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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 crassa (Brocchi, 1877)

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

Cauphias crassus Brocchi, 1877, Bull. Soc. Philomath., Paris, Ser. 7, 1: 130. Holotype: MNHNP 6331, according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 120; Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 24. Type locality: "Mexique".

Cauphias crassum — Brocchi, 1882, Miss. Scient. Mex. Amer. Centr., Rech. Zool., 3(2, livr. 2): 64.

Hyla crassa — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 396. Smith and Taylor, 1948, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 194: 86.

Hypsiboas crassus — Cope, 1887, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 32: 14.

Hyla robustofemora Taylor, 1940 "1939", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 26: 389. Holotype: EHT-HMS 16314, by original designation; now UIMNH 25050 according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 48. Type locality: "Cerro San Felipe about ten miles north of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, at an elevation of between seven and eight thousand feet", Mexico. Synonymy by Stuart IN Smith and Taylor, 1948, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 194: 86 (although this synonymy simultaneously rejected by Smith and Taylor) and by Duellman, 1964, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 15: 487. Taylor, 1949, Am. Mus. Novit., 1437: 1-21, had rejected the synonymy.

Plectrohyla crassa — Hartweg, 1941, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 437: 1; Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105.

Hyla crassa — Taylor, 1949, Am. Mus. Novit., 1437: 1-21.

Hyla bogertae Straughan and Wright, 1969, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 169: 1. Holotype: LACM 44400, by original designation. Type locality: "tributary of the Río Atoyac, below Vivero El Tapanal at 8,700 ft. (2652 m), one mile (1.6 km) south of La Cofradia, district of Sola de Vega, Oaxaca, Mexico". Synonymy by Toal and Mendelson, 1995, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 174: 1.

Sarcohyla crassa — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 18. Unstudied but the type species of Sarcohyla.

English Names

Aquatic Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 55; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 19).

Bogert's Aquatic Treefrog (Hyla bogertae: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 22).

Distribution

Cloud forest at elevations of 1543-2300 m in the Sierra Mixes and Sierra Juarez and from pine-fir forest at 2652 m in the Sierra Madre del Sur, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

See Caldwell, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 28: 1-37, Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 479-482 (as both Hyla crassa and Hyla bogertae; and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 973-976. In the Plectrohyla bistincta group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 105. 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: 269.

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