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* = "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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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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Stereocyclops Cope, 1870

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Gastrophryninae > Genus: Stereocyclops

4 species

Stereocyclops Cope, 1870 "1869", Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 11: 165. Type species: Sterocyclops incrassatus Cope, 1870 "1869", by monotypy.

Emydops Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920, Rev. Mus. Paulista, São Paulo, 12: 286. Type species: Emydops hypomelas Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920, by monotypy. Preoccupied by Emydops Broom, 1912. Synonymy by Carvalho, 1948, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 84: 4.

Ribeirina Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 115. Replacement name for Emydops Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920. Synonymy by Carvalho, 1948, Bol. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, N.S., Zool., 84: 4; Bokermann, 1952, Pap. Avulsos Zool., São Paulo, 10: 287.

Hyophryne Carvalho, 1954, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 555: 4. Type species: Hyophryne histrio Carvalho, 1954, by original designation. Synonymy by de Sá, Streicher, Sekonyela, Forlani, Loader, Greenbaum, Richards, and Haddad, 2012, BMC Evol. Biol., 12(241): 1-21.

English Names

Brazilian Dumpy Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 93).

Yellow Frogs (Hyophryne [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 90).

Distribution

Atlantic forest of eastern Brazil from Alagoas south to São Paulo.

Comment

Most closely allied to (and morphologically more primitive than) Hyophryne and Ctenophryne, according to Carvalho, 1954, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 555: 4. Formerly in the New World component of Microhylinae; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 225, did not address this taxon in their study, and they removed Stereocyclops from any subfamily pending resolution of its phylogenetic placement. van der Meijden, Vences, Hoegg, Boistel, Channing, and Meyer, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 44: 1017-1030, did not address this taxon. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, assigned this taxon to Gastrophryninae without comment. de Sá, Streicher, Sekonyela, Forlani, Loader, Greenbaum, Richards, and Haddad, 2012, BMC Evol. Biol., 12(241): 1-21, transferred Stereocyclops into Gastrophryninae on the basis of molecular evidence.

Contained taxa (4 sp.):

Stereocyclops histrio (Carvalho, 1954)

Stereocyclops incrassatus Cope, 1870

Stereocyclops palmipes Caramaschi, Salles, and Cruz, 2012

Stereocyclops parkeri (Wettstein, 1934)

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