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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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Osteocephalus mimeticus (Melin, 1941)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Osteocephalus > Species: Osteocephalus mimeticus

Hyla mimetica Melin, 1941, Göteborgs K. Vetensk. Vitterh. Samh. Handl., Ser. B, 1: 24. Syntypes: NHMG 469 (2 specimens), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 107; the one corresponding to Fig. 10a in the original publication was designated lectotype by Jungfer, 2010, Zootaxa, 2407: 39. Type locality: "Roque, [San Martín Department,] Peru".

Hyla elkejungigerae Henle, 1981, Amphibia-Reptilia, 2: 123. Holotype: ZFMK 33352, by original designation. Type locality: "Peru: El Boqueron, ca. 1000 m NN". Synonymy by Jungfer, 2010, Zootaxa, 2407: 39.

Osteocephalus elkejungingerae — Henle, 1992, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 43: 112.

Osteocephalus mimeticus — Jungfer, 2010, Zootaxa, 2407: 39.

Common Names

Henle's Slender-legged Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).

Distribution

Andean foothills from about 260 to 1650 m elevation from the Huancabamba Depression southward from Departamento San Martín, Peru, at least to Departamento Cuzco, Peru (see comment); also reported from Pilon Lajas, Departamento Beni, Bolivia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Peru

Comment

See account by Jungfer, 2010, Zootaxa, 2407: 39-41, who removed Hyla mimetica from the synonymy of Dendropsophus triangulum, where it had been placed by Duellman, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 27: 19. In the Osteocephalus buckleyi species group of Jungfer, Faivovich, Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, Lyra, Berneck, Iglesias, Kok, MacCulloch, Rodrigues, Verdade, Torres-Gastello, Chaparro, Valdujo, Reichle, Moravec, Gvoždík, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Ernst, De la Riva, Means, Lima, Señaris, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2013, Zool. Scripta, 42: 351–380. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 178–179. Venegas, García Ayachi, Toral, Malqui, and Ron, 2023, Evol. Syst., 7: 237–251, provided molecular evidence that this nominal species is a complex, with the Cusco region harboring an unnamed lineage which is the sister taxon of Osteocephalus mimeticus sensu stricto + Osteocephalus vasquezi.

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