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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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Scarthyla goinorum (Bokermann, 1962)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Scarthyla > Species: Scarthyla goinorum

Hyla goinorum Bokermann, 1962, Neotropica, 8: 86. Holotype: WCAB 1401, by original designation; now in MZUSP. Type locality: "Tarauacá, Estado de Acre, Brasil".

Ololygon goinorum — Fouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977, J. Herpetol., 11: 393.

Scarthyla ostinodactyla Duellman and de Sá, 1988, Tropical Zool., 1: 119. Holotype: KU 205756, by original designation. Type locality: "Reserva Cuzco Amazónico, 15 km E Puerto Maldonado (12° 33′ S, 69° 03′ W, 200 m), Departamento Madre de Dios, Peru". Synonymy by De la Riva, 2000, Amphibia-Reptilia, 21: 495.

Scinax goinorum — Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 22.

Scarthyla goinorum — De la Riva, 2000, Amphibia-Reptilia, 21: 495.

Common Names

Tarauaca Snouted Treefrog (Scinax goinorum: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 64).

Madre de Dios Treefrog (Scarthyla ostinodactyla [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 63).

Distribution

Upper Amazon Basin, from extreme northern Bolivia to the Iquitos region of northeastern Peru, as well as in adjacent Colombia, Acre (Brazil) and down the valley of the Amazon to Amapá and Pará, Brazil, and to extreme northeastern French Guiana.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Peru

Comment

Scinax goinorum was included in the Scinax staufferi group by Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 22; transferred to Scarthyla as a senior synonym of Scarthyla ostinodactyla by De la Riva, 2000, Amphibia-Reptilia, 21: 495 Rodríguez and Duellman, 1994, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 22: 47–48, provided a brief account for the Iquitos region of northeastern Peru as Scarthyla ostinodactyla. Duellman, 2005, Cusco Amazonico: 235–237, provided an account (adult and larval morphology, description of the call, life history). Lynch, 2005, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 29: 581-588, provided a specific locality for the vicinity of Leticia, Colombia. Gascon, 1994, Herpetol. Rev., 25: 162, provided a number of localities from Amazonas, Brazil. França and Venâncio, 2010, Biotemas, 23: 71–84, provided a record for the municipality of Boca do Acre, Amazonas, with a brief discussion of the range. Bernarde, Machado, and Turci, 2011, Biota Neotrop., 11: 117–144, reported specimens from Reserva Extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade, Acre, Brazil. Lynch and Suárez-Mayorga, 2011, Caldasia, 33: 235–270, illustrated the tadpole and included the species in a key to the tadpoles of Amazonian Colombia. Telles, Carvalho, Gordo, Kaefer, Fonte, and Menin, 2017, Herpetozoa, Wien, 30: 88–92, provided new records for Amazonas and Pará, Brazil, and provided a dot map for the species. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 192–193. Metcalf, Marsh, Torres Pacaya, Graham, and Gunnels, 2020, Herpetol. Notes, 13: 753–767, reported the species from the Santa Cruz Forest Reserve, Loreto, northeastern Peru. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 96–130, reported on distribution, literature, and conservation status for Amapá, Brazil. Schiesari, Rossa-Feres, Menin, and Hödl, 2022, Zootaxa, 5223: 67–68, detailed larval morphology and natural history. Crnobrna, Santa-Cruz Farfan, Gallegos, López-Rojas, Llanqui, Panduro Pisco, and Kelsen Arbaiza, 2023, Check List, 19: 445, provided a record from Ucayali Department, central-eastern Peru. Premel, Villette, Ferrieux, and Piolain, 2024, Check List, 20: 1004–1007, provided a record from municipality of Ouanary, in the extreme northeastern part of French Guiana, and provided a dot map of the species.

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