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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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Mannophryne herminae (Boettger, 1893)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Aromobatidae > Subfamily: Aromobatinae > Genus: Mannophryne > Species: Mannophryne herminae

Prostherapis herminae Boettger, 1893, Ber. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges., 1893: 37. Syntypes: SMF (5 specimens) in the original publication; SMF 7286 (formerly 1139.1a) invalidly considered "holotypus" by Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 43. Type locality: "Puerto Cabello[, Estado Carabobo,] in Venezuela".

Colostethus herminae — Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148; Edwards, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 30: 1-14; La Marca, 1992, Cuad. Geograf., Mérida, 9: 26.

Colostethus trinitatus herminae — Rivero, 1984 "1982", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 42: 14.

Mannophryne herminae — La Marca, 1994, Publ. Asoc. Amigos Doñana, 4: 21.

English Names

Hermina's Poison Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).

Distribution

North-central Venezuela from the central portion of the Cordillera de la Costa, 30–1610 m elevation.

Geographics occurrence

Natural resident: Venezuela

Endemic to the political unit: Venezuela

Comment

Removed from synonymy of Colostethus trinitatus without discussion by Edwards, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 30: 1-14, where it had been placed by Boulenger, 1894, Zool. Rec., 30: 35, Barbour and Noble, 1920, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 63: 401, and Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 158. This arrangement has been followed by all subsequent authors except Rivero, 1984 "1982", Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 42: 14, who regarded it as a race of Colostethus trinitatus. See La Marca, 1992, Cuad. Geograf., Mérida, 9: 26, who recognized and diagnosed it. Manzanilla, Jowers, La Marca, and García-París, 2007, Herpetol. J., 17: 31-42, suggested that the populations from the north-central versant of the central Sierra de la Costa needed to be assessed with molecular data to determine if they were conspecific with nominal Mannophryne herminae. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 614. Sánchez, 2013, Zootaxa, 3637: 569–591, provided information on larval morphology. Rojas-Runjaic, Matta-Pereira, and La Marca, 2018, Zootaxa, 4461: 451–476, refined the range and provided the call to disinguish this species from Mannophryne molinai. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 44–46, for comments on range, taxonomy (including noting an unnamed cryptic species), and literature.

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