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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 |
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Hyla |
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Strings of words without quotation marks |
Lithobates pipiens |
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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. |
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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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Ameerega Bauer, 1986
29 species
Ameerega Bauer, 1986, Ripa, Netherlands, November: 5. Type species: Hyla trivittata Spix, 1824, by original designation.
Phobobates Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988, Salamandra, 24: 134. Type species: Dendrobates silverstonei Myers and Daly, 1979, by original designation. Synonymy with Epipedobates by Myers, Paolillo-O., and Daly, 1991, Am. Mus. Novit., 3002: 18. Synonymy with Ameerega noted by Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 283. Synonymy with Ameerega by Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 163.
Pseudendrobates Bauer, 1988, Het Paludarium, Netherlands, November: 2. Type species: Dendrobates silverstonei Myers and Daly, 1979, by original designation. Coined as a subgenus of Phyllobates. Objective synonym by reason of sharing the type species.
English Names
None noted.
Distribution
Mato Grosso do Sul and Goias, Brazil, north and northwest throughout the Amazonian South America, west to the foothills of the Andes in Bolivia to Venezuela.
Comment
See Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299, for discussion of taxonomic history and revision. Roberts, Brown, von May, Arizabal, Schulte, and Summers, 2006, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 41: 149-164, discussed phylogeny of selected species (as Epipedobates). See comment under Colostethus. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, confirmed the monophyly of this taxon, although suggesting that its recognition renders Colostethus paraphyletic; they also provided a tree of exemplar species. Guillory, French, Twomey, Chávez, Prates, von May, De la Riva, Lötters, Reichle, Serrano-Rojas, Whitworth, and Brown, 2020, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 142 (106638): 1–13, discussed phylogenetics within the genus based on ultraconserved genomic elements, redelimited the species groups.
Contained taxa (29 sp.):
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