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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 phyllognathus (Melin, 1941)

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

Hyla phyllognatha Melin, 1941, Göteborgs K. Vetensk. Vitterh. Samh. Handl., Ser. B, 1: 30. Holotype: NHMG 474, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 83. Type locality: "Roque, [Departamento San Martín,] Perú".

Hyloscirtus phyllognathus — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 85.

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

Common Names

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

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

Roque Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 57).

Distribution

Amazonian slopes of Andes in Peru, up to 2190 m elevation; unnamed or misidentified populations in Ecuador and Colombia have been assigned to this species (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Likely/Controversially Present: Colombia, Ecuador

Endemic: Peru

Comment

See Duellman, 1972, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 11: 1–31. See account by Ruiz-Carranza and Lynch, 1982, Caldasia, 13: 658–659. In the Hyloscirtus bogotensis group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 84–85. Mueses-Cisneros, 2005, Caldasia, 27: 235, provided a record for Putumayo, Colombia. In Hyloscirtus species group B of Sánchez, 2010, Copeia, 2010: 351–363. Acosta-Galvis, 2017, Biota Colomb., 18: 282–315, reported the species from the Municipality of Yopal, Casanare Department, Colombia. See brief account (as Hyloscirtus aff. phyllognathus) for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 154–155, and suggested that this segment of the range is an unnamed species. Varela-Jaramillo, Streicher, Venegas, and Ron, 2025, ZooKeys, 1231: 233–292, suggested that records from Ecuador (and by extension Colombia) are based on misidentifications. Coloma and Duellman, 2025, Amph. Ecuador. Vol. 2: 431–433, provided an account of this nominal species in Ecuador, with photographs, which summarized identification, adult and larval morphology, systematics, natural history, distribution (including a dot map), conservation, and (on p. 587) the advertisement call.

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