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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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Ceratophrys ornata (Bell, 1843)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ceratophryidae > Genus: Ceratophrys > Species: Ceratophrys ornata

Uperodon ornatum Bell, 1843, Zool. Voyage Beagle, Part 5: 50. Syntypes: Not designated; according to museum records, BMNH 1947.2.17.30–31 (formerly 45.5.25.12 and 76.8.27.1). Type locality: "Buenos Ayres", Argentina.

Trigonophrys rugiceps Hallowell, 1857 "1856", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 8: 298. Syntypes: Not designated; ANSP 2283–89, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 352. Type locality: "river Parana". Synonymy by Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 25.

Ceratophrys ornata — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 25.

Ceratophrys ensenadensis Rusconi, 1932 "1931", Semana Medica, 38: 2046. Nomen nudum.

Ceratophrys ensenadensis Rusconi, 1932, An. Soc. Cient. Argentina, 113: 146. Holotype: Originally in private collection of Federico Hennig (480), incomplete articulated skull; not located by Sanchíz, 1998, Handb. Palaeoherpetol., 4: 115. Type locality: "Olivos[, ] provincia de Buenos Aires", Argentina [Middle Pleistocene fossil]. Synonymy by Báez and Brandoni de Gasparini, 1977, Acta Geol. Lilloana, 14: 175.

Ceratophrys (Ceratophrys) ornata — Lynch, 1982, Syst. Zool., 31: 166–179.

English Names

Ornate Horned Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 78; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 71).

Bell's Ceratophrys (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 78).

Argentina Horned Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 78).

Distribution

Pampean region of Argentina (Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Entre Ríos, La Pampa, Mendoza, and Santa Fe provinces), Uruguay (coastal regions of departments of Rocha and San José), and coastal region of southern Río Grande do Sul, Brazil, 0–500 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay

Comment

See comment under Ceratophrys cranwelli. See Klappenbach and Langone, 1992, An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, Ser. 2, 8: 177–178, for complete synonymy. See account by Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 230–232. Achaval and Olmos, 2003, Anf. Rept. Uruguay, ed. 2: 19, provided for the Uruguayan population a brief account and photograph. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 23, suggested that reports of this species for Paraguay are based on specimens of Ceratophrys cranwelli. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 618. Faivovich, Nicoli, Blotto, Pereyra, Baldo, Barrionuevo, Fabrezi, Wild, and Haddad, 2014, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 9: 207–227, suggested that this species is the sister taxon of Ceratophrys cranwelli. Salas, Zavattieri, di Tada, Martino, and Bridarolli, 1998, Cuad. Herpetol., 12: 37–48, discussed the call. See account by Maneyro, Langone, and Carreira, 2019, in Maneyro, Langone, and Carreira (eds.), Libro Rojo Anf. Rept. Uruguay: 81–86, for Uruguay.

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