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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 olfersii (Lichtenstein and Martens, 1856)

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

Phryniscus olfersii Lichtenstein and Martens, 1856, Nomencl. Rept. Amph. Mus. Zool. Berol.: 40. Syntypes: ZMB (multiple) and BMNH (1947.2.18.11, formerly 1882.7.17.9, according to museum records, presumably exchanged from ZMB), according to Boulenger, 1887, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 20: 297. ZMB 3375, the surviving ZMB syntype, designated lectotype by Cassini, Cruz, and Caramaschi, 2010, Zootaxa, 2491: 7. Type locality: "Brasilien"; restricted to "Serra do Mar mountain range, from the states of Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paulo", Brazil, by Cassini, Cruz, and Caramaschi, 2010, Zootaxa, 2491: 6.

Phrynidium olfersi — Cope, 1867, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 196.

Paludicola olfersi — Peters, 1882, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1882: 62.

Physalaemus olfersi — Parker, 1927, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 20: 464.

English Names

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

Distribution

From the municipality of Santa Teresa, state of Espírito Santo, southern region of the state of Minas Gerais to the municipality of São Paulo and central region of the state of São Paulo, in the municipality of Botucatu, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Physalaemus olfersii group of Nascimento, Caramaschi, and Cruz, 2005, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 63: 311. See account (including description of advertisement call) by Heyer, Rand, Cruz, Peixoto, and Nelson, 1990, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 31: 316–317. Cruz, Cassini, and Caramaschi, 2008, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 3: 242, suggested that the taxon is a species complex. Giaretta, Martins, and Santos, 2009, Zootaxa, 2266: 51–60, compared the calls of Physalaemus olfersi, Physalaemus moreirae, Physalaemus bokermanni, and Physalaemus jordanensis. Species redelimited and discussed by Cassini, Cruz, and Caramaschi, 2010, Zootaxa, 2491: 1–33. In the Physalaemus cuvieri clade, Physalaemus olfersii species group, of Lourenço, Targueta, Baldo, Nascimento, Garcia, Andrade, Haddad, and Recco-Pimentel, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 92: 204–216. Carvalho, Haddad, and Gridi-Papp, 2019, Acta Herpetol., Firenze, 14: 21–26, reported on tonal calls. 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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