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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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Phytotriades Jowers, Downieb, and Cohen, 2009

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

1 species

Phytotriades Jowers, Downieb, and Cohen, 2009, Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ., 43: 186. Type species: Amphodus auratus Boulenger, 1917, by original designation.

Common Names

Trinidad Golden Treefrogs (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 13).

Distribution

As for the single species.

Comment

The content of the taxon remains unelucidated. Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 1–240, placed this species in the Phyllodytes auratus group, along with Phyllodytes wuchereri, following Caramaschi, Peixoto, and Rodrigues, 2004, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 62: 185-191. Jowers, Downieb, and Cohen, 2009, Stud. Neotrop. Fauna Environ., 43: 186, did not address Phyllodytes wuchereri in their analysis, nor most of the putative members of Phyllodytes, so, although it is clear that "Phyllodytes" (sensu lato) is polyphyletic, it is not clear what the ultimate membership in either Phyllodytes or Phytotriades will be—DRF. These authors placed Phytotriades as the sister taxon of Argenteohyla. Wiens, Kuczynski, Hua, and Moen, 2010, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 5555: 871-882, considered the recognition of Phytotriades disinct from Phyllodytes premature on the basis of their parsimony analysis. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their molecular study, but seemingly excluding the rhodopsin data from Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294, suggested that Phytotriades auratus (their Phyllodytes auratus) is the sister taxon of Itapotihyla, rather than close to Phyllodytes luteolus. Blotto, Lyra, Cardoso, Rodrigues, Dias, Marciano, Vechio, Orrico, Brandão, Assis, Lantyer-Silva, Rutherford, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Solé, Baldo, Nunes, Cajade, Torres, Grant, Jungfer, Silva, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2021, Cladistics, 37: 36–72, discussed the instability of phylogenetic placement of this taxon. Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 441, recovered this taxon far from Phyllodytes in their overall tree.

Contained taxa (1 sp.):

Phytotriades auratus (Boulenger, 1917)

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