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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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Sachatamia ilex (Savage, 1967)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Centrolenidae > Subfamily: Centroleninae > Genus: Sachatamia > Species: Sachatamia ilex

Centrolenella ilex Savage, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 326. Holotype: LACM 25205, by original designation. Type locality: "Costa Rica: Provincia de Limón: Canton de Limón: Alta Talamanca: 16 km SW Amubri, on Río Lari, 300 m."; corrected to "14 km SW Amubri, Río Lari, Cantón de Talamanca, Provincia de Limon, 300 m" by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 76.

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

Sachatamia ilex — Guayasamin, Castroviejo-Fisher, Trueb, Ayarzagüena, Rada, and Vilà, 2009, Zootaxa, 2100: 36.

Common Names

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

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

Distribution

Caribbean slopes of eastern Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, to western Colombia, and the Chocoan forest of western Ecuador (Esmeraldas and Pichincha provinces), 150–800 m elevation; Pacific drainage of central Costa Rica in the caldera of the Río Grande de Tárcoles.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panama

Comment

The Colombian population may represent a distinct species according to C.W. Myers In Duellman and Burrowes, 1989, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 132: 1-14. In the Centrolene prosoblepon group, according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1–30. See account (as Centrolenella ilex) by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 360–361. Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, Yánez-Muñoz, and Bustamante, 2006, Check List, 2(1): 70-75, discussed the range and provided Ecuadorian localities. Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 53–54, discussed the species in Ecuador and provided access to the relevant literature. Kubicki, 2007, Glass Frogs Costa Rica: 84–97, provided an account and detailed range map for Costa Rica (as Centrolenella ilex). See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189–202, regarding Nicaraguan populations. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 117–127, compared the centrolenid species of Central America and provided an identification key, maps, and photographs. Guayasamin, Cisneros-Heredia, McDiarmid, Peña, and Hutter, 2020, Diversity, 12 (222): 222–226, provided a detailed account, including adult and larval morphology, advertisement call, relationships, natural history, and conservation status.

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