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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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Pithecopus rohdei (Mertens, 1926)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Phyllomedusinae > Genus: Pithecopus > Species: Pithecopus rohdei

Phyllomedusa rohdei Mertens, 1926, Senckenb. Biol., 8: 140. Holotype: SMF 2061 (formerly 1430. 2a), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 163. Type locality: "Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien".

Bradymedusa moschata Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 104. Syntypes: MNRJ 258 (2 specimens), according to Miranda-Ribeiro, 1955, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 42: 410, who designated 258A lectotype. Type locality: "Therezopolis [= Teresópolis], E. do Rio [de Janeiro]", Brazil. Synonymy by Mertens, 1929, Bl. Aquar. Terrarienkd., Stuttgart, 40: 287.

Pithecopus rohdei — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 32.

English Names

Rohde's Frog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 139; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 67).

Rohde's Leaf Frog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 144; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 67).

Mertens' Leaf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 62).

Distribution

Lowlands of southern Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, and Bahia).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Phyllomedusa hypochondrialis group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 117, and Caramaschi, 2006, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 64: 159-179, and Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259 (who suggested that this nominal taxon is a composite of cryptic species). Wogel, Abrunhosa, and Pombal, 2004, Herpetol. Rev., 35: 239–243, reported on vocalization. Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 68, provided a brief account and photo. Vrcibradic, Teixeira, and Ferreira, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 101, provided a record for Espírito Santo, Brazil, and summarized the range known at that time. Araújo, Loebmann, Zina, and Toledo, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 98, provided the record for Bahia. Barth, Solé, and Costa, 2009, J. Herpetol., 43: 676-679, reported on karyotypic variation. Paiva, Nascimento, Silva, Bernarde, and Ananias, 2010, Ital. J. Zool., 77: 116-121, also reported on karyology. Ramos, Magalhães, Marques, Baêta, Garcia, and Santos, 2019, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 132: 105–116, suggested on the basis of DNA and morphology that this species is a complex of five cryptic species. Ferreira, Mônico, Silva, Lirio, Zocca, Mageski, Tonini, Beard, Duca, and Silva-Soares, 2019, ZooKeys, 857: 152, noted an unnamed species, "Pithecopus aff. rohdei" in the region of Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo, Brazil. Röhr, Camurugi, Paterno, Gehara, Juncá, Álvares, Brandão, and Garda, 2020, Canad. J. Zool., 98: 495–504, reported on the evolution and causes of variability of advertisement call. Pezzuti, Leite, Rossa-Feres, and Garcia, 2021, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 22 (Special Issue): 1–109, described Pithecopus aff. rohdei larval morphology and natural history.

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