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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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Gastrotheca fissipes (Boulenger, 1888)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hemiphractidae > Genus: Gastrotheca > Species: Gastrotheca fissipes

Nototrema fissipes Boulenger, 1888, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 2: 42. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.22.40 (formerly 1888.4.18.20) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 86. Type locality: "Iguarasse [= Igaraçu], Pernambuco", Brazil. Rendered as "Municipality of Igarassu, 07 50 S, 34 54 W, State of Pernambuco, Brazil" by Caramaschi and Rodrigues, 2007, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 525: 3.

Opisthodelphis fissipes — Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 113.

Gastrotheca fissipes — Gorham, 1963, Canad. Field Nat., 77: 21.

Gastrotheca (Opisthodelphys) fissipes — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 31.

Gastrotheca (Eotheca) fissipes — Duellman, 2015, Marsupial Frogs: 124.

Eotheca fissipes — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 431.

English Names

Igaracu Marsupial Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 53).

Distribution

Coastal lowlands of Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe, and far south of there in coastal Bahia, eastern Brazil, below 700 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Gastrotheca ovifera group by implication of Duellman, Maxson, and Jesiolowski, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 527–543. See account by Caramaschi and Rodrigues, 2007, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 525: 1–19. Confused with Gastrotheca megacephala prior to the naming of the latter. Mira-Mendes, Ruas, Lourenço-de-Moraes, Rödder, and Solé, 2012, Zootaxa, 3312: 62–64, reported on advertisement call and range, suggesting sympatry with Gastrotheca megacephala in coastal Bahia, Brazil. Xavier and Dias, 2015, Herpetol. Rev., 46: 212, provided a record for Sergipe, Brazil. In the Gastrotheca fissipes group of Castroviejo-Fisher, Padial, De la Riva, Pombal, Silva, Rojas-Runjaic, Medina-Méndez, and Frost, 2015, Zootaxa, 4004: 1–72. See detailed account by Duellman, 2015, Marsupial Frogs: 122–128. Juncá, 2006, Biota Neotrop., 6: 1–17, briefly summarized the presence of this species in the Serra da Jibóia region, Bahia, Brazil, and its habitat. Roberto, Santos, and Carvalho, 2019, Zootaxa, 4543: 284–286, reported on the advertisement call. Reported from the Environmental Protection Area of Catolé and Fernão Velho, Alagoas, Brazil, by Dubeux, Nascimento, Gonçalves, and Mott, 2021, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 61 (e20216176): 1–10, who provided a key to the frogs of that region.

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