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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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Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum (Taylor, 1949)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Centrolenidae > Subfamily: Hyalinobatrachinae > Genus: Hyalinobatrachium > Species: Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum

Centrolenella colymbiphyllum Taylor, 1949, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 262. Holotype: KU 23812, by original designation. Type locality: "American Cinchona Plantation, elev. 5,600 ft., Caribbean drainage of Volcán Poas, [Cantón de Alajuela, Provincia de Alajuela,] Costa Rica". Type locality commented on by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 80.

Cochranella colymbiphyllum — Taylor, 1951, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 64: 34.

Centrolenella colymbiphyllum — Savage, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 325–331.

Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum — Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 24.

Hyalinobatrachium crybetes McCranie and Wilson, 1997, J. Herpetol., 31: 13. Holotype: LSUMZ 21319, by original designation. Type locality: "0.5 km WNW Catacamas (14° 51′ N, 85° 54′ W), Departamento de Olancho, Honduras, elevation 500 m". Synonymy by Cisneros-Heredia and McDiarmid, 2007, Zootaxa, 1572: 1–82.

Common Names

Cricket Glass Frog (Salazar-Saavedra, 2025, Rev. Nicaraguense Biodiversidad, 114: 17).

Plantation Glass Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 47).

Rana de Vidrio Grillo (Spanish: Salazar-Saavedra, 2025, Rev. Nicaraguense Biodiversidad, 114: 17).

Distribution

Atlantic versant near Catamacas, Departamento de Olancho, Honduras; eastern Nicaragua; Central and southeastern Costa Rica through Panama to the western slope of the Cordillera Occidental in Colombia, south to Valle del Cauca, 850–1800 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

In the Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni group, according to Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1991, Lozania, 57: 1-30. Panama record by Jaramillo A., Jaramillo, and Ibáñez D., 1988, Herpetol. Rev., 19: 59. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 370-371. See account as Hyalinobatrachium crybetes by McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 219-221. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 38, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras (as Hyalinobatrachium crybetes). See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status of nominal Hyalinobatrachium crybetes in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 218. Kubicki, 2007, Glass Frogs Costa Rica: 182-199, provided an account and detailed range map for Costa Rica. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 121–125, compared the species of Central America and provided an identification key, maps, and photographs. McCranie, Sunyer, and Martínez-Fonseca, 2019, Rev. Nicaraguense Biodiversidad, 52: 26, suggested the species would be found in northeastern Nicaragua. Díaz-Ricaurte and Guevara-Molina, 2022, Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ., 57: 51–65, reidentified records (by Barrera-Rodriguez, 2000 "1999", Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 245–260) from Frontino and Urrao municipalities, Antioquia, Colombia, as Hyalinobatrachium cf. talamancae. Ramos Galdámez and Salazar-Saavedra, 2025, Rev. Nicaraguense Biodiversidad, 123: 1–23, provided three localites in eastern Nicaragua and provided the advertisement call, a description, and a dot map.

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