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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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Cruziohyla calcarifer (Boulenger, 1902)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Phyllomedusinae > Genus: Cruziohyla > Species: Cruziohyla calcarifer

Agalychnis calcarifer Boulenger, 1902, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, 9: 52. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.24.22 (formerly 1901.5.27.26) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 86. Type locality: "the Rio Durango, 350 feet", Provincia Esmeraldas, Ecuador.

Phyllomedusa (Agalychnis) calcarifer — Lutz, 1950, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 48: 601.

Phyllomedusa calcarifer — Funkhouser, 1957, Occas. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Stanford Univ., 5: 24.

Cruziohyla calcarifer — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 113.

Common Names

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

Distribution

From Esmeraldas Province in northwestern Ecuador, through western Colombia at several reported localities (including Mecana in Chocó and Valle de Cauca) and through Panama to the most southerly part of Costa Rica, where it is found in the Fila Carbon area of Comadre, Limón Province.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama

Comment

With the recognition of Cruziohyla sylviae, the literature of Cruziohyla calcarifer becomes suspect as to whether addressing Cruziohyla sylviae, Cruziohyla calcarifer, or both; see account and revision by Gray, 2018, Zootaxa, 4450: 401–426. See earlier literature of nominal Cruziohyla calcarifer by Myers and Duellman, 1982, Am. Mus. Novit., 2752: 25–26, account by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 120–124, and note by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 843–845. Lips and Savage, 1996, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 109: 17–26, included this species (as Agalychnis calcarifer) in a key to the tadpoles found in Costa Rica. See accounts by Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 279–281, and Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 235, who implied that this nominal taxon may be a composite of cryptic species (from which Cruziohyla sylviae was subsequently named). Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 202–203, provided a map and photograph of the species. Gray, Taupp, Denés, Elsner-Gearing, and Bewick, 2021, Herpetol. J., 31: 170–176, described larval ontogeny and morphology.

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