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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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Tlalocohyla picta (Günther, 1901)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Tlalocohyla > Species: Tlalocohyla picta

Hylella picta Günther, 1901, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 166: 286. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.22.62 (formerly 1901.12.19.100 according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 94). Type locality: "Mexico, [Veracruz,] Jalapa".

Hyla picta — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 248.

Tlalocohyla picta — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 107.

English Names

Painted Treefrog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 23; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 57; Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 81; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 103; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 25).

Distribution

Atlantic lowlands from San Luis Potosí, northeastern Hidalgo, and northern Queretaro, Mexico, south through the Veracruz, northern Oaxaca, the Yucatan Peninsula, and northern Guatemala and Belize to northern coastal Honduras.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico

Comment

For accounts see Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 365–367, Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 97–99, Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 81–82, Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 103–105, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 275–277. Formerly in the Hyla picta group; this group was transferred into the Hyla godmani group by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 904–905. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 39, detailed the departmental range in Honduras. Lemos-Espinal and Dixon, 2013, Amphibians and Reptiles of San Luis Potosí: 59–60, provided an account for San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 269–270, provided a brief summary of natural history and identification key for the species of Tlalocohyla in Central America and provided a range map and photograph for this species. 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: 381–382, provided a brief account and map for Hidalgo, Mexico. See Varela-Soto, Abarca, Brenes-Mora, Aspinall, Leenders, and Shepack, 2022, Zootaxa, 5178: 520, for dot map. 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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