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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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Adelphobates galactonotus (Steindachner, 1864)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Dendrobatinae > Genus: Adelphobates > Species: Adelphobates galactonotus

Dendrobates galactonotus Steindachner, 1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 260. Holotype: NHMW 19189, according to Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 44. Type locality: "Rio do Muría bei Sitio do S'Pedro Gurção, nördlich von Vigia zur F. reguezia [= Freguenzia]", Pará, Brazil. Name attributed by Steindachner to Fitzinger, but clearly Steindachner is responsible for the description.

Dendrobates paraensis Boulenger, 1913, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1913: 1028-29. Syntypes: BMNH (8 specimens), by original designation; these being 1845.8.25.142, 1845.8.25.161, 1851.2.3.9, 1896.1.7.1, and 1904.7.26.9-11, by museum records. Type locality: "Para", Brazil. Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 34, suggested the the type locality as "provàlvelmente Belém". Synonymy by Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 11; Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 27.

Adelphobates galactonotus — Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 172.

English Names

Splash-backed Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 22).

Splashback Poison Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 49).

Splash-backed Poison-arrow Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 49).

Splash-backed Poison Frog (CITES).

Distribution

Lowland forests of southern tributaries of the Amazon, from the Rio Tapajós east to the mouth of the Amazon, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

See account by Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 44-45. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 521-526, provided an account. Hoogmoed and Avila-Pires, 2012, Phyllomedusa, 11: 95-115, reported on color polymorphism (as Dendrobates galactonotus). Santos, Dantas, and Nomura, 2018, Zootaxa, 4422: 287–290, described the larva. Santos, Feio, and Nomura, 2023, Biota Neotrop., 23 (3:e20231486): 1–43, characterized tadpole morphology as part of an identification key to the tadpoles of the Brazilian Cerrado.

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