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* = "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.
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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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Sphaenorhynchus platycephalus (Werner, 1894)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Sphaenorhynchus > Species: Sphaenorhynchus platycephalus

Hylopsis platycephalus Werner, 1894, Zool. Anz., 17: 156. Holotype: Not stated; NHMW 33142 (formerly ZIUW 90), according to Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 26. KU 169753 designated neotype by Lynch, 1981, J. Herpetol., 15: 287; this being in error as the type still exists and is not a Centrolenella but a Sphaenorhynchus according to Harding, 1991, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 103: 413-418 (Neotype being an example of Centrolenella savagei). Type locality: "Süd-Amerika".

Hyla (Sphoenohyla) orophila Lutz and Lutz, 1938, An. Acad. Brasil. Cienc., 10: 178. Holotype: AL-MNRJ 3309, by original designation. Type locality: "Serra do Mar, 4 km. outside Petropolis, in canal leading to the dam at Quitandinha", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Synonymy by Araujo-Vieira, Caramaschi, Grillitsch, Grant, and Faivovich, 2018, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 13: 73.

Hyla aurantiaca orophila — Cochran, 1955 "1954", Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 206: 184.

Sphoenohyla orophila — Goin, 1957, Caldasia, 8: 22.

Dryomelictes orophila — Goin, 1961, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 36: 9.

Hyla orophila — Kenny, 1969, Stud. Fauna Curaçao and other Caribb. Is., 29: 50. Apparently based on misidentified specimens from Trinidad.

Sphaenorhynchus orophilus — Rivero, 1969, Copeia, 1969: 702.

Sphaenorhynchus platycephalus — Harding, 1991, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 103: 415.

Common Names

South American Lime Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).

Lutz's Lime Treefrog (Sphaenorhynchus orophilus [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).

Distribution

Serra do Mar and Serra da Mantiqueira in the states of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo ,and Minas Gerais States, in southeastern Brazil, above 1,000 m elevation

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

See discussion of the status of this species in Harding, 1991, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 103: 413-418. The designation of a neotype for this nominal species (Lynch, 1981, J. Herpetol., 15: 283-291) was in error; see Centrolenella savagei (Centrolenidae). See account as Sphaenorhycnhus orophilus by Heyer, Rand, Cruz, Peixoto, and Nelson, 1990, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 31: 286-287. Cruz, Feio, and Caramaschi, 2009, Anf. Ibitipoca: 110-111, provided photographs and a brief account (as Sphaenorhynchus orophilus) for Parque Estadual do Ibitipoca, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Araujo-Vieira, Caramaschi, Grillitsch, Grant, and Faivovich, 2018, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 13: 73–84, discussed the identity of this species. Pereira Silva, Ceron, Silva, and Santana, 2022, Ecol. Evol., 12(e8754): 1–15, reported on phylogenetic relationships and biogeography and provided a polygon map of the species. Manzano, Takeno, and Sawaya, 2022, Zootaxa, 5178: 453–472, reported on the advertisement call.

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