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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 bischoffi (Boulenger, 1887)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Boana > Species: Boana bischoffi

Hyla bischoffi Boulenger, 1887, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 20: 298. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.12.81-82 (formerly 88.11.30.7-8) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 88. Type locality: "Mundo Novo, [Taquara,] Rio Grande do Sul", Brazil.

Hyla vittigera Werner, 1894, Zool. Anz., 17: 412. Holotype: Presumably NHMW, not mentioned in recent type lists. Type locality: "Blumenau in der Provinz Santa Catharina, Brasilien". Synonymy by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 64.

Hyla multilineata Lutz and Lutz, 1939, An. Acad. Brasil. Cienc., 11: 72. Holotype: A. Lutz collection, now AL-MNRJ 726 according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 38. Type locality: "Alto da Serra de Cubutão, State of S. Paulo", Brazil. Given as "Paranapiacaba (= Alto da Serra), São Paulo", Brazil by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 56. Synonymy by Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 84.

Hyla bischoffi bischoffi — Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 84, by implication.

Hyla bischoffi multilineata — Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 84.

Hypsiboas bischoffi — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 88.

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

English Names

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

Distribution

Extreme southwestern Rio de Janeiro (state), west through coastal São Paulo, Paraná and Santa Catarina, to northeastern Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Comment

Related to Hyla pulchella according to the original publication. In the Hypsiboas pulchellus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87-88. See account (under Hyla multilineata [for ambiguous reasons]) by Heyer, Rand, Cruz, Peixoto, and Nelson, 1990, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 31: 252-253. In the Hyla pulchella group of Faivovich, Garcia, Ananias, Lanari, Basso, and Wheeler, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 32: 945. Marcelino, Haddad, and Alexandrino, 2009, J. Herpetol., 43: 351–361, reported on geographic distribution and morphological variation, but apparently did not accept the synonymy of Hyla vittigera Werner, 1894, this synonymy having been made by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 64. Teixeira, Marcelino, Alexandrino, Haddad, and Giaretta, J. Herpetol., 56: 110–119, demonstrated via molecular and acoustic data that Boana bischoffi is composed of two leaky historical lineages that introgress where they contact, but refrained from recognizing them taxonomically. Silva-Soares, Garcia, Del’ Maestro, and Santos, 2022, Oecologia Aust., 26: 614–619, provided a record from western Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and a dot map of the species.

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