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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 lanciformis (Cope, 1871)

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

Hypsiboas lanciformis Cope, 1871 "1870", Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 11: 556. Type(s): Not stated, presumably ANSP or USNM, though not now known to exist. Type locality: "Pebas, Equador [sic]", Loreto, Peru.

Hyla lanciformis — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 361.

Hyla microcentra Werner, 1921, Zool. Anz., 52: 180. Holotype: Not designated, although presumably NHMW or ZMB. Type locality: "Kolumbien". Synonymy by Cochran and Goin, 1970, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 288: 189.

Hyla hypocellata Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 70. Holotype: MZUSP 236, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 67. Type locality: "Rio Juruá", Amazonas, Brazil; corrected to "Eirunepé, rio Juruá, Amazonas", Brazil, by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 52. Synonymy by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 52.

Hyla lanciformis lanciformis — Rivero, 1971, Caribb. J. Sci., 11: 4.

Hyla lanciformis guerreroi Rivero, 1971, Caribb. J. Sci., 11: 4. Holotype: UPRM 2635, by original designation. Type locality: "Guatapo, Edo. Miranda, Venezuela".

Hypsiboas lanciformis — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 86.

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

Common Names

Basin Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56).

Rocket Treefrog (Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 166).

Distribution

Amazon Basin (Brazil [Amazonas and Acre], Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia) and in Venezuela in forests of the Coastal Range, the Venezuelan Guayana and the Amazon Basin; Amapá, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela

Comment

See Trueb, 1977, Syst. Zool., 26: 165-184. Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 150–152, provided a brief account including characterization of call and tadpole. Márquez, De la Riva, and Bosch, 1993, Biotropica, 25: 426–443, described the advertisement call. See comments regarding distribution of Venezuelan population by Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 31 Rodríguez and Duellman, 1994, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 22: 30, provided a brief account for the Iquitos region of northeastern Peru as Hyla lanciformis. In the Hypsiboas albopunctatus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 86. França and Venâncio, 2010, Biotemas, 23: 71–84, provided a record for the municipality of Boca do Acre, Amazonas, with a brief discussion of the range. Bernarde, Machado, and Turci, 2011, Biota Neotrop., 11: 117–144, reported specimens from Reserva Extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade, Acre, Brazil. Costa-Campos, Gama, Galeno, Silva, Corrêa, Almeida, and Santiago, 2014, Check List, 10: 960–961, provided a record for Amapa, Brazil, and provided a range map. Zimmerman, 1983, Herpetologica, 39: 235–246, reported on advertisement call, as Hyla lanciformis. Lynch and Suárez-Mayorga, 2011, Caldasia, 33: 235–270, illustrated the tadpole and included the species in a key to the tadpoles of Amazonian Colombia. Acosta-Galvis, 2017, Biota Colomb., 18: 282–315, reported the species from the Municipality of Yopal, Casanare Department, Colombia. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 65, for comments on range, systematics, and literature. For identification of larvae (as Hyla lanciformis) in central Amazonia, Brazil, see Hero, 1990, Amazoniana, 11: 201–262. 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.: 166–167 (as Hypsiboas lanciformis). Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. Camper, Torres-Carvajal, Ron, Nilsson, Arteaga-Navarro, Knowles, and Arbogast, 2021, Check List, 17: 729–751, provided a record from Wildsumaco Wildlife Sanctuary, Napo Province, Ecuador. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 96–130, reported on distribution, literature, and conservation status for Amapá, Brazil. Schiesari, Rossa-Feres, Menin, and Hödl, 2022, Zootaxa, 5223: 45–47, detailed larval and metamorph morphology and natural history. Dias-Souza, Gama, Melo, Rebêlo, and Costa-Campos, 2022, Herpetol. Notes, 15: 1–11, provided a record from Santana I., Amapá, Brazil.

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