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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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Smilisca phaeota (Cope, 1862)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Smilisca > Species: Smilisca phaeota

Hyla phaeota Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 358. Holotype: USNM 39899 (formerly 4347) according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 57. Type locality: "Turbo, [Intendencia de Chocó, Colombia,] New Granada".

Hyla baudini dolomedes Barbour, 1923, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 129: 11. Holotype: MCZ 8539, by original designation. Type locality: "Rio Esnápe, Sambú Valley, eastern Panama". Synonymy by Dunn, 1931, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 5: 413.

Hyla carinata Andersson, 1939 "1938", Ark. Zool., 30(23): 22. Syntypes: NHRM 1874 (3 specimens), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 42. Type locality: "San José. Tarraco", Bolivia. This locality considered erroneous by De la Riva, 1993, Herpetol. J., 3: 113–114, who discussed why the likely provenance was probably Chocoan Ecuador or Colombia, and placed this name in synonymy.

Smilisca phaeota phaeota — Smith, 1953, Herpetologica, 8: 150.

Smilisca phaeota — Starrett, 1960, Copeia, 1960: 303.

Common Names

New Granada Cross-banded Treefrog (Smilisca phaeota: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).

Tarraco Treefrog (Hyla carinata: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 54).

Central American Smilisca (Smilisca phaeota: Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 69).

Distribution

Caribbean lowlands of Central America from eastern Honduras, and Nicaragua to southeastern Costa Rica, eastern Panama, western and Magdalena Valley of Colombia, and western Ecuador.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama

Comment

Reviewed by Duellman, 1968, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 61: 1–2, and Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 603–607. See accounts by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 351–352, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 338–341. Lips and Savage, 1996, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 109: 17–26, included this species in a key to the tadpoles found in Costa Rica. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 39, detailed the departmental range in Honduras. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189–202, regarding Nicaraguan populations. Travers, Townsend, Sunyer, Obando, Wilson, and Nickerson, 2011, Herpetol. Rev., 42: 399, noted a new locality in Nicaragua (Jinotega). Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 265–268, provided a brief summary of natural history and identification key for the species of Smilisca 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 Boaco, Nicaragua. Palacio Baena, Muñoz Escobar, Gallo Delgado, and Rivera-Correa, 2006, Anfibios y Reptiles del Valle de Aburrá: 81–83, provided a brief account and photograph. Armijos-Ojeda, Székely, Székely, Cogǎlniceanu, Cisneros-Heredia, Ordóñez-Delgado, Escudero, and Espinosa, 2021, ZooKeys, 1063: 39, provided a dot map for western Ecuador. Gil-González, Londoño-Quiceno, Rojas-Rivera, and Gutiérrez-Cárdenas, 2022, Catal. Anf. Rept. Colombia, Medellín, 8: 69–92, provided a review, with special reference to Colombia, including discussions of morphology, advertisement call, natural history, photograph, and a range map for Colombia. Martínez-Fonseca, Holmes, Sunyer, Westeen, Grundler, Cerda, Fernández-Mena, Loza-Molina, Monagan, Nondorf, Pandelis, and Rabosky, 2024, Check List, 20: 73, provided and discussed a record from Asososca Lake–Momotombo, Department of León, western Nicaragua.

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