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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 rhodopeplus (Günther, 1858)

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

Hyla rhodopepla Günther, 1858, Arch. Naturgesch., 24: 328. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.23.53 (formerly 1858.7.25.30) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 94. Type locality: "Anden von Ecuador".

Hyla rhodopepla — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 389.

Hyla aluminiata Andersson, 1906, Ark. Zool., 3(12): 16. Syntypes: NHRM 1953-56 (5 specimens; San Fermin), 1357-59 (3 specimens; Chaquimaya), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 93. Type locality: "San Fermin, [Departamento La Paz,] Bolivia", and "Chaquimayo, [Departamento Puno,] Peru". Synonymy by Duellman, 1972, Herpetologica, 28: 369.

Hyla rufopunctata Andersson, 1906, Ark. Zool., 3(12): 18. Holotype: NHRM 1960, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 94. Type locality: "Lagunillas, [Departamento La Paz,] Bolivia". Synonymy by Duellman, 1972, Herpetologica, 28: 369.

Hyla albida Melin, 1941, Göteborgs K. Vetensk. Vitterh. Samh. Handl., Ser. B, 1: 27. Syntypes: NHMG 471 (2 specimens). Type locality: "Roque, [Departamento San Martín,] Peru". Synonymy by Duellman, 1972, Herpetologica, 28: 369.

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

Common Names

Red-backed Swampfrog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxiii).

Ranita de Charco de Dorso Rojo (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxiii).

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

Distribution

Upper Amazon Basin from southern Colombia (Putumayo, Caqueta, and Amazonas) through Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil to Bolivia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Comment

See Duellman, 1972, Herpetologica, 28: 369–375, for account. Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65:159–161, provided a brief account including characterization of call and tadpole. Márquez, De la Riva, and Bosch, 1993, Biotropica, 25: 426–443, described the advertisement call. Duellman, 2005, Cusco Amazonico: 223–225, provided an account (adult and larval morphology, description of the call, life history). In the Dendropsophus microcephalus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 91–92. Bernarde, Machado, and Turci, 2011, Biota Neotrop., 11: 117–144, reported specimens from Reserva Extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade, Acre, Brazil. França and Venâncio, 2010, Biotemas, 23: 71–84, provided a record for the municipality of Boca do Acre, Amazonas, with a brief discussion of the range. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 144–145. 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 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. Parra-Olarte, Navarro-Morales, Velásquez-Valencia, and Ruiz-Valderrama, 2021, Cuad. Herpetol., 35: 357–360, reported new localities in the departments of Caquetá and Putumayo, Colombia. 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: 104–105, 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. In 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. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 389–392, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult and larval morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), conservation, and (on pp. 580–581) the advertisement calls of three populations.

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