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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 marmoratus (Laurenti, 1768)

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

Bufo marmoratus Laurenti, 1768, Spec. Med. Exhib. Synops. Rept.: 29. Type(s): By indication frog(s) illustrated as Rana surinamensis by Seba, 1734, Locuplet. Rer. Nat. Thesaur. Descript. Icon. Exp. Univ. Phys. Hist., 1: pl. 71, figs. 4, 5. Type locality: "Surinami".

Buffo marmoratus — Lacépède, 1788, Hist. Nat. Quadrup. Ovip. Serpens, 16mo ed., 2: 375, 461; Lacépède, 1788, Hist. Nat. Quadrup. Ovip. Serpens, Quarto ed., 1: table after page 618, and referencing account on page 607. Rejected as a nonbinominal work by Opinion 2104, Anonymous, 2005, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 62: 55.

Hyla marmorata — Daudin, 1800, Hist. Nat. Quad. Ovip., Livr. 2: 23; Latreille in Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801 "An. X", Hist. Nat. Rept., 2: 184; Daudin, 1802 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 34.

Calamita marmoratus — Merrem, 1820, Tent. Syst. Amph.: 174.

Lophopus marmoratus — Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 73.

Hyla (Lophopus) marmorata — Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 30.

Hyla marmorata marmorata — Rivero, 1961, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 126: 126.

Quinzhyla marmorata — Bauer, 2005, in Ananjeva and Tsinenko (eds.), Herpetol. Petropolitana: 15.

Dendropsophus marmoratus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91.

Common Names

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

Marbled Toad (Lacépède, 1802, Nat. Hist. Ovip. Quadruped. (Kerr transl.): 318).

Distribution

Amazon Basin in Brazil (Acre, Rondônia, Pará, and Mato Grosso), Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia; southern Venezuela through Guyana and Suriname.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

Comment

For account see Bokermann, 1964, Senckenb. Biol., 45: 243–254. Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 154–155, provided a brief account including characterization of call and tadpole. Zimmerman, 1983, Herpetologica, 39: 235–246, and Zimmerman and Bogart, 1984, Acta Amazonica, 14: 473–520, reported on vocalization. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 146–147, provided a brief account and photo. First record for Bolivia by Köhler, 1995, Herpetofauna, Weinstadt, 17: 6. Duellman, 2005, Cusco Amazonico: 218–220, provided an account (adult and larval morphology, description of the call, life history). In the Dendropsophus marmoratus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park: 159–160, provided an account. Gomes and Peixoto, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 445, provided a record from Mato Grosso, Brazil, and commented on the Brazilian component of the range. Lynch and Suárez-Mayorga, 2011, Caldasia, 33: 235–270, illustrated the tadpole and included the species in a key to the tadpoles of Amazonian Colombia. See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 118–119. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 400–401, for brief account and records for Guyana. Melo-Sampaio and Souza, 2015, Check List, 11 (Art. 1681): 1–6, provided records from Acre, Brazil. Teixeira, Seger, Targueta, Orrico, and Lourenço, 2016, Comp. Cytogenet., 10: 753–767, reported on the karyotype as compared to other members of the Dendropsophus marmoratus group. Zimmerman, 1983, Herpetologica, 39: 235–246, reported on advertisement call, as Hyla marmorata. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 74, for comments on range, systematics, and literature. Señaris 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. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 138–139. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. In the Dendropsophus marmoratus 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. Camper, Torres-Carvajal, Ron, Nilsson, Arteaga-Navarro, Knowles, and Arbogast, 2021, Check List, 17: 729–751, provided a record from Wildsumaco Wildlife Sanctuary, Napo Province, Ecuador. Schiesari, Rossa-Feres, Menin, and Hödl, 2022, Zootaxa, 5223: 54–55, detailed larval and metamorph morphology and natural history. French Guiana record was discussed and rejected by Lescure, Dewynter, Frétey, Ineich, Ohler, Vidal, and De Massary, 2022, Bull. Soc. Herpetol. France, 181(5): 1–17. Gagliardi-Urrutia, García Dávila, Jaramillo-Martinez, Rojas-Padilla, Rios-Alva, Aguilar-Manihuari, Pérez-Peña, Castroviejo-Fisher, Simões, Estivals, Guillen Huaman, Castro Ruiz, Angulo Chávez, Mariac, Duponchelle, and Renno, 2022, Anf. Loreto: 102–103, provided a brief account, photograph, dot map, and genetic barcode for Loreto, Peru. Crnobrna, Santa-Cruz Farfan, Gallegos, López-Rojas, Llanqui, Panduro Pisco, and Kelsen Arbaiza, 2023, Check List, 19: 443, provided a record from Ucayali Department, central-eastern Peru.

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