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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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Cycloramphus brasiliensis (Steindachner, 1864)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Cycloramphidae > Genus: Cycloramphus > Species: Cycloramphus brasiliensis

Telmatobius brasiliensis Steindachner, 1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 282. Holotype: NHMW 22921, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 29, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 34. Type locality: "Brasilien (wahrscheinlich die Umgebung von Rio Janeiro)". Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 93, considered the type locality to be "provàvelmente arredores da cidade do rio de Janeiro", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Iliodiscus pinderi Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920, Rev. Mus. Paulista, São Paulo, 12: 269. Holotype: MZUSP 1008 (formerly 647), according to Heyer, 1983, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 30: 264. Type locality: "Ilha de S. Sebastião, S. Paulo", Brazil; corrected to Serra de Macaé, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Gorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 47. Synonymy by Heyer, 1983, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 30: 295.

Cycloramphus brasiliensis — Barbour and Noble, 1920, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 63: 407; Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920, Rev. Mus. Paulista, São Paulo, 12: 276; Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 69.

Grypiscus pinderi — Barbour, 1925, Copeia, 138: 8.

Iliodiscus brasiliensis — Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 46.

Cyclorhamphus pinderi — Lutz, 1929, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 22: 10.

Grypiscus lutzi Miranda-Ribeiro, 1935, Rev. Mus. Paulista, São Paulo, 19: 415. Types: not designated and considered lost by Caramaschi and Pombal, 2023, Zootaxa, 5339: 477, who designated as neotype MZUSP 1008 (the holotype of Iliodiscus pinderi). Type locality: “um lugar da Serra de Petropolis que pode ter cerca de 800 m de altura”; restricted to Serra de Macaé, Municipality of Nova Friburgo (22º18’S, 42º32’W; Datum WGS 84; 950 m a.s.l.), State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Synonymy by Caramaschi and Pombal, 2023, Zootaxa, 5339: 477.

Grypiscus brasiliensis — Miranda-Ribeiro, 1935, Rev. Mus. Paulista, São Paulo, 19: 416.

Cycloramphus pinderi — Bokermann, 1951, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 42: 84.

Common Names

Brazilian Button Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 71).

Distribution

Serra dos Órgãos and Serra da Mantiqueira, Rio de Janeiro (state), Brazil, 800–1200 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Cycloramphus fuliginosus by Heyer, 1983, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 30: 295, where it had been placed by Bokermann, 1951, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 42: 80. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 619. Larval morphology, anatomy, and phylogenetics reported on by Dias, Vera Candioti, Sabbag, Colaço, Silva, Haddad, Carvalho-e-Silva, and Grant, 2021, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 59: 1297–1321.

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