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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 elaeochroa (Cope, 1875)

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

Hyla elaeochroa Cope, 1875 "1876", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 8: 105. Syntypes: USNM 30688-90 (3 specimens); USNM 30689 designated lectotype by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 53. Type locality: "east foot of mountains near Sipurio," Cantón de Talamanca, Provincia Limón, Costa Rica. Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 108, commented on the type locality. Species name is a noun in apposition meaning olive skin.

Hyla quinquevittata Cope, 1886, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 23: 273. Holotype: USNM 14187 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 58. Type locality: "Nicaragua". Synonymy by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 859.

Hyla dulcensis Taylor, 1958, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 39: 37. Holotype: KU 32168, by original designation. Type locality: "Golfito, [Cantón de Golfito,] Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 92, commented on the type locality. Synonymy by Duellman, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 270, although .

Ololygon elaeochroa — Fouquette and Delahoussaye, 1977, J. Herpetol., 11: 392.

Scinax elaeochroa — Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 16, 21.

Scinax elaeochrous — Köhler and Böhme, 1996, Rev. Fr. Aquar. Herpetol., 23: 139. Treatment of the species name as an adjective.

Common Names

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

Olive Snouted Treefrog (Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 113).

Distribution

Caribbean lowlands from Nicaragua to western Panama; Pacific lowlands of Golfo Dulce region in Costa Rica and Panama, below 700 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama

Likely/Controversially Present: Colombia

Comment

For discussion see Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 188–193, and Savage and Heyer, 1969, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 16: 1–127. In the Scinax ruber clade, unassigned to group, of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 97. The species name is a noun in apposition and does not change endings in combination with a masculine generic name. Lips and Savage, 1996, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 109: 17–26, included this species (as Hyla elaeochroa) in a key to the tadpoles found in Costa Rica. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 345–347. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189–202, regarding Nicaraguan populations. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 262–264, provided a brief summary of natural history and identification key for the species of Scinax in Central America and provided a range map and photograph for this species. See discussion and revision by Ron, Duellman, Caminer, and Pazmiño, 2018, PLoS One, 13 (9: e0203169): 1–26, who discussed the systematics, call, and noted that records of Scinax elaeochroa from Nariño province, Colombia, most likely represent Scinax tsachila and that records to the north of there from western Colombia most likely refer to Scinax quinquefasciatus, Scinax tsachila, Scinax caprarius, or an unnamed member of the genus. In the Scinax elaeochroa group of Araujo-Vieira, Lourenço, Lacerda, Lyra, Blotto, Ron, Baldo, Pereyra, Suárez-Mayorga, Baêta, Ferreira, Barrio-Amorós, Borteiro, Brandão, Brasileiro, Donnelly, Dubeux, Köhler, Kolenc, Leite, Maciel, Nunes, Orrico, Peloso, Pezzuti, Reichle, Rojas-Runjaic, Silva, Sturaro, Langone, Garcia, Rodrigues, Frost, Wheeler, Grant, Pombal, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2023, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 27 (Special Issue): 94 (see comment under Hylinae). Martínez-Fonseca, Holmes, Sunyer, Westeen, Grundler, Cerda, Fernández-Mena, Loza-Molina, Monagan, Nondorf, Pandelis, and Rabosky, 2024, Check List, 20: 71, provided and discussed a record from Refugio Bartola, Departamento Río San Juan, Nicaragua.

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