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

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

Hyla minera Wilson, McCranie, and Williams, 1985, Herpetologica, 41: 145. Holotype: MVZ 130790, by original designation. Type locality: "4.2 km (by road) S Purulhá, 1760 m elevation, Depto. Baja Verapaz, Guatemala".

Ecnomiohyla minera — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 100.

Common Names

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

Distribution

Known in Guatemala at elevations of 701–1830 m including cloud forests in the Sierra de las Minas, Baja Verapaz, and the Caribbean slope of the Sierra de las Cuchumatanes, Huehuetenango, as well as from highland rainforest habitat in the Sierra de Santa Cruz, Izabal, Guatemala; southern part of the Maya Mountains in the Toledo District, Belize, in highland rainforest; also reported from northeast-central Chiapas, Mexico, in the municipality of Ocosingo.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Belize, Guatemala, Mexico

Comment

Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 83, suggested that Hyla minera was a synonym of Hyla valancifer; subsequently Campbell, Smith, and Acevedo, 2000, Herpetologica, 56: 250–256, suggested that Hyla minera and Hyla valancifer were sister species on either side of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. In the Hyla miliaria group; see Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 893–895, Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 97–100, and Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 105–107 (as Hyla valancifer) for account. See comments by McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 279–280, on the controversy surrounding the distinctiveness of this taxon from Hyla valancifer. See illustration, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 245. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 222–226, provided a brief summary of natural history for the species of Ecnomiohyla in Central America and provided a range map and photograph for this species. Vásquez-Almazán, Herman, and López, 2014, Herpetol. Rev., 45: 86, provided a record for the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, Huehuetenango, Guatemala, extending the range considerably westerward. See account by Mendelson, Eichenbaum, and Campbell, 2015, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 10: 190–191. Barrio-Amorós, Sánchez-Ochoa, Akcali, Flores-Villela, Palacios-Aguilar, and Pérez-Mendoza, 2024, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 7: 50–54, reported the species from Nahá (16.974467° N, 91.572017° W, 1,000 m a.s.l.), municipality of Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico, and provided a dot map of the range.

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