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
	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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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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Lithobates cora (Pérez-Ramos and Luja-Molina, 2022)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Lithobates > Species: Lithobates cora

Rana cora Pérez-Ramos and Luja-Molina, 2022, Rev. Zool., Mexico, 34: 23. Holotype: MZFC 28163, by original designation. Type locality: "Nayarit, Mpio. Rosamorada, Arroyo Bejucos, 9 m, 22.006194, -105.336167".

Lithobates cora — Here (21 February 2023), to conform to the taxonomy adopted by this catalogue, most recently supported by Dufresnes and Litvinchuk, 2022, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 195: 733. See Lithobates synonymy.

Common Names

Náayari Leopard Frog (original publication).

Distribution

Extreme southwestern Chihuahua, west-central Sonora, through Sinaloa, Nayarit, and Colima, Mexico, sea level to 1250 m elevation; presumably penetrating into the barrancas of western Durango. See comment.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

Formerly confused with Lithobates forreri, separable by genetic markers and morphology according to the original publication, where this taxon was stated to be (NOTE: in part) the Rana sp. 20 (Colima form) of Hillis, Frost, and Wright, 1983, Syst. Zool., 32: 132–143 (delimited by electromorphs) and Rana forreri 3 of Zaldívar-Riverón, León-Regagnon, and Nieto-Montes de Oca, 2004, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 30: 41, which was delimited by mtDNA markers. Rorabaugh and Lemos-Espinal, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Sonora: 187–189, provided a detailed account (as Lithobates forreri) of natural history, morphology, distribution, and conservation status in Sonora, Mexico, for populations now associated with Lithobates cora and Lithobates adleri. Loc-Barragán, Smith, Woolrich-Piña, and Lemos-Espinal, 2024, Herpetozoa, Wien, 37: 30, reported on the distributional and conservation status in the state of Nayarit, Mexico. Castro-Bastidas, 2024, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 107: 171–186, and Castro-Bastidas, 2024, Bull. Chicago Herpetol. Soc., 59: 111–118, suggested that records from Sinaloa (and by extension to Chihuahua and Sonora) require genetic confirmation.

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