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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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Dendropsophus bipunctatus (Spix, 1824)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Dendropsophus > Species: Dendropsophus bipunctatus

Hyla bipunctata Spix, 1824, Animal. Nova Spec. Nov. Test. Ran. Brasil.: 36. Type(s): Not designated but including animal figured in pl. 9, fig. 3, of the original publication; syntypes in ZSM including ZSM 2497/0 (2 specimens), lost, according to Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 368, and confirmed by Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 166. Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 37, reported 4 syntypes in error. Type locality: "Provincia Bahiae", Brazil.

Scinax bipunctatus — Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 201, by implication.

Hyla capistrata Reuss, 1833, Mus. Senckenb., 1: 58. Holotype: Animal figured in plate 3, figure 4, in the original publication, presumably originally deposited in the SMF. Type locality: "Brasilien". Tentatively considered synonymous by Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 565. Synonymy of Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 214.

Hyla pumila Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 565. Holotype: MNHNP 4802 according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 23. Type locality: "Brésil". Considered possibly synonymous with Hyla bipunctata Spix, and Hyla capistrata Reuss, in the original publication, and by Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 212.

Hylella tenera Reinhardt and Lütken, 1862 "1861", Vidensk. Medd. Dansk Naturhist. Foren., Ser. 2, 3: 200. Holotype: ZMUC 1438, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 38. Type locality: "Lagoa Santa", Minas Gerais, Brazil (in error according to Bokermann, 1968, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 28: 328, who also made the synonymy.

Scinax bipunctata — Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 214.

Hyla tenera — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 287.

Hyla bipunctata bipunctata — Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 101.

Dendropsophus bipunctatus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 92.

Common Names

Two-spotted Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54).

Distribution

Coastal region of eastern Brazil from eastern Bahia to extreme western Rio de Janeiro and eastern Minas Gerais.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 46, provided a brief account and photo. In the Dendropsophus microcephalus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91-92. Pereira Silva, Neves, Hote, Santana, and Feio, 2016, Check List, 12(5: 1977): 1–13, mapped the known range. Call described by Abrunhosa, Wogel, and Pombal, 2001, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 472: 1–12. In the Dendropsophus microcephalus group of Orrico, Grant, Faivovich, Rivera-Correa, Rada, Lyra, Cassini, Valdujo, Schargel, Machado, Wheeler, Barrio-Amorós, Loebmann, Moravec, Zina, Solé, Sturaro, Peloso, Suárez, and Haddad, 2021, Cladistics, 37: 73–105. Souza, Melo, Peixoto, Travenzoli, Feio, and Dergam, 2024, Cytogenet. Genome Res., 163: 317–326, reported the karyotype and mapped CA and CAT microsatellite sites as part of a discussion of evolution of repetitive DNA organization within Hylidae.

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