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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.
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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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Leptodactylus rhodomystax Boulenger, 1884

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Leptodactylinae > Genus: Leptodactylus > Species: Leptodactylus rhodomystax

Leptodactylus rhodomystax Boulenger, 1884 "1883", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1883: 637. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens) 1947.2.17.81–82 (formerly 1884.2.18.45–46) according to museum records; BMNH 1947.12.17.81 designated lectotype by Heyer, 1979, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 301: 30. Type locality: "Yurimaguas, Huallaga River, [Loreto,] Northern Peru".

Leptodactylus stictigularis Noble, 1923, Zoologica, New York, 3: 293. Holotype: AMNH 10398, by original designation. Type locality: "Kartabo, British Guiana [= Guyana]". Synonymy by Parker, 1935, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1935: 508; Heyer, 1979, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 301: 30.

English Names

Loreto White-lipped Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 82).

Rose-lipped Thin-toed Frog (Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park: 226).

Distribution

Guianas (including the La Escalera region of Bolívar, Venezuela) through Amazonian and central Brazil to Amazonian Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, 50 to 500 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

Comment

In the Leptodactylus pentadactylus group of Heyer, 1972, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 231: 1–8, and Heyer, 1979, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 301: 1–43. Duellman, 1978, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 65: 111–112, provided a brief account and characterization of the tadpole. Zimmerman and Bogart, 1984, Acta Amazonica, 14: 473–520, reported on vocalization. Rodríguez and Duellman, 1994, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 22: 68–69, provided a brief account for the Iquitos region of northeastern Peru. See comment under Leptodactylus riveroi. Lescure and Marty, 2000, Collect. Patrimoines Nat., Paris, 45: 250–251, provided a photo and brief account for French Guiana. See comment under Leptodactylus riveroi. Gorzula and Señaris, 1999 "1998", Scient. Guaianae, 8: 56, note a specimen which may be the first record for Venezuela, the previous records being misidentified examples of Leptodactylus riveroi. Rodrigues, Menin, and Lima, 2007, Zootaxa, 1509: 61–67, reported on larval morphology and natural history. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park: 226–227, provided an account. Fouquet, Gilles, Vences, Marty, Blanc, and Gemmell, 2007, PLoS One, 10 (e1109): 1–10, provided molecular evidence that this is a species complex. MacCulloch and Lathrop, 2009, R. Ontario Mus. Contrib. Sci., 4: 15, commented on specimens from Mount Ayanganna, Guyana. França and Venâncio, 2010, Biotemas, 23: 71–84, provided a record for the municipality of Boca do Acre, Amazonas, with a brief discussion of the range. Bernarde, Machado, and Turci, 2011, Biota Neotrop., 11: 117–144, reported specimens from Reserva Extrativista Riozinho da Liberdade, Acre, Brazil. See account for Suriname population by Ouboter and Jairam, 2012, Amph. Suriname: 260–261. See Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 426–427, for brief account and records for Guyana. In the Leptodactylus pentadactylus species group of de Sá, Grant, Camargo, Heyer, Ponssa, and Stanley, 2014, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 9(Spec. Issue 1): 1–123, and who provided a summary of relevant literature (adult and larval morphology, identification, advertisement call, and range) on p. 59.See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 95–97, for comments on range and literature. Fouquet, Vidal, and Dewynter, 2019, Zoosystema, 41: 371, suggested that this binomial represents a species complex. For identification of larvae in central Amazonia, Brazil, see Hero, 1990, Amazoniana, 11: 201–262. See brief account for the Manu region, Peru, by Villacampa-Ortega, Serrano-Rojas, and Whitworth, 2017, Amph. Manu Learning Cent.: 234–235. Taucce, Costa-Campos, Carvalho, and Michalski, 2022, Eur. J. Taxon., 836: 96–130, reported on distribution, literature, and conservation status for Amapá, Brazil. Schiesari, Rossa-Feres, Menin, and Hödl, 2022, Zootaxa, 5223: 93–94, detailed larval and metamorph morphology and natural history. Gagliardi-Urrutia, García Dávila, Jaramillo-Martinez, Rojas-Padilla, Rios-Alva, Aguilar-Manihuari, Pérez-Peña, Castroviejo-Fisher, Simões, Estivals, Guillen Huaman, Castro Ruiz, Angulo Chávez, Mariac, Duponchelle, and Renno, 2022, Anf. Loreto: 152–153, provided a brief account, photograph, dot map, and genetic barcode for Loreto, Peru.

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