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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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ƒEcnomiohyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Ecnomiohyla

12 species

Ecnomiohyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 100. Type species: Hypsiboas miliarius Cope, 1886, by original designation.

English Names

Marvelous Frogs (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 12).

Fringe-limbed Treefrogs (Mendelson, Eichenbaum, and Campbell, 2015, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 10: 187).

Distribution

Wet forested highlands of southern Mexico through Central America to Colombia.

Comment

Ecnomiohyla is formed from the former Hyla tuberculosa group, excluding Hyla dendrophasma (now Ptychohyla dendrophasma), and a fragment of the former Hyla miotympanum group according to the original publication. In the Hylini of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 89, suggested that Ecnomiohyla may not be monophyletic, as did Wiens, Kuczynski, Hua, and Moen, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 5555: 871–882. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543–583, but seemingly excluding the rhodopsin data from Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294, suggested that Ecnomiohyla is not monophyletic. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 222–226, provided a brief summary of natural history for the species of Central America, compared with with other species of hylids from that region, and provided range maps and photographs. Batista, Hertz, Mebert, Köhler, Lotzkat, Ponce, and Veselý, 2014, Zootaxa, 3826: 449–474, provided a molecular tree of the species. Mendelson, Eichenbaum, and Campbell, 2015, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 10: 187–194, reviewed the species of Nuclear Central America. Faivovich, Pereyra, Luna, Hertz, Blotto, Vásquez-Almazán, McCranie, Sánchez, Baêta, Araujo-Vieira, Köhler, Kubicki, Campbell, Frost, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2018, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 13: 11–13, discussed the monophyly of the Ecnomiohyla fimbrimembra group (Ecnomiohyla bailarina, Ecnomiohyla fimbrimembra, and Ecnomiohyla rabborum), but suggested that Ecnomiohyla echinata, Ecnomiohyla salvaje, and Ecnomiohyla valancifer should not be assigned to any species group.

Contained taxa (12 sp.):

Ecnomiohyla bailarina Batista, Hertz, Mebert, Köhler, Lotzkat, Ponce, and Vesely, 2014

Ecnomiohyla echinata (Duellman, 1961)

Ecnomiohyla fimbrimembra (Taylor, 1948)

Ecnomiohyla miliaria (Cope, 1886)

Ecnomiohyla minera (Wilson, McCranie, and Williams, 1985)

Ecnomiohyla phantasmagoria (Dunn, 1943)

Ecnomiohyla rabborum Mendelson, Savage, Griffith, Ross, Kubicki, and Gagliardo, 2008

Ecnomiohyla salvaje (Wilson, McCranie, and Williams, 1985)

Ecnomiohyla sukia Savage and Kubicki, 2010

Ecnomiohyla thysanota (Duellman, 1966)

Ecnomiohyla valancifer (Firschein and Smith, 1956)

Ecnomiohyla veraguensis Batista, Hertz, Mebert, Köhler, Lotzkat, Ponce, and Vesely, 2014

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