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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 ravida (Caramaschi, Napoli, and Bernardes, 2001)

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

Hyla fernandoi Pombal and Haddad, 1993, Herpetologica, 49: 16–21. Nomen nudum. Synonymy by Caramaschi, Napoli, and Bernardes, 2001, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 457: 2.

Hyla ravida Caramaschi, Napoli, and Bernardes, 2001, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 457: 2. Holotype: MNRJ 13720, by original designation. Type locality: "Brasil, Minas Gerais, Município de Presidente Olegário, Estação Biológica de Vereda Grande (18° 25′ S, 46° 25′ W, 947 m de altitude)".

Bokermannohyla ravida — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 83.

Boana ravida — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 743, by implication.

Bokermannohyla napolii Carvalho, Giaretta, and Magrini, 2012, Zootaxa, 3321: 39. Holotype: UFMG 3333, by original designation. Type locality: "Estação de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Ambiental Galheiro (EPDA-Galheiro; 19° 12′ S; 47° 08′ W, 845 m a.s.l.), Municipality of Perdizes, State of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil". Synonymy 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: 341.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Central and southwestern Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Hyla circumdata group according to the original publication. In the Bokermannohyla circumdata group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 82–83. In the Bokermannohyla izecksohni group of 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 systematics, phylogenetics, biogeography, and evolution of reproductive biology.

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