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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 staufferi (Cope, 1865)

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

Hyla staufferi Cope, 1865, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 17: 195. Holotype: USNM 15317 according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 173 Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 60. Type locality: "Orizava [= Orizaba, Veracruz], Mexico".

Hyla eximia staufferi — Cope, 1887, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 32: 14.

Hyliola staufferi — Mocquard, 1899, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 4, 1: 339.

Hyla culex Dunn and Emlen, 1932, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 84: 24. Holotype: MCZ 16098, by original designation. Type locality: "Tela, [Departamento Atlantidad,] Honduras". Synonymy by Taylor, 1952, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 35: 863; Duellman, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 274.

Hyla staufferi staufferi — León, 1969, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 18: 540.

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

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

Common Names

Stauffer's Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 64); Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 104; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 109).

Stauffer's Longnosed Treefrog (Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 85).

Stauffer's Long-nosed Treefrog (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 22).

Stauffer's Treefrog (Scinax staufferi stafferi: Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 22).

Middle American Snouted Treefrog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 14).

Distribution

Savannas and subhumid forest in the lowlands to moderate elevations from southern Tamaulipas and Queretaro, Mexico, southward to Nicaragua on the Caribbean versant and from Guerrero, Mexico, to northwestern Costa Rica on the Pacific; disjunctly on the Pacific lowlands of western to central Panama.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama

Comment

For discussion (as Hyla staufferi staufferi) see Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 195–199. In the Scinax ruber clade of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 96. Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 104–106, and Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 109–111, provided an account. Lips and Savage, 1996, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 109: 17–26, included this species (as Hyla staufferi) in a key to the tadpoles found in Costa Rica. See accounts by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 347–348, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 325–331. Köhler, Veselý, and Greenbaum, 2005 "2006", Amph. Rept. El Salvador: 48–50, provided an account (for El Salvador) and a color photograph. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 38, summarized the departmental distribution in Honduras. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189–202, regarding Nicaraguan populations. Mata-Silva, Ramírez-Bautista, and Johnson, 2010, Herpetol. Rev., 41: 508, provided a record from Oaxaca, Mexico, and commented on the range. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2013, Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí: 56-57, provided an account for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. 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.. Sunyer, Martínez-Fonseca, Salazar-Saavedra, Galindo-Uribe, and Obando, 2014, Mesoam. Herpetol., 1: 170, provided a record for the department of León, Nicaragua. 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: 379–380, provided a brief account and map for Hidalgo, Mexico. In the Scinax cruentomma 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): 96 (see comment under Hylinae). Tepos-Ramírez, Garduño-Fonseca, Peralta-Robles, García-Rubio, and Cervantes Jiménez, 2023, Check List, 19: 269–292, discussed the distribution and conservation status of the species in Queretaro, Mexico.

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