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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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Trachycephalus imitatrix (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Trachycephalus > Species: Trachycephalus imitatrix

Hyla imitatrix Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 77. Syntypes: MNRJ 154 (2 specimens), according to Miranda-Ribeiro, 1955, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 42: 411, who considered one specimen the holotype and the other the allotype, although this was an invalid action. Type locality: "Therezopolis [= Teresópolis], Serra dos Orgãos", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Phrynohyas imitatrix — Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 52.

Trachycephalus imitatrix — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 111.

Common Names

Rio Golden-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).

Distribution

States of São Paulo, southern Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; reported from the Área Experimental Guaraní de la Reserva de la Universidad Nacional de Posadas, Guaraní Department, Misiones, Argentina.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Argentina, Brazil

Comment

Lavilla and Cei, 2001, Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 28: 51, commented on the Argentine record. Brusquetti and Lavilla, 2006, Cuad. Herpetol., 20: 27, suggested that this species likely occurs in Paraguay. Kwet and Solé, 2008, Zootaxa, 1947: 54, noted that previous records from Paraguay and Argentina probably refer to Trachycephalus dibernardoi. See comment under Trachycephalus dibernardoi which was previously confused with this species. Forti, Foratto, Márquez, Pereira, and Toledo, 2018, PeerJ, 6(e4813): 1–19, characterized the advertisement call. Matavelli, Oliveira, Godoy, Ribeiro, and Bertoluci, 2018, Herpetol. Notes, 11: 353–355, provided records for Minas Gerais, Brazil, and discussed the range. Céspedez, Stetson, Arias, and Motte, 2020, Extension. Innovación Transfer. Tech., Corrientes, 6: 104–111, reported the species from the Área Experimental Guaraní de la Reserva de la Universidad Nacional de Posadas, Guaraní Department, Misiones, Argentina. Blotto, Lyra, Cardoso, Rodrigues, Dias, Marciano, Vechio, Orrico, Brandão, Assis, Lantyer-Silva, Rutherford, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Solé, Baldo, Nunes, Cajade, Torres, Grant, Jungfer, Silva, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2021, Cladistics, 37: 36–72, suggested that the taxonomic status of this taxon relative to Trachycephalus dibernardoi requires additional study. Subsequently, Provete, Garey, Picheli, Mello, Gonçalves, Conte, and Rossa-Feres, 2021, J. Herpetol., 55: 237–252, detailed that the advertisement calls and tadpole morphologies of this species and Trachycephalus dibernardoi differ.

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