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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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Bokermannohyla alvarengai (Bokermann, 1956)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Genus: Bokermannohyla > Species: Bokermannohyla alvarengai

Hyla alvarengai Bokermann, 1956, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 12: 357. Holotype: MZUSP 1680, by original designation. Type locality: "Santa Barbara, próximo a Belo Horizonte, Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil". Given as "Serra do Caraça, Santa Barbara, Minas Gerais", Brazil by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 44.

Bokermannohyla alvarengai — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 84.

Common Names

Santa Barbara Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54).

Alvarenga's Treefrog (Eterovick and Sazima, 2004, Anf. Serra do Cipó: 41).

Distribution

Serra do Espinhaço in Bahia and Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

See Sazima and Bokermann, 1977, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 37: 413–417, for adult and larval morphology, natural history, and advertisement call (as Hyla alvarengai). In the Bokermannohyla pseudopseudis group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 83-84. Eterovick and Sazima, 2004, Anf. Serra do Cipó: 41-42, provided a photograph and brief account (as Hyla alvarengai). Nali, Zamudio, and Prado, 2014, Amphibia-Reptilia, 35: 355-360, who characterized a number of polymorphic microsatellite markers. Eterovick, Souza, and Sazima, 2020, Anf. Serra do Cipó: 1-292, provided an account, life history information, and an identification scheme for the Serra de Cipó, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Bang, Rocha, Leal, and Leite, 2020, Zootaxa, 4896: 145–150, reported on vocalization and natural history. Oliveira, Gehara, Solé, Lyra, Haddad, Silva, Magalhães, Leite, and Burbrink, 2021, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 160 (107113): 1–11, reported on molecular phylogeography. Pezzuti, Leite, Rossa-Feres, and Garcia, 2021, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 22 (Special Issue): 1–109, described and discussed larval morphology and natural history. Santos, Feio, and Nomura, 2023, Biota Neotrop., 23 (3:e20231486): 1–43, characterized tadpole morphology as part of an identification key to the tadpoles of the Brazilian Cerrado. Unassigned to species group by Faivovich, Lourenço, Pinheiro, Lyra, Baêta, Magalhães, Grant, Pezzuti, Leite, Araujo-Vieira, Brandão, Carvalho, Marinho, Orrico, Sabbag, Berneck, Pereyra, Giaretta, Toledo, Garcia, Pombal, Wheeler, Rodrigues, Napoli, and Haddad, 2025, Cladistics, 41: 323–357, who reported on phylogenetics, biogeography, and evolution of reproductive biology.

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