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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.
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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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Agalychnis spurrelli Boulenger, 1913

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Phyllomedusinae > Genus: Agalychnis > Species: Agalychnis spurrelli

Agalychnis spurrelli Boulenger, 1913, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1913: 1024. Syntypes: including BMNH 1947.2.24.24–25 (formerly 1913.11.12.129–130) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 86, who also noted that 4 specimens were mentioned in the original publication); the missing specimens are currently not located. Type locality: "Peña Lisa, Condoto, altitude 300 feet", Provincia Chocó, Colombia.

Phyllomedusa spurrelli — Funkhouser, 1957, Occas. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Stanford Univ., 5: 39.

Phyllomedusa litodryas Duellman and Trueb, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 125. Holotype: KU 96149, by original designation. Type locality: "1 km west-southwest of the junction of the Río Mono and the Río Tuira, Darién Province, Panamá, elevation 130 m". Synonymy by Ortega-Andrade, 2008, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 48: 105.

Agalychnis litodryas — Duellman, 1968, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 18: 4.

English Names

Gliding Leaf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52).

Pink-sided Leaf Frog (Agalychnis litodryas [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52).

Distribution

Central western lowlands of Costa Rica to the Pacific lowlands of Colombia (Chocó, Valle del Cauca, Cauca, and Nariño) and adjacent Ecuador, 42–1199 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama

Comment

See account by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 124–128, and note by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 842–843. Lips and Savage, 1996, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 109: 17–26, included this species in a key to the tadpoles found in Costa Rica. See account by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 285-286. See account (as Agalychnis litodryas) by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 128, and note by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 840 (as Agalychnis litodryas). Ortega-Andrade, 2008, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 48: 103–117, reported on variation and distribution. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status of nominal Agalychnis litodryas in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 239. Vega and Robertson, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 361, provided a record for west-central Costa Rica and commented on the range. In the Agalychis callidryas group of Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 198–201, provided a key to the species of Central America and provided a map and photograph of the species, including this one. Vargas-Salinas and Torres-Suárez, 2013, Catal. Anf. Rept. Colombia, Medellín, 1: 19–25, provided an account and spot map for Colombia. Curlis and Macklem, 2017, Herpetol. Rev., 48: 582–583, provided an eastern (for Costa Rica) and elevational record from Coro Brus Municipality, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. Cossio and Medina-Barcenas, 2020, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 17: 71-78, reported on the acoustic repertoire. Montes-Correa, Jiménez-Bolaño, Collazos-Astudillo, and Renjifo, 2023, Reptiles & Amphibians, 30 (e19521): 1–4, discussed the range and provided a dot map of the range along with a new record from the Municipality of Magüí Payán, Santo Domingo Village, Nariño Department, Colombia, 42 m elevation.

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