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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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Oophaga granulifera (Taylor, 1958)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Dendrobatinae > Genus: Oophaga > Species: Oophaga granulifera

Dendrobates granuliferus Taylor, 1958, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 39: 10. Holotype: KU 43874, by original designation. Type locality: "on low mountains, north of the Río Diquis, about 3 miles north of Palmar [Norte], [Cantón de Osa,] Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 101, commented on the type locality.

Ranitomeya granuliferus — Anonymous, 1985, Ripa, Netherlands, April: 2.

Dendrobates granulifer — Duellman, 1993, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 21: 60. Incorrect subsequent spelling of the species name (Art. 32.5.1, 1999 Code).

Oophaga granulifera — Bauer, 1994, Ripa, Netherlands, Fall: 4; Grant, Frost, Caldwell, Gagliardo, Haddad, Kok, Means, Noonan, Schargel, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 299: 172.

Common Names

Granular Poison Frog (Walls, 1994, Jewels of the Rainforest: 22; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 50).

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

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

Distribution

Lowland forests of the Golfo Dulce region of the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, sea level to 100 m elevation; presumably in adjacent Panama.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica

Likely/Controversially Present: Panama

Endemic: Costa Rica

Comment

See accounts by Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 760; Silverstone, 1975, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 21: 36–37; and Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 384–386 (who discussed natural and introduced populations within Costa Rica). van Wijngaarden and Bolaños, 1992, J. Herpetol., 26: 102–105, described the tadpole. Lips and Savage, 1996, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 109: 17–26, included this species (as Dendrobates granuliferus) in a key to the tadpoles found in Costa Rica. Lötters, Jungfer, Henkel, and Schmidt, 2007, Poison Frogs: 567–575, provided an account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Dendrobates granuliferus) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 229, who reported the range to possibly include southeastern Costa Rica and adjacent northwestern Panama. Brusa, Bellati, Meuche, Mundy, and Pröhl, 2013, J. Biogeograph., 40: 394–408, reported on phenotype, advertisement call, and molecular diversification in Costa Rica. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 131–136, provided a key to the species of Andinobates, Dendrobates, and Oophaga (as Dendrobates) in Central America and provided a map and photograph of this species.

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