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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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Phyllomedusa burmeisteri Boulenger, 1882

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Phyllomedusidae > Genus: Phyllomedusa > Species: Phyllomedusa burmeisteri

Phyllomedusa burmeisteri Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 428. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.22.23-25 (formerly 42.6.26), 1947.2.22.20-21 (formerly 44.3.7.60-61), 1947.2.22.17 (formerly 53.3.19.20) 1947.2.22.18 (formerly 56.4.7.7), 1947.2.22.22 (formerly 74.5.21.6), 1947.2.22.19 (formerly 1937.7.29.44) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 97; BMNH 1947. 2. 22. 22 designated lectotype by Funkhouser, 1957, Occas. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Stanford Univ., 5: 56. Type locality: "Rio Janeiro", "Brazil", and "Oran Salta, Buenos Ayres"; restricted to "the city of Rio de Janeiro, specifically the Tijuca", Brazil, by Funkhouser, 1957, Occas. Pap. Nat. Hist. Mus. Stanford Univ., 5: 56.

Phyllomedusa (Pithecopus) burmeisteri — Lutz, 1950, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 48: 619.

Pithecopus burmeisteri burmeisteri — Lutz, 1966, Copeia, 1966: 236.

English Names

Burmeister's Frog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 121).

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

Distribution

Eastern Brazil.

Comment

See Pombal and Haddad, 1992, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 52: 217-229. Izecksohn and Carvalho-e-Silva, 2001, Anf. Municipio Rio de Janeiro: 67, provided a brief account and photo (as including Phyllomedusa bahiana). In the Phyllomedusa burmeisteri group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 117, and Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259. Canelas and Bertoluci, 2007, Iheringia, Zool., 97: 21-26, provided a record for the Serra do Caraça, southern end of the Serra do Espinhaço, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Andrade, Haga, Carvalho, Martins, and Giaretta, 2018, Phyllomedusa, 17: 39–59, could not distinguish this species from Phyllomedusa bahiana on the basis of morphometrics or acoustic parameters but did not suggest a taxonomic change. Abrunhosa and Wogel, 2004, Amphibia-Reptilia, 25: 125–135, reported on the advertisement call. Röhr, Camurugi, Paterno, Gehara, Juncá, Álvares, Brandão, and Garda, 2020, Canad. J. Zool., 98: 495–504, reported on the evolution and causes of variability of advertisement call.

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