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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 goiana (Lutz, 1968)

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

Hyla polytaenia goiana Lutz, 1968, Pearce-Sellards Ser., 12: 11. Holotype: MNRJ 3235, by original designation. Type locality: "Jatobasinho, São João da Aliança, highlands of Goiás", Brazil., 19° 30′ S, 43° 44′ W, Brazil.

Hyla goiana — Cruz and Caramaschi, 1998, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 392: 5.

Hyla phaeopleura Caramaschi and Cruz, 2000, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 422: 5. Holotype: MNRJ 19915, by original designation. Type locality: "Brasil, Goiás, Chapada dos Veadeiros, Município de Alto Paraíso de Goiás, no cruzamento entre o rio dos Couros e à estrada que liga a cidade de Alto Paraíso de Goiás a vila de São Jorge (14° 08′ S, 47° 32′ W)". Synonymy by Faivovich, Pinheiro, Lyra, Pereyra, Baldo, Muñoz-Saravia, Reichle, Brandão, Giaretta, Thomé, Chaparro, Baêta, Widholzer, Baldo, Lehr, Wheeler, Garcia, and Haddad, 2021, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 155 (106981): 15; this synonymy confirmed by the results of Vasconcellos, Colli, and Cannatella, 2021, J. Biogeograph., 48: 310.

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

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

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

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

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Central Plateau of Goiás and the Federal District and southeastern Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

See Cruz and Caramaschi, 1998, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 392: 1–19, for account and placement in the Hyla polytaenia group. In the Hyla pulchella group, Hyla polytaenia clade of Faivovich, Garcia, Ananias, Lanari, Basso, and Wheeler, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 32: 944. Menin, Silva, and Giaretta, 2004, Iheringia, Zool., 94: 49–51, described the advertisement call and reproductive behavior. In the Hypsiboas pulchellus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87–88. Dias, Bastos, Siqueira, and Morais, 2014, Herpetol. Notes, 7: 215–217, reported on the release call. Signorelli, Morais, and Vieira, 2016, Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ., 51: 188–196, reported on vocalization. Furtado, Santos, Dias, Bastos, and Nomura, 2016, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 11: 136–147, reported on vocal repertoire. Oliveira, Santos, Souza, Lima-Ribeiro, Vergilio, Zórtea, Silva, Melo, Guilherme, Vaz-Silva, and Morais, 2019, Herpetol. Notes, 12: 492, reported the species from southwestern Goíás, Brazil, and discussed natural history. Vaz-Silva, Maciel, Nomura, Morais, Guerra Batista, Santos, Andrade, Oliveira, Brandão, and Bastos, 2020, Guia Ident. Anf. Goiás e Dist. Fed. Brasil Central: 48–50, provided accounts (as Boana phaeopleura and Boana goiana). Andreani, Bastos, Dias, Prado, and Lima, 2020, Amphibia-Reptilia, 42: 43–57, reported on acoustic variability.

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