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* = "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
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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 quinquevittatus (Steindachner, 1864)

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

Dendrobates quinquevittatus Jan, 1857, Cenni Mus. Civ. Milano: 53. Type(s): MSNM. Type locality: Not stated. Nomen nudum attributed to Fitzinger and Tschudi, presumably on the basis of label names.

Dendrobates tinctorius var. quinquevittatus Steindachner, 1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 260. Holotype: NHMW 16517, according to Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 1–55. Type locality: "Salto do Girao" (= Salto do Jirau), Rondônia, Brazil.

Dendrobates quinquevittatus — Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 11.

Ranitomeya quinquevittata — Anonymous, 1985, Ripa, Netherlands, April: 2, by implication.

Ranitomeya quinquevittata — Bauer, 1988, Het Paludarium, Netherlands, November: 6.

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

Common Names

Rio Madeira Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 24; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).

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

Amazonian Poison Frog (CITES).

Distribution

Southern Amazonia, in the Rio Madeira drainage of western Brazil (Rondônia and Amazona) as well as Acre; also found in neighboring Departamento Pando in Bolivia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Peru

Comment

Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 125–126, provided a brief account. Account available in Caldwell and Myers, 1990, Am. Mus. Novit., 2988: 1–21. Most records of this species before 1990 refer to Adelphobates ventrimaculatus; see Caldwell and Myers, 1990, Am. Mus. Novit., 2988: 1–21. See also Martins and Haddad, 1990, Mem. Inst. Butantan, São Paulo, 52: 53–56, for discussion of identity. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 57, and Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 69, considered this species possibly to occur in Bolivia. Schulte, 1999, Pfeilgiftfrösche: 76–80, provided an account and a record for Peru, which was doubted by Lötters and Vences, 2001 "2000", Salamandra, 36: 247–260, who discussed the relevant specimen. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 527–529, provided an account. Bernarde, Machado, and Turci, 2011, Biota Neotrop., 11: 117–144, reported specimens from Reserva Extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade, Acre, Brazil. Ferreira, 2021, Biota Amazônia, 11: 22–28, provided a record (as Adelphobates cf. quinquevittatus) from Maués municipality, Amazonia, Brazil, and briefly discussed the range. Medeiros, Ribas, and Lima, 2021, Evol. Biol., 48: 269–285, discussed phylogeography related to the historical dynamics of the Upper Medeira River, Rondônia, Brazil.

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