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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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Phyllobates Bibron, 1840

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Dendrobatinae > Genus: Phyllobates

7 species

Phyllobates Bibron in De la Sagra, 1840, Hist. Fis. Polit. Nat. Cuba, 8 (Atlas Zool.): pl. 29bis. Type species: Phyllobates bicolor Bibron, 1840, by monotypy.

Phyllobates — Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 637. Type species: Phyllobates bicolor Duméril and Bibron, 1841, by monotypy. Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Anonymous, 2009, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 66: 103-105.

Phyllobates — Cocteau and Bibron, 1843, in de la Sagra (ed.), Hist. Phys. Polit. Nat. Cuba, 4 (Reptiles): 140.

Common Names

Golden Poison Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 51).

Poison-arrow Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 50).

Leaf Climbers (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 50).

Poison Arrow Frogs (CITES).

Distribution

Nicaragua to Colombia.

Comment

Even though most of the species formerly included in this genus, except for most of the former Phyllobates bicolor group, have been transferred to other genera, the most comprehensive account of this genus is that by Silverstone, 1976, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 27: 1–53. See Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 128, for a discussion of the generic description; C. W. Myers disagrees with Dubois' interpretation. Widmer, Lötters, and Jungfer, 2000, Naturwissenschaften, 87: 559–562, provided a molecular phylogenetic analysis of the species. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543–583, in their molecular study, confirmed the earlier result that Phyllobates is the sister taxon of the remaining dendrobatines. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 137–138, provided a key to the species of Phyllobates in Central America and provided maps and photographs of the species.

Contained taxa (7 sp.):

Phyllobates aurotaenia (Boulenger, 1913)

Phyllobates bezosi Amézquita, Vargas-Salinas, Ramos, Palacios-Rodríguez, Salazar, Quiroz, Bolívar-García, Galindo-Uribe, and Mazariegos-H., 2024

Phyllobates bicolor Bibron, 1840

Phyllobates lugubris (Schmidt, 1857)

Phyllobates samperi Amézquita, Vargas-Salinas, Ramos, Palacios-Rodríguez, Salazar, Quiroz, Bolívar-García, Galindo-Uribe, and Mazariegos-H., 2024

Phyllobates terribilis Myers, Daly, and Malkin, 1978

Phyllobates vittatus (Cope, 1893)

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