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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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Sarcohyla arborescandens (Taylor, 1939)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Sarcohyla > Species: Sarcohyla arborescandens

Hyla arborescandens Taylor, 1939 "1938", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 25: 388. Holotype: UIMNH 25045 (formerly EHT 3135), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 33. Type locality: "on mountainside about 3 km. southwest of Acultzingo, Veracruz", Mexico.

Hyla forbesi Taylor, 1940 "1939", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 26: 513. Holotype: EHT-HMS 22276, by original designation; now UIMNH 25048 according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 33. Type locality: "on a mountain three miles southwest of Acultzingo, Veracruz", Mexico. Synonymy by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 380.

Plectrohyla arborescandens — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105.

Sarcohyla arborescandens — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 18.

English Names

Lesser Bromeliad Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 22; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 19).

Distribution

Elevations of 1800-3100 m in the Sierra Madre Oriental in San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, Puebla, Tlaxcala, and western Veracruz, Mexico.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the Plectrohyla bistincta group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105. Formerly in the Hyla miotympanum group of Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 380-384, and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 919-921. See comment under Plectrohyla cyclada. Urbina-Cardona and Loyola, 2008, Tropical Conserv. Sci., 1: 417–445, modeled the distribution. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 267. Kaplan and Heimes, 2011, J. Herpetol., 45: 463-464, reported on the larva and rejected the identification (including that it is a member of Plectrohyla) of the larva associated with this species by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 921. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2013, Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí: 55-56, provided an account for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. 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: 375–376, provided a brief account and map for Hidalgo, Mexico.

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