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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 eleutherodactylus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920)

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

Iliodiscus eleutherodactylus Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920, Rev. Mus. Paulista, São Paulo, 12: 270. Syntypes: MZUSP 20 (1 specimen), 24 (21 specimens), 572 (1 specimen), 816 (1 specimen), 835 (1 specimen); MZUSP 24x designated lectotype by Bokermann, 1951, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 42: 87. Type locality: "Alto da Serra—São Paulo" and "Rio Grande—São Paulo", Brazil; lectotype from "Alto da Serra—São Paulo", Brazil.

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

Cyclorhamphus eleutherodactylus — Brazil and Vellard, 1926, Mem. Inst. Butantan, São Paulo, 3: 43.

Cyclorhamphus eleutherodactylus var. variegata Lutz, 1929, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 22: 12. Types: Not designated, presumably originally in Lutz collection or IOC; now MNRJ 446, 550–552, 711, and 908–909 according to Caramaschi and Pombal, 2023, Zootaxa, 5339: 470–471, who designated MNRJ 908 lectotype. Type localities: Not specifically designated but Gorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 47, considered it to be Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, and Serra da Bocaina on the Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo boundary, Brazil. Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 32, stated the type localities to be "Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Gauanabara; Paranapiacaba (= Serra de Cubatão), São Paulo e Serra da Bocaina, São Paulo", Brazil. According to Caramaschi and Pombal, 2023, Zootaxa, 5339: 470–471, the syntypes are from "DF, Sumaré, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil" (AL-MNRJ 446), "Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil" (AL-MNRJ 550-552), "Alto da Serra de Cubatão, State of São Paulo, Brazil" (AL-MNRJ 711), and "“Bonito, Serra da Bocaina” [22°45’S, 44°33’W; Datum WGS 84; 1,185 m a.s.l.], Municipality of São José do Barreiro, State of São Paulo, Brazil" (AL-MNRJ 908–909); the lectotype being AL-MNRJ 908 and its collection locality being the restricted type locality.

Cyclorhamphus eleutherodactylus var. strigilata Lutz, 1929, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 22: 13. Types: Not designated; presumably originally in the Lutz collection; holotype is now AL-MNRJ 712 according to Caramaschi and Pombal, 2023, Zootaxa, 5339: 470. Type locality not specifically designated but Gorham, 1966, Das Tierreich, 85: 47, considered it to be Alto da Serra, São Paulo, Brazil and Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 32, stated it to be "Via Anchieta, Cubatão (= Estrada Nova de São Paulo a Santos) São Paulo", Brazil. Caramaschi and Pombal, 2023, Zootaxa, 5339: 470–471, discussed the holotype and the qualifications surrounding its collection locality.

Cycloramphus eleutherodactylus — Bokermann, 1951, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 42: 87.

English Names

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

Distribution

Serra dos Órgãos, Serra da Mantiqueira, Serra da Bocaina, and Serra do Mar, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

See account by Heyer, Rand, Cruz, Peixoto, and Nelson, 1990, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 31: 292-293. Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 80, provided a brief account and photo. Verdade, Almeida-Silva, and Rodrigues, 2023, Zootaxa, 5254: 287–294, described larval morphology.

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