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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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Hylodes nasus (Lichtenstein, 1823)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylodidae > Genus: Hylodes > Species: Hylodes nasus

Hyla nasus Lichtenstein, 1823, Verz. Doubl. Zool. Mus. Univ. Berlin: 106. Holotype: Not stated (?ZMB). Type locality: "Brasil"; "provàvelmente Rio de Janeiro", State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, according to Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 57.

Hyla ranoides Spix, 1824, Animal. Nova Spec. Nov. Test. Ran. Brasil.: 32. Syntypes: 3 specimens of which one was figured on pl. 6, fig. 3; these three specimens were ZSM 1043/0 (3 specimens), now lost according to Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 361, who noted that although two of the syntypes were Hylodes nasus, the figured specimen was likely either an Eleutherodactylus or Thoropa. Type locality: "Provincia Bahiae", Brazil. Synonymy by Peters, 1872, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 207; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 193. Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 361, note that at least two of the lost syntypes were presumably Hylodes nasus, the specimen figured by Spix, was either Thoropa miliaris or a species of Eleutherodactylus. See discussion by Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 361–362.

Hylodes ranoides — Fitzinger, 1826, Neue Class. Rept.: 64; Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 77.

Enydrobius ranoides — Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 64.

Elosia nasuta — Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 77. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Elosia bufonium Girard, 1853, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 6: 423. Types: Not designated; presumably originally in USNM or ANSP. Type locality: "Rio de Janeiro, Brazil". Synonymy by Lutz, 1930, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 24: 223–249.

Hylodes truncatus Steindachner, 1864, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 14: 248. Syntypes: NHMW 16519 (3 specimens), according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 22, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 26. Type locality: "Curcovado [= Corcovado] (in der Nähe von Rio de Janeiro?), zwei davon auf einem Steine im Quellwasser, die beiden übrigen in feuchter Waldgegend", Brazil. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 193.

Elosia nasus — Günther, 1866, Zool. Rec., 2: 159; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 193.

Enydrobius nasus — Cope, 1866, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 96, by implication.

Elosia bufonia — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 194; Baumann, 1912, Zool. Jahrb., Jena, Abt. Syst., 33: 161.

Megaelosia bufonia — Miranda-Ribeiro, 1923, Rev. Mus. Paulista, São Paulo, 13: 813–821. Based on specimens of Megaelosia goeldii according to Lutz, 1930, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 24: 209; and Giaretta, Bokermann, and Haddad, 1993, J. Herpetol., 27: 276–285.

Hylodes ranoides — Miranda-Ribeiro, 1923, Rev. Mus. Paulista, São Paulo, 13: 823. Based on misidentified specimens according to Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 196.

Elosia nasus nasus — Mertens, 1927, Bl. Aquar. Terrarienkd., Stuttgart, 38: 288.

Hylodes (Megaelosia) bufonia — Noble, 1927, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., 30: 105.

Hylodes nasus — Myers, 1946, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 55: 10, 28; Lynch, 1971, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 53: 167.

Common Names

Santa Catarina Tree Toad (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 81).

Distribution

State of Rio de Janeiro to Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Hylodes nasus group of Heyer, 1982, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 95: 377–385. See Hoogmoed and Gruber, 1983, Spixiana, München, Suppl., 9: 361–362, for discussion of synonymy. Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 72, provided a brief account and photo. Weber, Abrunhosa, and Wogel, 2004, Amphibia-Reptilia, 25: 219–227, reported on larval morphology and vocalization.

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