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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 viridissimum (Taylor, 1942)

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

Centrolenella viridissima Taylor, 1942, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 28: 74. Holotype: EHT-HMS 27725, by original designation; now FMNH 100093 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 45. Type locality: "Agua de Obispo, Guerrero", Mexico.

Hyalinobatrachium viridissimum — Mendoza-Henao, Arias, Townsend, and Parra-Olea, 2020, Syst. Biodiversity, 18: 464.

English Names

Northern Glassfrog (Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 71).

Distribution

Cloud forests on the Pacific slopes of Guerrero, Mexico to southern Guatemala and on the Atlantic slope from central Veracruz, Tabasco, and Chiapas, Mexico to central Guatemala and Belize to northern Honduras; possibly (identification not clear) from Santa Ana and Cabañas Departments, El Salvador.

Comment

The boundary between this species and Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni is currently unclear, particularly in El Salvador. For accounts (as Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni) see Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 115-117; Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 71-72; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 118-120; McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 221-224. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 38, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras (as Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni). Köhler, Veselý, and Greenbaum, 2005 "2006", Amph. Rept. El Salvador: 34-35, provided an account (for El Salvador) and a color photograph. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 121–125, compared the species of Central America and provided an identification key (which would include this species, then undelimited, as Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni), maps, and photographs. Removed from the synonymy of Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni by Mendoza-Henao, Arias, Townsend, and Parra-Olea, 2020, Syst. Biodiversity, 18: 464, where it had been placed by Starrett and Savage, 1973, Bull. S. California Acad. Sci., 72: 63, on the basis of DNA, calls, and morphology. Díaz-García, Ramos-Luna, Garcia, Téllez-Ramos4, and Silva Hernández, 2021, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 4: 203–204, provided a record from the Municipio de Rafael Delgado, Veracruz, Mexico, and discussed the northern limit of the range.

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