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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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Scinax albicans Bokermann, 1967

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Scinax > Species: Scinax albicans

Hyla albicans Bokermann, 1967, Neotropica, 13: 64. Holotype: WCAB 19519, by original designation; now in MZUSP. Type locality: "próxima a los 1000 m de altura en el Parque Nacional da Serra dos Orgãos, río Beija Flor, Terezopolis, estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil".

Hyla catharinae opalina Lutz, 1968, Pearce-Sellards Ser., 12: 6. Syntypes: MNRJ 4037–38, by original designation. Type locality: "Serra dos Orgaos at Teresopolis, state of Rio de Janeiro (22° 26′ 12″ S.; 42° 52′ 42″ W.), 800-900 meters elevation", Brazil. Synonymy by Carvalho-e-Silva and Carvalho-e-Silva, 1994, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 54: 56–57; Pombal and Bastos, 1996, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 371: 1.

Ololygon opalina — Heyer, 1980, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 93: 657.

Ololygon albicans — Peixoto and Weygoldt, 1987, Senckenb. Biol., 68: 8; Carvalho-e-Silva and Carvalho-e-Silva, 1994, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 54: 55-62; Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 26.

Scinax albicans — Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 12, 21.

Scinax opalina — Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 23.

Scinax opalinus — Köhler and Böhme, 1996, Rev. Fr. Aquar. Herpetol., 23: 139.

English Names

Teresopolis Snouted Treefrog (Scinax albicans: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 63).

Opal Snouted Treefrog (Scinax opalinus [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 64).

Distribution

Serra do Mar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Comment

For discussion of species status, see Heyer, 1980, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 93: 657. Carvalho-e-Silva and Carvalho-e-Silva, 1994, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 54: 55–62, reported on larval morphology. Pombal, Bastos, and Haddad, 1995, Naturalia, São Paulo, 20: 213–225, reported on the advertisement call. Pombal and Bastos, 1996, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 371: 2. In the Scinax catharinae group, according to Pombal and Gordo, 1991, Mem. Inst. Butantan, São Paulo, 53: 135–144. In the Scinax catharinae clade, Scinax catharinae group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 97.

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