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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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Aplastodiscus Lutz, 1950

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Aplastodiscus

17 species

Aplastodiscus Lutz, 1950, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 48: 612. Type species: Aplastodiscus perviridis Lutz, 1950, by original designation.

Common Names

Canebrake Treefrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52).

Distribution

Central and southeastern Brazil to adjacent Argentina.

Comment

Discussed by Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 450-452. Caramaschi, 1983, Resumos. X Congr. Brasil. Zool.: 306-307, suggested Aplastodiscus to be a synonym of Hyla. Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 75, 78, placed Aplastodicus into Cophomantini and transferred the former Hyla albofrenata group into Aplastodiscus and recognized three species groups, the Aplastodiscus albofrenatus group, Aplastodiscus albosignatus group, and Aplastodiscus perviridis group. Lutz, 1973, Brazil. Spec. Hyla, discussed the Brazilian species that were in Hyla at the time. Cruz and Peixoto, 1987 "1985", Arq. Univ. Fed. Rural Rio de Janeiro, 8: 103-105, restricted the Hyla albomarginata group to Hyla albomarginata and Hyla rufitela and recognized the Hyla albosignata group and Hyla albofrenata groups. Berneck, Haddad, Lyra, Cruz, and Faivovich, 2016, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 97: 213–223, reported on the molecular andmorphological phylogenetics of the group, redelimited the species groups and noted six unnamed species. Marinho, Santos, Faivovich, Lyra, Giaretta, Haddad, and Carvalho, 2024, Herpetologica, 80: 51–66, provided a molecular tree of species as part of a partial revision of the Aplastodiscus albofrenatus group.

Contained taxa (17 sp.):

Aplastodiscus albofrenatus (Lutz, 1924)

Aplastodiscus albosignatus (Lutz and Lutz, 1938)

Aplastodiscus arildae (Cruz and Peixoto, 1987)

Aplastodiscus aulophonus Marinho, Santos, Faivovich, Lyra, Giaretta, Haddad, and Carvalho, 2024

Aplastodiscus cavicola (Cruz and Peixoto, 1985)

Aplastodiscus cochranae (Mertens, 1952)

Aplastodiscus ehrhardti (Müller, 1924)

Aplastodiscus eugenioi (Carvalho-e-Silva and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2005)

Aplastodiscus flumineus (Cruz and Peixoto, 1985)

Aplastodiscus heterophonicus Pinheiro, Pezzuti, Berneck, Lyra, Lima, and Leite, 2021

Aplastodiscus ibirapitanga (Cruz, Pimenta, and Silvano, 2003)

Aplastodiscus leucopygius (Cruz and Peixoto, 1985)

Aplastodiscus lutzorum Berneck, Giaretta, Brandão, Cruz, and Haddad, 2017

Aplastodiscus musicus (Lutz, 1949)

Aplastodiscus perviridis Lutz, 1950

Aplastodiscus sibilatus (Cruz, Pimenta, and Silvano, 2003)

Aplastodiscus weygoldti (Cruz and Peixoto, 1987)

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