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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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Mantella cowanii Boulenger, 1882

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Mantellidae > Subfamily: Mantellinae > Genus: Mantella > Species: Mantella cowanii

Mantella cowanii Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 471. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.7.4–5 (formerly 1882.3.16.38–39) according to Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 270, and museum records; BMNH 1947.2.7.4 (formerly 1882.3.16.38) designated lectotype by Vences, Glaw, and Böhme, 1999, Alytes, 17: 27. Type locality: "East Betsileo", Madagascar.

English Names

Black Golden Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 100).

Cowan's Mantella (Staniszewski, 2001, Mantellas: 170).

Cowan's Golden Frog (Staniszewski, 2001, Mantellas: 170).

Distribution

Forested areas of the highlands southeast of Ambatolampy and near Antoetra, Madagascar, 1000–2000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Madagascar

Endemic: Madagascar

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Mantella madagascariensis by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 270, where it had been placed by Guibé, 1948, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. Paris, Ser. 2, 20: 235–238, and Busse, 1981, Amphibia-Reptilia, 2: 29 (who also addressed confusion in application of the name Mantella cowani). Considered to be likely a color morph of Mantella baroni (as Mantella madagascariensis) by Glaw and Vences, 1992, Fieldguide Amph. Rept. Madagascar: 165. See comment under Mantella haraldmeieri. See Vences, Glaw, Peyrieras, Böhme, and Busse, 1994, Aquar. Terrar. Z., 47: 391, who note that this nominal species covers a number of well differentiated geographic forms. In the Mantella cowani group of Vences, Glaw, and Böhme, 1999, Alytes, 17: 3–72, who sorted out much of the nomenclatural confusion surrounding this name; and of Glaw and Vences, 2006, Organisms Divers. Evol., Electron. Suppl., 11(1): 2. Staniszewski, 2001, Mantellas: 170–172, provided an account. Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 194–195, provided an account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 427. Andreone, Vences, Glaw, and Randrianirina, 2007, Tropical Zool., 20: 19–39, reported the species from the high plateau of central Madagascar.

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