type species: Calyptocephalus gayi Duméril and Bibron, 1841, by monotypy. Primary junior homonym of Calyptocephalus Gray, 1832 (Coleoptera).

Cephalopeltis Jiménez de la Espada, 1875, Vert. Viaje Pacif. Verif. 1862–1865: 2. Replacement name for Calyptocephalus erroneously cited to Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 447. Nomen oblitum.

Calyptocephala Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 371. Replacement name for Calyptocephalus Duméril and Bibron, 1841. Primary junior homonym of Calytpocephala Dejean, 1834 (Coleoptera).

Calyptocephalella Strand, 1928, Arch. Naturgesch., Abt. A,, 92: 55. Replacement name for Calyptocephala Nieden, 1923.

Eophractus Schaeffer, 1949, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 93: 49. Type species: Eophractus casmayorensis Schaeffer, 1949. Fossil taxon. Synonymy by Lynch, 1971, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 53: 116.

Gigantobatrachus Casamiquela, 1958, Rev. Asoc. Geol. Argentina, 13: 174. Type species: Gigantobatrachus parodii Casimequela, 1959, by original designation. Fossil taxon. Synonymy by Lynch, 1971, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 53: 116.

English Names

Helmeted Water Toads (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 70).

Gay’s Frogs (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 77).

Chilean Toads (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 77).

Distribution

As for the single species.

Comment

Myers and Stothers, 2006, Arch. Nat. Hist., London, 33: 255-256, discussed the earlier nomenclatural discussions of Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 195-202, Donoso-Barros and Cei, 1962, Herpetologica, 18: 195-203, and Lynch, 1971, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 53: 1-238m and concluded that Caudiverbera Laurenti, 1768, Spec. Med. Exhib. Synops. Rept.: 43 (type species: Caudiverbera peruviana Laurenti, 1768 [= Lacerta caudiverbera Linnaeus, 1758], by subsequent designation of Stejneger, 1936, Copeia, 1936: 135) is based on a fictitious animal and therefore unavailable for scientific nomenclature. They recommended the use of the name Calyptocephalella gayi as the appropriate name for this species. See comment under Telmatobufo. Formas and Espinoza, 1975, Herpetologica, 31: 429-432, suggested karylogical evidence for a close relationship of Telmatobufo and Calyptocephalella (as Caudiverbera).

Contained taxa (1 sp.):

Calyptocephalella gayi (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)

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