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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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Hyloscirtus albopunctulatus (Boulenger, 1882)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Genus: Hyloscirtus > Species: Hyloscirtus albopunctulatus

Hyla albopunctulata Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 385. Syntypes: BMNH (5 specimens) by original designation; including BMNH 1880.12.5.159–162, 1880.12.5.230 according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 87. BMNH 1880.12.5.230 designated lectotype by Varela-Jaramillo, Streicher, Venegas, and Ron, 2025, ZooKeys, 1231: 256. Type locality: "Sarayacu", Provincia Pastaza, Ecuador (1 specimen) and "Ecuador" (4 specimens). Lectotype from "Sarayacu", Provincia Pastaza, Ecuador.

Hyloscirtus albopunctulatus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 84.

Boana albopunctulata — Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 743, by implication.

Common Names

White-spotted Stream Frog (Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxiii).

Rana Torrentícola Punteada (Spanish: Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: xxxiii).

White-speckled Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 53).

Rana de Torrente de Puntos Blancos (Spanish: Varela-Jaramillo, Streicher, Venegas, and Ron, 2025, ZooKeys, 1231: 256).

Distribution

Amazonian Ecuador (Orellana, Morona Santiago, and Pastaza Provinces) and extreme southeastern Amazonas, Colombia; expected in adjacent Peru and Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Likely/Controversially Present: Brazil, Peru

Comment

See comment under Hyla palmeri, with which it was formerly confused. In the Hyloscirtus bogotensis group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 84. See comment under Hypsiboas nympha, with which this species was routinely misidentified (see Varela-Jaramillo, Streicher, Venegas, and Ron, 2025, ZooKeys, 1231: 232–292). Lynch, 2005, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 29: 581–588, reported the species from the vicinity of Leticia, Colombia, although this requires confirmation; if true presumably present in Amazonas, Brazil, near the Colombia localities. Varela-Jaramillo, Streicher, Venegas, and Ron, 2025, ZooKeys, 1231: 233–292, addressed systematics, natural history, and biogeography. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 402–404, provided an account, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map for Ecuador), and conservation.

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