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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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Physalaemus fernandezae (Müller, 1926)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Leiuperinae > Genus: Physalaemus > Species: Physalaemus fernandezae

Paludicola fernandezae Müller, 1926, Zool. Anz., 65: 193. Holotype: ZSM 137/1925 (lost) according to Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 174. Type locality: "Christiano muerto (zwischen Neochaea und Bahia Blanca), Prov. Buenos Aires, Argentinien".

Physalaemus barbouri Parker, 1927, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 20: 463. Holotype: BMNH 1913.9.10.48, by original designation, now renumbered 1947.2.18.12 according to museum records. Type locality: "La Plata". Synonymy by Barrio, 1964, Acta Zool. Lilloana, 20: 285–305. Formerly considered a synonym of Physalaemus henselii by Barrio, 1954, Physis, Buenos Aires, 20: 379–389; Cei, 1956, Invest. Zool. Chilen., 3: 51; and Milstead, 1960, Copeia, 1960: 83–89.

Physalaemus fernandezae — Parker, 1927, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 20: 463.

English Names

Whistling Dwarf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 83).

Distribution

Known from Uruguay only from three departments in Uruguay, Montevideo (Santiago Vázquez), Florida (Cerro Colorado), and Canelones and Maldonado (arroyo Solís); adjacent Argentina (Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos, and Corrientes provinces).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural resident: Argentina, Uruguay

Comment

In the Physalaemus henselii group of Nascimento, Caramaschi, and Cruz, 2005, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 63: 310. Tomatis, Baldo, Kolenc, and Borteiro, 2009, J. Herpetol., 43: 555–560, rejected the reality of this group. See comment under Physalaemus henselii. See accounts by Barrio, 1964, Acta Zool. Lilloana, 20: 285–305; Gallardo, 1965, Neotropica, 11: 27–37 (as both Physalaemus barbouri and Physalaemus fernandezae); and Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 406–409. See brief discussion of taxonomic confusion by Klappenbach and Langone, 1992, An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, Ser. 2, 8: 194–195. Achaval and Olmos, 2003, Anf. Rept. Uruguay, ed. 2: 29, provided a brief account and photograph for the Uruguay population. Alcalde, Natale, and Cajade, 2019, Herpetol. J., 16: 203–211, described the tadpole. Marangoni, Agostini, Barrasso, and Cajade, 2012, North-West. J. Zool., Romania, 8: 63–71, reported on growth patterns in Argentina. In the Physalaemus cuvieri clade, Physalaemus henselii species group, of Lourenço, Targueta, Baldo, Nascimento, Garcia, Andrade, Haddad, and Recco-Pimentel, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 92: 204–216. See account by Maneyro, Langone, and Carreira, 2019, in Maneyro, Langone, and Carreira (eds.), Libro Rojo Anf. Rept. Uruguay: 75–79, for Uruguay. Hepp and Pombal, 2020, Zootaxa, 4725: 1–106, discussed this species as part of a genus-wide discussion of bioacoustical traits among the species.

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