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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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Boana calcarata (Troschel, 1848)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Cophomantinae > Genus: Boana > Species: Boana calcarata

Hyla calcarata Troschel, 1848, in Schomburgk (ed.), Reisen Britisch-Guiana, 3: 660. Type(s): Not designated and likely now lost (see Cystignathus schomburkii). Type locality: "Britisch-Guiana" (= Guyana).

Hypsiboas calcaratus — Cope, 1867, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 200; Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 86.

Hyla leptoscelis Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 2: 432. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.23.10 (formerly 1915.3.9.18) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 91. Type locality: "Lago do Iachy, above São Paolo Clinenca, Rio Solimoens, Brazil" [= Tachy, above São Paulo Olivença, Rio Solimoes, Amazonas, Brazil]. Synonymy by Duellman, 1973, Copeia, 1973: 522.

Boana calcarata — Dubois, 2017, Bionomina, 11: 28.

English Names

Troschel's Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54).

Blue-flanked Treefrog (Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park: 166).

Convict Treefrog (Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 158).

Distribution

Below 700 m elevation in French Guiana, Guyana, and the Amazon Basin of Bolivia, Brazil, southeastern Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, elevations sea level to 650 m; possibly in southern Venezuela and Surinam. See comment.

Comment

In the Hyla geographica group of Duellman, 1973, Copeia, 1973: 522–523. Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 137–139, provided a brief account including characterization of call and tadpole. Rodríguez and Duellman, 1994, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 22: 26, provided a brief account for the Iquitos region of northeastern Peru as Hyla calcarata. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 122–123, provided a brief account and photo. In the Hypsiboas albopunctatus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 86. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park: 166-167, provided an account. Duellman, 2005, Cusco Amazonico: 204–205, provided an account (adult and larval morphology, description of the call, life history). Fouquet, Gilles, Vences, Marty, Blanc, and Gemmell, 2007, PLoS One, 10 (e1109): 1–10, provided molecular evidence that this is a species complex. See account for Surinam population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 134–135. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 403, for brief account and records for Guyana. Meza-Joya, Ramos-Pallares, and Hernández-Jaimes, 2019, Herpetol. Notes, 12: 391–400, provided molecular evidence for the presence of this species in Colombia. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 63, for comments on range, taxonomy, and literature. Señaris and Rojas-Runjaic, 2020, in Rull and Carnaval (eds.), Neotrop. Divers. Patterns Process.: 571–632, commented on range and conservation status in the Venezuelan Guayana. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 158–159.

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