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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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Chimerella mariaelenae (Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2006)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Centrolenidae > Subfamily: Centroleninae > Genus: Chimerella > Species: Chimerella mariaelenae

Centrolene mariaelenae Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2006, Zootaxa, 1244: 4. Holotype: DFCH-USFQ C125, by original designation. Type locality: "along a stream, tributary of the Jambue River, ca. 16 km S from Zamora, Podocarpus National Park (ca. 04° 15′ S, 78° 56′ W, 1820 m), on the western slope of Contrafuerte de Tzunantza, Cordilla Oriental, eastern slopes of the Andes, Provincia de Zamora-Chinchipe, Republic of Ecuador".

Chimerella mariaelenae — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 31.

Common Names

María Elena's Glassfrog (Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 73).

Distribution

Amazonian Andean slopes, 813-1820 m elevation, in the provinces of Napo, Morona Santiago, Orellana, Tungurahua, and Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador, on to the Kampankis Mountains between the Santiago and Morona rivers of northwestern Peru, and possibly into adjacent southern Colombia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador, Peru

Comment

In the Centrolene gorzulae group according to the original publication. Cisneros-Heredia and Guayasamin, 2007, Check List, 2(3): 93-95, a range extension and discussed the range. Cisneros-Heredia and Meza-Ramos, 2007, Zootaxa, 1485: 38, noted that the lack of apomorphies associating this species with Hyalinobatrachium did not imply that Cochranella is monophyletic and that further phylogenetic work should elucidate relationships and provide for a corresponding monophyletic taxonomy. Kok and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2008, Zootaxa, 1680: 27, transferred this species to the Centrolene gorzulae species group. Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 31, transferred the species to Chimerella. Cisneros-Heredia, 2009, Check List, 5: 912-916, reported on an additional specimen and suggested that this species may be found in southern Colombia. Terán-Valdez and Guayasamin, 2014, CienciAmérica, Quito, 3: 17–22, reported on larval morphology. Catenazzi and Venegas, 2012, in Pitman et al. (eds.), Rapid Biol. Social Invent. Rep. 24: 260, reported the species in Peru. Batallas-Revelo and Brito-M., 2016, Rev. Mexicana Biodiversidad, 87: 1292–1300, reported on vocalizations from Sangay National Park, southeastern Ecuador. Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 73–77, provided a detailed account, including adult and larval morphology, advertisement call, relationships, natural history, and conservation status.

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