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* = "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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Phrynomedusa appendiculata (Lutz, 1925)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Phyllomedusinae > Genus: Phrynomedusa > Species: Phrynomedusa appendiculata

Phyllomedusa appendiculata Lutz, 1925, C. R. Mém. Hebd. Séances Soc. Biol. Filial., Paris, 93 (1925, vol. 2): 139. Holotype: Not stated; likely MNRJ 770 according to Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 82. Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 70, considered USNM 97147 to be a syntype. Type locality: Not stated; given as São Bento do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil, by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 70, and Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 82 (who discussed the problems surrounding the provenance of the type.

Phrynomedusa appendiculata — Cruz, 1991 "1990", Rev. Brasil. Biol., 50: 721.

Common Names

Lutz's Phyllomedusa (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 122).

Santa Catarina Leaf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 61).

Distribution

Known only from five localities: (1) the type locality in the município de São Bento do Sul and (2) Novo Horizonte, município de Lauro Müller, both in the state of Santa Catarina, (3) Paranapiacaba, município de Santo André, state of São Paulo, (4) municipality of Cubatão, state of São Paulo, and (5) Parque Estadual Nascentes do Paranapanema, Capão Bonito municipality, state of São Paulo, Brazil, in south and southeastern Brazil, respectively. 800–1000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

Resurrected from the synonymy of Phrynomedusa fimbriata by Cruz, 1987 "1985", Arq. Univ. Fed. Rural Rio de Janeiro, 8: 94, where it had been placed by Bokermann IN Funkhouser, 1957, Occas. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Stanford Univ., 5: 27. See account by Heyer, Rand, Cruz, Peixoto, and Nelson, 1990, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 31: 284. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 616. See account by Baêta, Giasson, Pombal, and Haddad, 2016, Herpetol. Monogr., 30: 56–59, who noted that larval morphology and the advertisement call were unknown. Forti, Haddad, Leite, Drummond, Assis, Crivellari, Mello, Garcia, Zornosa-Torres, and Toledo, 2019, PeerJ, 7(e7612): 1–39, reported on advertisement call. Moraes, Baêta, Amaro, Martensen, and Pavan, 2022, Zootaxa, 5087: 522–540, reported on the first collection in 51 years (Parque Estadual Nascentes do Paranapanema, Capão Bonito municipality, state of São Paulo, Brazil) and detailed the comparative morphology, molecular markers, and advertisement call. Baêta and Pombal, 2024, Ichthyol. & Herpetol., 112: 418–428, discussed misidentifications and provided a dot map of its distribution.

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