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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.
* = "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 cerradensis (Napoli and Caramaschi, 1998)

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

Hyla cerradensis Napoli and Caramaschi, 1998, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 391: 4. Holotype: ZUEC 6733, by original designation. Type locality: "BRASIL, MATO GROSSO DO SUL, Municipio de Ribas do Rio Pardo (ca. 20° 26′ S, 53° 45′ W, 369 m de altitude)".

Hyla rhea Napoli and Caramaschi, 1999, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 407: 5. Holotype: MNRJ 9104, by original designation. Type locality: "Brazil—São Paulo, Pirassununga, Cachoeira de Emas (approximately, 21° 59′ S, 47° 25′ W, 627 m above sea level)". Synonymy by Nakamura, Orrico, Silva, Lyra, and Grant, 2025, J. Vert. Biol., Prague, 74(24112):

Hyla jimi Napoli and Caramaschi, 1999, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 407: 2. Holotype: MNRJ 21980, by original designation. Type locality: "Brazil—São Paulo, Botucatu (approximately, 22° 53′ S, 48° 26′ W, 805 m above sea level)". Synonymy by Nakamura, Orrico, Silva, Lyra, and Grant, 2025, J. Vert. Biol., Prague, 74(24112):

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

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

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

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Distributed throughout the Brazilian Cerrado in the Distrito Federal, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, and São Paulo, as well as east-central Paraguay in the provinces of Amambay, Canindeyú, and San Pedro.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, Paraguay

Comment

In the Hyla rubicundula group, close to Hyla tritaeniata according to the original publication. In the Dendropsophus microcephalus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91-92. 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. In the Dendropsophus rubicundulus clade of the Dendropsophus microcephalus group of Whitcher, Orrico, Ron, Lyra, Cassini, Ferreira, Nakamura, Peloso, Rada, Rivera-Correa, Sturaro, Valdujo, Haddad, Grant, Faivovich, Lemmon, and Lemmon, 2025, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 204 (108275): 1–18. See detailed discussion by Nakamura, Orrico, Silva, Lyra, and Grant, 2025, J. Vert. Biol., Prague, 74(24112): 1–18.

Former comment under Dendropsophus jimi: In the Hyla rubicundula group, Hyla tritaeniata complex according to the original publication. Martins and Jim, 2004, Brazil. J. Biol., 64: 645–654, reported on the advertisement call. In the Dendropsophus microcephalus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91-92. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 7, reported the species from Amambay Province, east-central Paraguay, which suggests a much wider distribution in the Atlantic forest than previously expected. Weiler, Núñez, Airaldi, Lavilla, Peris, and Baldo, 2013, Anf. Paraguay: 56, provided a brief account, image, and dot map for Paraguay. De Mello, Rodrigues, Rocha, and Brandão, 2018, North-West. J. Zool., Romania, 14: 71–75, discussed the correlation of morphology and call site selection and reported the species from Brasilia, Brazil. Neves, Yves, Pereira Silva, Alves, Vasques, Coelho, and Silva, 2019, Herpetozoa, Wien, 32: 113–123, provided habitat information and a record for western Minas Gerais, Brazil. Vaz-Silva, Maciel, Nomura, Morais, Guerra Batista, Santos, Andrade, Oliveira, Brandão, and Bastos, 2020, Guia Ident. Anf. Goiás e Dist. Fed. Brasil Central: 70, provided an account. 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. Alves-Ferreira, Paixão, and Nomura, 2021, Biota Neotrop., 21 (4: e20201178): 1–11, reported on larval morphology of (as Dendropsophus sp.) of this species or one closely related. In the Dendropsophus rubicundulus clade of the Dendropsophus microcephalus group of Whitcher, Orrico, Ron, Lyra, Cassini, Ferreira, Nakamura, Peloso, Rada, Rivera-Correa, Sturaro, Valdujo, Haddad, Grant, Faivovich, Lemmon, and Lemmon, 2025, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 204 (108275): 1–18.

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