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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.
* = "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
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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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Hemiphractus bubalus (Jiménez de la Espada, 1870)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hemiphractidae > Genus: Hemiphractus > Species: Hemiphractus bubalus

Cerathyla bubalus Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, 3: 64. Holotype: Not stated; given as MNCN 176 by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 21, and MNCN 1736 by González-Fernández, 2006, Graellsia, 62: 132, and González-Fernández, García-Díez, and San Segundo, 2009, Spixiana, München, 32: 270. Type locality: "Ecaudor; ad pagum nemorosum prope Archidona"; given as "Archidona, Provincia Pastaza, Ecuador", by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 20.

Cerathyla braconnieri Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, 3: 64. Holotype: Not stated; given as MNCN 176 by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 21, and as MNCN 1735 by González-Fernández, 2006, Graellsia, 62: 132, and González-Fernández, García-Díez, and San Segundo, 2009, Spixiana, München, 32: 270. Type locality: "in Ecuador; in regioni sylvosa pagi Archidona"; given as "Zarajioto, Orillas del Napo", Province of Napo, Ecuador, by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 21. Synonymy by Trueb, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 29: 23.

Cerathyla palmarum Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, 3: 64. Holotype: Not stated; given as MNCN 175 by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 21, and MNCN 1738 by González-Fernández, 2006, Graellsia, 62: 132, and González-Fernández, García-Díez, and San Segundo, 2009, Spixiana, München, 32: 270. Type locality: "in Ecuador; ad lucos prope S. Jose de Moti"; given as "San José de Moti, Provincia Napo, Ecuador", by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 21. Synonymy by Trueb, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 29: 23.

Ceratohyla bubalus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 453. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Ceratohyla palmarum — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 453. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Ceratohyla braconnieri — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 453. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Hemiphractus bubalus — Noble, 1926, Am. Mus. Novit., 212: 19, by implication.

Hemiphractus palmarum — Noble, 1926, Am. Mus. Novit., 212: 19, by implication.

Hemiphractus braconnieri — Noble, 1926, Am. Mus. Novit., 212: 19, by implication.

Hemiphractus bubalus — Trueb, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 29: 23.

Common Names

Crested Casque-headed Frog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxx).

Rana de Casco Crestada (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: xxx).

Ecuador Horned Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 53).

Distribution

Upper Amazon Basin and lower Amazonian slopes of Andes in northern Peru, Ecuador (Sucumbios, Orellana, Napo, and Pastaza provinces), and southern Colombia (Caquetá to Putumayo), 300–2000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Comment

See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 622. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 4: 166–167, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult and larval morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), and conservation.

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