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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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Colostethus latinasus (Cope, 1863)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Colostethinae > Genus: Colostethus > Species: Colostethus latinasus

Phyllobates latinasus Cope, 1863, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 15: 48. Type(s): ANSP, lost, according to Barbour and Noble, 1920, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 63: 399; USNM 50198 designated neotype by Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 755. Type locality: "Truando region, [Departamento Chocó,] New Granada [=Colombia]"; neotype from "Panamá: Provincia de Darién, Cana". The locality data for the neotype are based on the assumption, now understood to be incorrect, that the ledger entries for USNM 50181–96 also applied to 50197–200. However, it is clear from the original ledger that the only data dittoes from the previous entries were country (Panama) and donor, S. W. Gotte, pers. comm. in Grant, 2004, Am. Mus. Novit., 3444: 20, who discussed and restricted the collection locality of the neotype to "Panama, probably on Cerro Pirre above Santa Cruz de Cana, Darién Province".

Colostethus latinasus — Cope, 1866, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 18: 130. Cope, 1874, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 26: 131; Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 755; Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148.

Colostethus latinosus — Cope, 1874, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 26: 131. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Phyllobates latinasus — Barbour and Noble, 1920, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 63: 401.

Common Names

Truando Rocket Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 48).

Distribution

Known with certainty only from Cerro Pirre above Santa Cruz de Cana, Darién Province, Panama, 1350 to 1475 m elevation; also reported from Juradó municipality in the Departamento Chocó, and the municipality of Tierralta, Departamento Córdoba, Colombia

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Panama

Comment

Peracca, 1904, Boll. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, 19 (465): 17, considered this a junior synonym of Colostethus pulchellus. See comment by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 643. See account by Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 754–755. This taxon has a complicated and difficult nomenclatural history as discussed by Grant, 2004, Am. Mus. Novit., 3444: 1–24. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 130–131, provided a key to the species in Central America and provided a map for this species. Lynch and Suárez-Mayorga, 2004, in Rangel-Ch. (ed.), Colombia Diversidad Biótica IV: 657, provided the record for Juradó Municipality, Chocó, Colombia. Romero-Martínez and Lynch, 2012, in Rangel-Ch. (ed.), Colombia Diversidad Biótica XII: 680, provided a record for Tierralta Municipality, Córdoba, Colombia. Ibáñez D., Griffith, Lips, and Crawford, 2017, Zootaxa, 4254: 91–101, reported on altitudinal distribution, advertisement call, and molecular comparison to similar sympatric species; these authors did not comment on reports from Colombia.

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