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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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Hyloxalus fuliginosus Jiménez de la Espada, 1870

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Dendrobatoidea > Family: Dendrobatidae > Subfamily: Hyloxalinae > Genus: Hyloxalus > Species: Hyloxalus fuliginosus

Hyloxalus fuliginosus Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, 3: 59. Syntypes: not stated; MNCN 276 (2 specimens), according to Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 758, who designated as lectotype the smaller specimen (now MNCN 1586, according to González-Fernández, García-Díez, and San Segundo, 2009, Spixiana, München, 32: 272. Type locality: "in Ecuador; ad nemores pagi S. Jose de Moti", Cantón de Quijos, Napo Province, Ecuador. Discussed by Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 753, who suggested that this locality is "San José Mote Viejo . . . almost due east of Volcán Sumaco, at 0° 32′ S and 77° 25′ W in Provincia de Napo; it lies on a ridge projected east from Volcan Sumaco just north of the valley of the Río Suno, at about 1200 m elevation".

Hylixalus fuliginosus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 138.

Prostherapis fuliginosus —Dunn In Savage, 1968, Copeia, 1968: 6, by implication; Goin, 1960, Annu. Rep. Smithson. Inst. for 1959: 437.

Colostethus fuliginosus — Edwards, 1971, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 84: 148.

English Names

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

Distribution

Amazonian foothills of the Andes in northern Ecuador (Napo Province); records for Colombia and Venezuela require confirmation. See comment.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Ecuador

Likely/Controversially Present: Colombia, Venezuela

Endemic: Ecuador

Comment

Probably contains a number of undescribed species, according to Rivero, 1991, Caribb. J. Sci., 27: 12. See brief account by Coloma, 1995, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 33. See comment regarding type locality by Rivero and Almendáriz C., 1992 "1991", Rev. Politécnica, Quito, 16: 118–119. Ruiz-Carranza, Ardila-Robayo, and Lynch, 1996, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 20: 365–415, did not include this species as part of the Colombia fauna. Barrio-Amorós and Fuentes-Ramos, 1999, Acta Biol. Venezuelica, 19: 2, reported this species from Venezuela, but did not provide a precise locality. Barrio-Amorós, 2004, Rev. Ecol. Lat. Am., 9: 7, reported on distribution and relevant literature and suggested that presence in southern Venezuela required confirmation.

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