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* = "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.
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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 platanera La Marca, Escalona, Castellanos, Rojas-Runjaic, Crawford, Señaris, Fouquet, Giaretta, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2021

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

Boana platanera La Marca, Escalona, Castellanos, Rojas-Runjaic, Crawford, Señaris, Fouquet, Giaretta, and Castroviejo-Fisher in Escalona Sulbarán, La Marca, Castellanos-Montero, Fouquet, Crawford, Rojas-Runjaic, Giaretta, Señaris, and Castroviejo-Fisher, 2021, Zootaxa, 4981: 413. Holotype: ULABG 7758, by original designation. Type locality: "2 km of La Soledad, on the road from Barinitas to Santo Domingo, Barinas state, Venezuela (08º48’26’’ N, 70º30’46’’ W [datum: WGS 84]; 947 m asl; . . .)".

Common Names

Banana Tree Dwelling Frog (original publication).

Distribution

Widely distributed at low elevation from central Panama and Colombia (except for the Pacific Coastal plain, southeast of a line from eastern Arauca to southern Meta and thence to Casanare and northern Huila), in Venezuela north of the Orinoco River (states of Anzoátegui, Apure, Aragua, Barinas, Carabobo, Cojedes, Distrito Capital, Lara, Mérida, Miranda, Portuguesa, Sucre, Táchira, Trujillo, Vargas, Yaracuy, and Zulia), and onto the islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela

Comment

External morphology, molecular markers, and advertisement call detailed in the original publication, where this species was differentiated out of Boana xerophylla, placed in the Boana faber group, and literature reviewed to denote previous misidentifications. Kenny, 1969, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 29: 38–40, and Murphy, 1997, Amph. Rept. Trinidad Tobago: 66–67, provided accounts for the Trinidad and Tobago populations (as Hyla crepitans). Lynch and Suárez-Mayorga, 2001, Caldasia, 23: 491–507, discussed the Colombian range of the species (as Hyla crepitans). Ovalle-Pacheco, Camacho-Rozo, and Arroyo, 2019, Check List, 15: 396, reported the species (as Boana xerophylla) from Boyacá, Colombia, and commented on the range in Colombia. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 232–235, provided a brief summary of natural history for the species of Hypsiboas in Central America and provided a range map and photograph for this species, as Hypsiboas crepitans. Señaris and Rojas-Runjaic, 2020, in Rull and Carnaval (eds.), Neotrop. Divers. Patterns Process.: 571–632, commented on range and conservation status (as Boana xerophylla) in the Venezuelan Guayana. See comment under Boana xerophylla for access to literature that may address this species prior to its recognition separate from Boana xerophylla.

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