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* = "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.
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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 ovifera (Lichtenstein and Weinland, 1854)

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

Notodelphys ovifera Lichtenstein and Weinland, 1854, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1854: 373. Holotype: ZMB by original designation; given as ZMB 3073 by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 18. Type locality: "Venezuela"; restricted to "Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, Venezuela" by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 18, who subsequently (Duellman, 2015, Marsupial Frogs: 209) considered this locality as the likely shipping point, not within the range. Also named as new by Weinland, 1854, Arch. Anat. Physiol. Wiss. Med., 1854: 473.

Notodelphis dorsigera Schlegel, 1858, Handl. Dierkd., 2: 59. Holotype: Not stated, but presumably in RMNH. Type locality: "Venezuela". Synonymy by Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 223.

Opisthodelphys ovifera — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 117.

Nototrema oviferum — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 418.

Hyla vogli Müller, 1938, Zool. Anz., 121: 284. Holotype: ZSM 67/1937, according to Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 170. Type locality: "Avila (Hazienda 'Los Venados')", mountains near Maracay, Venezuela. Synonymy by Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 143.

Gastrotheca ovifera — Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 143.

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

Common Names

Pouched Frog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 143; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 52).

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

Distribution

Cloud forests of the Cordillera de la Costa and Sierra de Aroa, northern Venezuela (states of Aragua, Cojedes, Miranda, Distrito Federal, Carabobo, and Yaracuy), 890–2060 m elevation; possibly extending into Península de Paria.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

In the Gastrotheca ovifera group of Duellman, Maxson, and Jesiolowski, 1988, Copeia, 1988: 527-543. See Manzanilla and Sánchez, 2003, Herpetol. Rev., 34: 381, for a recent range extension. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 397. Valera-Leal, Manzanilla, Acevedo-Rincón, Pérez-Sánchez, and Vega, 2011, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 59: 329–345, documented disappearances for historical localities in the Cordillera de la Costa, northern Venezuela. In the Gastrotheca marsupiata 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: 206–210. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris Vasquez, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 55, for comments on range and literature.

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