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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.
* = "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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Agalychnis medinae (Funkhouser, 1962)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Phyllomedusidae > Genus: Agalychnis > Species: Agalychnis medinae

Phyllomedusa medinae Funkhouser, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 588. Holotype: EBRG 37, by original designation. Type locality: "the biological station 'Henry Pittier' . . . . Estacion Biologica de Rancho Grande (Edo. Aragua, Venezuela)".

Phyllomedusa medinai — Rivero, 1967, Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle, 27: 9; Cannatella, 1980, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 1–40. Unjustified emendation.

Hylomantis medinai — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 115.

Agalychnis medinae — Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259.

Common Names

Rancho Grande Leaf Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 62).

Distribution

In the cloud forests of the west-central part of the Cordillera de la Costa at Bejuma in Carabobo, Rancho Grande in Aragua, and in Cerro Zapatero and Sierra de Aroa, Yaracuy, Venezuela.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Venezuela

Endemic: Venezuela

Comment

See account by Cannatella, 1980, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 87: 1-40. In the Hylomantis buckelyi group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 115. Unassigned to species group by Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259. Brandon-Jones, Duckworth, Jenkins, Rylands, and Sarmiento, 2007, Zootaxa, 1541: 41-48, discussed why the name medinae is not emendable. Barrio-Amorós, 2009, Mem. Fund. La Salle Cienc. Nat., 171: 19-46, commented on the biology and range within Venezuela, as Hylomantis medinai. Hertz and Lotzkat, 2010, Salamandra, 46: 121–124, reported on vocalization. Rojas-Runjaic, Camargo-Siliet, Bolaños, Mora, Aular, and García, 2014, Check List, 10: 392–394, discussed the range and provided a range extension to the Sierra de Aroa, Yaracuy, Venezuela. See Barrio-Amorós, Rojas-Runjaic, and Señaris Vasquez, 2019, Amph. Rept. Conserv., 13 (1: e180): 105, for comments on range, extinction at the type locality, and literature.

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