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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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Centrolene lynchi (Duellman, 1980)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Centrolenidae > Subfamily: Centroleninae > Genus: Centrolene > Species: Centrolene lynchi

Centrolenella lynchi Duellman, 1980, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 83: 29. Holotype: KU 164691, by original designation. Type locality: "a stream 4 km northeast (by road) of Dos Ríos, Provincia Pichincha, Ecuador, 1140 m (00° 21′ S, 78° 54′ W)".

Centrolenella gemmata Flores, 1985, J. Herpetol., 19: 313. Holotype: MCZ 104073, by original designation. Type locality: "San Francisco de las Pampas, 1500 m in elevation, Provincia Cotopaxi, Ecuador (00° 25′ S, 78° 57′ W, just NW of junction of Rio Las Juritas and Rio Toachi)". Synonymy by Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 50.

Centrolenella scirtetes Duellman and Burrowes, 1989, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 132: 6. Holotype: KU 202720, by original designation. Type locality: "1.4 km (by road) southwest of Tandayapa (00° 07′ S, 78° 40′ W), 1820 m, Provincia de Pichincha, Ecuador". Synonymy by Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 50.

Centrolene scirtetes — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 20.

Centrolene gemmatum — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 19.

Centrolene lynchi — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 20.

Centrolene gemmata — Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 19.

Common Names

Lynch's Giant Glass Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).

Lynch's Glassfrog (Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 42).

Pampas Giant Glass Frog (Centrolene gemmata [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).

Tandayapa Giant Glass Frog (Centrolene scirtetes [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 46).

Distribution

Elevations of 1520–1858 m on the Pacific slopes of the western Andes in Colombia and Ecuador; in Colombia, the species has been reported in only one locality (Reserva La Planada, 7 km route of Chucunés, 1780 m, Departamento de Nariño); in Ecuador from seven localities (provinces of Cotopaxi, Pichincha, and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

See comment under Centrolenella grandisonae. In the Centrolene peristictum group according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1–30. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 54, discussed the species in Ecuador and provided access to the relevant literature. See comments under Centrolene peristictum, Centrolene scirtetes, and Centrolene gemmatum. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 210. Dautel, Salgado Maldonado, Abuza, Imba, Griffin, and Guayasamin, 2011, Phyllomedusa, 10: 31–43, reported on advertisement and combat calls. Catenazzi, von May, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Lehr, and Guayasamin, 2012, Zootaxa, 3388: 64, confirmed the placement of this species in Centrolene. Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 42–43, provided an account and map for Ecuador and noted the possibility that Centrolene scirtetes might be conspecific. Cisneros-Heredia and Yánez-Muñoz, 2007, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 2: 6, and Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 52, suggested that Centrolene gemmatum is conspecific with Centrolene lynchi but did not make the formal change pending publication on this topic elsewhere. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status for nominal Centrolene gemmata in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 209. Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 50–55, provided a detailed account, including adult morphology, advertisement call, relationships, natural history, and conservation status.

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