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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.

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

Gastrotheca lauzuricae De la Riva, 1992, Rev. Esp. Herpetol., 6: 18. Holotype: CET 501, by original designation. Type locality: "La Siberia, a 40 Km de Comarapa en dirección a Poho (17° 48′ S/64° 46′ O), provincia Carrasco, departamento de Cochabamba, 2800 m", Bolivia. Synonymy with Gastrotheca coeruleomaculata by Duellman, 2015, Marsupial Frogs: 298, with Gastrotheca splendens by Lansac, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2021, Zootaxa, 5068: 211.

Gastrotheca piperata Duellman and Köhler, 2005, J. Herpetol., 39: 92. Holotype: ZFMK 66838, by original designation. Type locality: "Sehuencas (17° 29′ S, 65° 17′ W, 2150 m a.s.l.), Provincia Carrasco, Departamento de Cochabamba, Bolivia". Synonymy by Lansac, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2021, Zootaxa, 5068: 211.

Gastrotheca (Gastrotheca) piperata — Duellman, 2015, Marsupial Frogs: 363.

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).

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

Distribution

Cloud forest on the eastern slopes of the Andes in in central to southeastern Department of Cochabamba to southwestern Department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 1850 to 2800 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia

Endemic: Bolivia

Comment

See account by Duellman and De la Riva, 1999, Copeia, 1999: 197–199. Köhler, 2000, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 48: 93–94, provided brief comments on ecology and distribution. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Gastrotheca splendens and Gastrotheca lauzurica) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 399. 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 accounts (as Gastrotheca splendens and Gastrotheca lauzurica) by Duellman, 2015, Marsupial Frogs: 363–369, and 384–386. Lansac, Aguayo-Vedia, and De la Riva, 2021, Zootaxa, 5068: 211–239, examined the species of Gastrotheca from the Yungas of Bolivia, employing morphometrics and external morphology as well as cranial osteology, resulting in the synonymy of Gastrotheca piperata and Gastrotheca lauzurica.

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