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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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Osteopilus ocellatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Genus: Osteopilus > Species: Osteopilus ocellatus

Rana ocellata Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, 1: 211. Syntypes: Including animal figured by "Brown. Jam. 466. t. 41. f. 4." (= Browne, 1756, Civil and Nat. Hist. Jamaica: 211) (as Rana maxima compressa miscella), and other secondary syntypes of Pisonis, 1658, India Utriusque Nat. Med. Lib.(as Curruru), Catesby, 1754, Nat. Hist. Carolina Florida Bahama Is. (as Rana terrestris), and Linnaeus, 1748, Syst. Nat., Ed. 6 (as Rana dorso pullifero). All specimens now lost. Neotype designated as USNM 251390 by Lavilla, Langone, Caramaschi, Heyer, and de Sá, 2010, Zootaxa, 2346: 4. Type locality: "America". Neotype from "Jamaica, Hanover Parish, 1.7 miles SSE of Hopewell".

Hyla brunnea Gosse, 1851, A Naturalist’s Sojourn in Jamaica: 361. Type(s): Not stated but possibly in the BMNH. Type locality: "Savanna-la-Mar", Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica.

Trachycephalus scutigerus Cope, 1863, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 15: 45. Holotype: USNM 6267, according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 81; given as USNM 6268 and now lost by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 151. Type locality: "Jamaica". Synonymy by Dunn, 1926, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 38: 125.

Hyla septentrionalis brunnea — Barbour, 1937, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 82: 81.

Hyla dominicensis brunnea — Mittleman, 1950, Herpetologica, 6: 26.

Osteopilus brunneus — Trueb and Tyler, 1974, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 24: 36.

Osteopilus ocellatus — Lavilla, Langone, Caramaschi, Heyer, and de Sá, 2010, Zootaxa, 2346: 4.

Common Names

Savanna-la-Mar Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).

Brown Tree-frog (Gosse, 1851, A Naturalist’s Sojourn in Jamaica: 360).

Jamaican Laughing Treefrog (Hedges, Powell, Henderson, Hanson, and Murphy, 2019, Caribb. Herpetol., 67: 13).

Distribution

Jamaica, from sea level to ca. 1500 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Jamaica

Endemic: Jamaica

Comment

Henderson and Powell, 2009, Nat. Hist. Rept. Amph. W. Indies: 85, summarized the natural history literature, as Osteopilus brunneus, which was the name applied in the literature for this species prior to the publication of Lavilla, Langone, Caramaschi, Heyer, and de Sá, 2010, Zootaxa, 2346: 1–16, where the appropriate application of names was resolved.

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