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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 splendens (Schmidt, 1857)

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

Hyla splendens Schmidt, 1857, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Phys. Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 24: 11. Holotype: KM 1008/1340, according to Savage, 1970, Proc. California Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 38: 273–288 Type locality: "Chiriquiflusse unweit Bocca del toro", Panama; in error according to Savage and Heyer, 1969, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 16: 63, who suggested that the type may have come from Colombia, Peru, or Bolivia. De la Riva, Köhler, Lötters, and Reichle, 2000, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 14: 30, suggested that the type locality is in Bolivia inasmuch as this is the only known location for a specimen other than the holotype. This implicitly rejected by Köhler, Koch, Garlacz, Preick, De la Riva, and Vences, 2024, Salamandra, 60: 268, who corrected the type locality to "northwestern Peru" based on molecular grounds [following article 76A.2 of the Code].

Gastrotheca monticola Barbour and Noble, 1920, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 63: 426. Holotype: MCZ 5290, by original designation. Type locality: "Huancabamba, [Departamento Piura,] northwestern Peru". Synonymy by Köhler, Koch, Garlacz, Preick, De la Riva, and Vences, 2024, Salamandra, 60: 268.

Gastrotheca marsupiata monticola — Parker, 1932, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 10, 9: 25.

Gastrotheca (Duellmania) monticola — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 33; Duellman, 2015, Marsupial Frogs: 244.

Gastrotheca splendens — Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 651; Duellman and De la Riva, 1999, Copeia, 1999: 197.

Gastrotheca (Gastrotheca) splendens — Duellman, 2015, Marsupial Frogs: 384.

Common Names

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

Mountain Marsupial Frog (Gastrotheca monticola [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 53).

Distribution

Elevations of 1900–1960 m in the valley of the Río Huancabamba, which flows southward into the Río Chamaya, a tributary of the Río Marañón; the species occurs at Ayabaca (2700 m) northwest of the type locality. Its range extends southeastward to several localities at elevations of 2360–3235 m in the northern part of the Cordillera Central in Departamento Amazonas, Peru.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Endemic: Peru

Comment

See Köhler, Koch, Garlacz, Preick, De la Riva, and Vences, 2024, Salamandra, 60: 263–282, for an unraveling, based on comparative morphology and molecular markers, of a very complicated and extensive literature largely based on misidentified specimens.

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