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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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Allobates talamancae (Cope, 1875)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Allobatinae > Genus: Allobates > Species: Allobates talamancae

Dendrobates talamancae Cope, 1875 "1876", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 8: 102. Type(s): ANSP or USNM; lost, according to Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 390. Type locality: "near Old Harbour [=Puerto Viejo], on the East coast, [Cantón de Limón, Provincia Limón,]" Costa Rica.

Hylaplesia talamancae — Brocchi, 1882, Miss. Scient. Mex. Amer. Centr., Rech. Zool., 3(2, livr. 2): 88–89.

Dendrobates talamancae — Werner, 1901, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 51: 630.

Phyllobates talamancae — Barbour and Dunn, 1921, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 34: 159.

Colostethus talamancae — Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 758; Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 11.

Allobates talamancae — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 162.

Common Names

Talamanca Nurse Frog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxi).

Rana Nordriza de Talamanca (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxi).

Rana Cohete (Spanish: Salazar-Saavedra, 2025, Rev. Nicaraguense Biodiversidad, 114: 16).

Talamanca Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 49; Salazar-Saavedra, 2025, Rev. Nicaraguense Biodiversidad, 114: 16).

Distribution

Extreme southern Nicaragua and Costa Rica through Panama and northwestern and western Colombia (southern Córdoba south along the Pacific plain) to northwestern Ecuador (Esmeraldas, Carchi, Manabí, and Pichincha provinces), 0–970 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

Not assigned to species group by Rivero, 1990 "1988", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 48: 3–32. See accounts by Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 758–759, Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 51, and Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 381–382 (who provided data on larval morphology and advertisement call). Lips and Savage, 1996, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 109: 17–26, included this species (as Colostethus talamancae) in a key to the tadpoles found in Costa Rica. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189–202, regarding Nicaraguan populations. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 129, provided a comparison with other dendrobatids in Central America and provided a maps and photographs. Pinto-Erazo, Calderón-Espinosa, Medina-Rangel, and Méndez-Galeano, 2020, Biota Colomb., 21: 44–57, provided records from Tumaco and Francisco Pizarro municipalities, Nariño, Colombia. Romero-Martínez, Vidal-Pastrana, Lynch, and Dueñas, 2008, Caldasia, 30: 209–229, discussed the population on Cerro Murrucucú, Córdoba, Colombia. Martínez-Fonseca, Holmes, Sunyer, Westeen, Grundler, Cerda, Fernández-Mena, Loza-Molina, Monagan, Nondorf, Pandelis, and Rabosky, 2024, Check List, 20: 62, provided a record from Refugio Bartola, Departamento Río San Juan, Nicaragua, 60 m elevation. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 62–64, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult and larval morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map and elevations for Ecuador), conservation, and (on pp. 547–548) the advertisement call.

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