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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 pardalis (Spix, 1824)

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

Hyla pardalis Spix, 1824, Animal. Nova Spec. Nov. Test. Ran. Brasil.: 34. Type(s): Not specifically designated, but including animal figured in pl. 8, fig. 3 of the original publcation; syntypes were ZSM 2499/0 (2 specimens), now lost, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 81, and Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 366, who noted that Peters, 1873 "1872", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 768-772, considered one specimen to be Hyla pardalis Spix and the other a specimen of Hyla crepitans (corrected to Hyla circumdata by Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 366). Type locality: "Provincia Rio de Janeiro", Brazil. Restricted to "Rio de Janeiro", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 58.

Hyla (Lophopus) corticalis Burmeister, 1856, Erläut. Fauna Brasil.: 95. Types: Frogs illustrated in Plate 30, figs. 7-12 in original publication, deposition of specimens unknown. Type locality: "Neu-Freiburg" (= Nova Friburgo), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Synonymy by Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 76.

Hyla corticalis — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 95.

Hypsiboas pardalis — Cope, 1867, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 200; Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87.

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

Common Names

Leopard Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 57).

Distribution

Coastal São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Minas Gerais, and Espíritu Santo, north to southern Bahia, Brazil; possibly an isolated population in Goias (see comment)

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

See Lutz, 1973, Brazil. Spec. Hyla: 26-29; Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 459-462; and Heyer, Rand, Cruz, Peixoto, and Nelson, 1990, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 31: 269-271. See comments under Hyla biobeba. Records from Misiones, Argentina, were referred to Osteocephalus langsdorffii by Carrizo, 1991 "1990", Cuad. Herpetol., 5: 32-39. In the Hypsiboas faber group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87. Mattedi and Pontes, 2014, Herpetol. Notes, 7: 791-795, provided a range extension to the Muncipality of Sooretama, Espírito Santo, Brazil, corrected misidentifications, and discussed and mapped the range including a possible record without detailed locality data from Goiás. Andrade, Carvalho, Martins, and Giaretta, 2017, Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ., 52: 157–167, reported on vocal repertoire and use this as evidence for placement in the Boana faber group. Pezzuti, Leite, Rossa-Feres, and Garcia, 2021, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 22 (Special Issue): 1–109, described and discussed larval morphology and natural history. Manzano, Takeno, and Sawaya, 2022, Zootaxa, 5178: 453–472, reported on the advertisement call.

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