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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 multifasciata (Günther, 1859)

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

Hyla multifasciata Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 101. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.23.6 (formerly 1851.12.26.14) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 93; currently BMNH records list 1936.12.3.114 and 1947.2.23.6 as syntypes although only one specimen is noted in the original publication; presumably this is 1947.2.23.6 (DRF). Type locality: "Para", Brazil; given as "Pará, provàvelmente Belém" by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 56; stated as "Belém, Pará", Brazil, by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 78.

Hyla albopunctata multifasciata — Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 105.

Hyla multifasciata — Duellman, 1974, Copeia, 1974: 286.

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

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

Common Names

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

Distribution

Lowlands of eastern and southern Venezuela, through the Guianas to Ceará and Goiás, Rondônia, Pará, and Amapá, Brazil, limited by the Amazon, the Orinoco, and Rio Negro, 150 to 1400 m elevation. See comment.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela

Comment

Resurrected from the synonymy of Hyla albopunctata by Duellman, 1974, Copeia, 1974: 286, where it had been placed by Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 105 (who also provided an account). Reviewed by de Sá, 1996, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 624: 1-4. Duellman, 1974, Copeia, 1974: 286, noted that Lutz, 1973, Brazil. Spec. Hyla: 41, referred specimen of Hyla multifasciata to her Hyla daudini, which was coined as a replacement name for "Hyla boans Daudin". Duellman, 1997, Sci. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Univ. Kansas, 2: 18–19, commented on a population in southern Venezuela. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 112-113, provided a brief account and photo. See comments regarding distribution of Venezuelan population by Gorzula and Señaris Vasquez, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 34-35. In the Hypsiboas albopunctatus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 86. Loebmann, Prado, Haddad, Bastos, and Guimarães, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 476, provided records from Ceará and Goiás, Brazil. See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 154-155. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 406-407, for brief account and records for Guyana. Señaris Vasquez, Lampo, Rojas-Runjaic, and Barrio-Amorós, 2014, Guía Ilust. Anf. Parque Nac. Canaima: 158–159, provided a photograph and a brief account for the Parque Nacional de Canaima, Venezuela. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris Vasquez, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 65, for comments on range, systematics, and literature. Señaris Vasquez 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. Fouquet, Marinho, Réjaud, Carvalho, Caminer, Jansen, Rainha, Rodrigues, Werneck, Lima, Hrbek, Giaretta, Venegas, Chávez, and Ron, 2021, Syst. Biodiversity, 19: Supplemental Appendix 5, suggested that populations in the Guiana Shield (their Boana aff. albopunctata 2, Pará, Brazil (their Boana aff. albopunctata 4), and Rondônia, Brazil (their Boana aff. albopunctata 1) belong to unnamed species. Mittan-Moreau, Zamudio, Thomé, Camurugi, Colli, Garda, Haddad, and Prado, 2022, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 175 (107579): 1–11, detected a cryptic species associated with this lineage. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 112, noted that records from Amapá, Brazil, apply to an unnamed candidate species. They also reported on distribution, literature, and conservation status for Amapá, Brazil.

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