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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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Plectrohyla guatemalensis Brocchi, 1877

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Plectrohyla > Species: Plectrohyla guatemalensis

Plectrohyla guatemalensis Brocchi, 1877, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 7, 1: 92. Syntypes: MNHNP 6332 (2 specimens), according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 119; Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 24. Type locality: "Pacicilla [= Patzicia, Departamento Chimaltenango] (Guatemala)".

Cauphias guatemalensis — Brocchi, 1877, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 7, 1: 129.

Hyla guatemalensis — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 396.

Plectrohyla guatemalensis — Bumzahem and Smith, 1954, Herpetologica, 10: 61.

Common Names

Guatemala Spikethumb Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 25; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 62; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 20).

Distribution

Humid pine-oak forest and cloud forest in the highlands of the Sierra Madre from southeastern Chiapas, Mexico, eastward through the central and southwestern highlands of Guatemala to northwestern El Salvador, the Sierra de Nombre de Dios in north-central Honduras, and the moutains of central Matagalpa Department, Nicaragua, 900 to 2800 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua

Comment

Possibly this nominal species conceals additional unrecognized taxa, according to Duellman and Campbell, 1992, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 181: 8. See comment under Plectrohyla psiloderma. See account (as including Plectrohyla acanthodes, Plectrohyla teuchestes, and Plectrohyla psiloderma) by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 580-583; see also accounts by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 1067-1070, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 298–302, who noted previous misidentifications and possibility of not-so-cryptic species. In the Plectrohyla guatemalensis group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105. Köhler, Veselý, and Greenbaum, 2005 "2006", Amph. Rept. El Salvador: 41–42, provided an account (for El Salvador) and a color photograph. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 38, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. 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: 270. Urbina-Cardona and Loyola, 2008, Tropical Conserv. Sci., 1: 417–445, modeled the distribution. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 246–255, provided a brief summary of natural history for the species of Plectrohyla in Central America and provided a range map and photograph for this species. Morán-Hidalgo and Ruballo-Marroquín, 2012, Rev. Biodivers. Neotrop., 2: 126–130, provided a record for the Departamento de Chalatenango, El Salvador. McCranie, 2017, Mesoam. Herpetol., 4: 399, provided a dot map for the species in Honduras. Señaris and Sunyer, 2024, Check List, 20: 721–727, reported specimens from Matagalpa Department, Nicaragua. Ballesteros, Díaz-Avalos, Hernández-Ordóñez, and Garro, 2024, Bull. Math. Biol., 86(97): 1–26, reported on distribution modeling.

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