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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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Rheohyla miotympanum (Cope, 1863)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Rheohyla > Species: Rheohyla miotympanum

Hyla miotympanum Cope, 1863, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 15: 47. Syntypes: USNM 6311 and one with no number, now lost according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 170. Type locality: "Near Jalapa" and "Mirador", Veracruz, Mexico. Restricted to "Jalapa", Veracruz, Mexico by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 348.

Hyla microtis Peters, 1870 "1869", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1869: 880. Syntypes: ZMB 6657 (2 specimens), according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 172. Type locality: "wareren Gegenden Mexicos (Matamoros u. a. o.)" = warmer parts of Mexico (Matamoros and other areas; regarded as "probably [Izucar de] Matamoros, Puebla", Mexico by Smith and Taylor, 1948, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 194: 90. Synonymy by Peters, 1871, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1871: 651; Cope, 1877, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 17: 87; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 400.

Hyla darlingi Smith, Smith, and Werler, 1952, Texas J. Sci., 4: 254. Holotype: UIMNH 21903, by original designation. Type locality: "Xico, Veracruz, . . . on a hillside from under a banana plant leaf", Mexico. Synonymy by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 372.

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

Rheohyla miotympanum — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 19.

Common Names

Small-eard Hyla (Smith, 1945, Ward’s Nat. Sci. Bull., 1: 3).

Small-eared Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 23; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 56; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 12).

Distribution

Highlands of Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas (Sierra Madre Oriental) to Guanajuato (Sierra Santa Rosa), Queretaro, Hidalgo, and Oaxaca, adjacent Veracruz, and central Chiapas in eastern and central Mexico, 1000 to 2282 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

See Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 372–380, and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 913–915. Mendoza-Quijano, Mejenes-López, Reynoso-Rosales, Estrada-Hernandez, and Rodriguez-Blanco, 2001, Anal. Inst. Biol., Univ. Nac. Aut. Mexico, Ser. Zool., 72: 233–243, provided the record from Guanajuato. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 615. Savage and Kubicki, 2010, Zootaxa, 2719: 22, regarded the assignment of this species to Ecnomiohyla as problematic as it lacks the morphological synapmorphies they associate with application of the generic name. Garza-Tobón and Lemos-Espinal: 103, provided the first record for Coahuila at 20 km E of San Antonio de las Alanzas. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2013, Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí: 51–52, provided an account for San Luis Potosí, Mexico 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. Lemos-Espinal and Smith, 2015, Check List, 11(1642): 1–11, noted the occurrence of the species in Hidalgo, Mexico, without providing a specific locality. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2016, Amph. Rept. Hidalgo: 370–371, provided a brief account and map for Hidalgo, Mexico. Leyte-Manrique, Mata-Silva, Báez-Montes, Fucsko, De Santis, García-Padilla, Rocha, Johnson, Porras, and Wilson, 2022, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 16: 133–180, discussed the range and conservation status in Guanajuato, Mexico. Terán-Juarez, García-Padilla, Leyto-Delgado, Herrera-Enríquez, Flores-Torres, Herrero-Patiño, Pérez-Hernández, and Niño-Maldonado, 2023, Herpetol. Rev., 54: 247, provided records from the Municipalities of Aldama, Casas, Mainero and Victoria in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Tepos-Ramírez, Garduño-Fonseca, Peralta-Robles, García-Rubio, and Cervantes Jiménez, 2023, Check List, 19: 269–292, discussed the distribution and conservation status of the species in Queretaro, Mexico.

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