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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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Paratelmatobius gaigeae (Cochran, 1938)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Leptodactylidae > Subfamily: Paratelmatobiinae > Genus: Paratelmatobius > Species: Paratelmatobius gaigeae

Leptodactylus gaigeae Cochran, 1938, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 51: 41. Holotype: USNM 96759, by original designation; subsequently transferred to MNRJ and not located according to Pombal and Haddad, 1999, Copeia, 1999: 1020. Type locality: "Bonito in the Serra da Bocaina, near the boundary between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo", Brazil.

Paratelmatobius pictiventris Lutz In Lutz and Carvalho, 1958, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 56: 240. Syntypes: 2 specimens, formerly in the USNM, now lost according to Pombal and Haddad, 1999, Copeia, 1999: 1020. Type locality: "na Serra da Bocaina, fronteiriça ao Itatiaia, do outro lado do vale do rio Paraíba" and in the same publication (p. 244) translated as "at third brook on the way from Bonito to Alambary", Serra da Bocaina, State of São Paulo, Brazil. Synonymy by Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 80; Lynch, 1971, Misc. Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 53: 183 (who incorrectly considered this name a nomen nudum). Pombal and Haddad, 1999, Copeia, 1999: 1020, documented the availability of the name.

Paratelmatobius gaigeae — Bokermann, 1966, Lista Anot. Local. Tipo Anf. Brasil.: 71, 80.

Common Names

Gaige's Rapids Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 82).

Distribution

Serra da Bocaina, Serra do Mar range, above 1000 m elevation, southeastern Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

Beside the accounts noted in the generic record, see accounts by Heyer, Rand, Cruz, Peixoto, and Nelson, 1990, Arq. Zool., São Paulo, 31: 311-312, and Cardoso and Haddad, 1990, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 37: 125-137. Zaher, Aguiar, and Pombal, 2005, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 63: 321-328, reported the first collection since the type specimens, redescribed the species, and allocated the species to the Paratelmatobius lutzii group. Domenico, Haddad, and Zaher, 2014, J. Herpetol., 48: 430–433, reported on the advertisement call and larval morphology. Giaretta and Magrini, 2013, Herpetol. Notes, 6 171–176, reported on advertisement call.

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