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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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Scinax cynocephalus (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Genus: Scinax > Species: Scinax cynocephalus

Hyla cynocephala Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 558. Holotype: MNHNP 765, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 18. Type locality: "Guyane". Synonymy with Scinax nebulosa by Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 158.

Hyla cyanocephala — Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 97. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Ololygon cynocephala — Duellman, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 160.

Scinax cynocephala — Duellman and Wiens, 1992, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 151: 16, 21; Köhler and Böhme, 1996, Rev. Fr. Aquar. Herpetol., 23: 139.

Scinax cynocephalus — Ramos, Fouquet, Roberto, Perez, Ferrão, Carvalho, Almeida, Gordo, Dantas, Chaparro Auza, Moura, and Ávila, 2026, J. Vert. Biol., Prague, 75(26059): 13.

Common Names

Blue-headed Snouted Treefrog (Scinax cynocephala: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 64).

Distribution

Limited to the coastal zone of the eastern Guiana region, in Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname, but it also occurs in isolated patches in the upper Maroni and Sipaliwini savannah, as well as in the patches of savannas in the states of Roraima and northern Pará in Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname

Comment

Ramos, Fouquet, Roberto, Perez, Ferrão, Carvalho, Almeida, Gordo, Dantas, Chaparro Auza, Moura, and Ávila, 2026, J. Vert. Biol., Prague, 75(26059): 1–37, revised the Scinax nebulosus complex, of which this is a member, discussing molecular phylogenetics, adult and larval morphology, and morphometrics, and distribution and noting previous misidentifications in the literature.

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