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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 |
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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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Rhinoderma Duméril and Bibron, 1841
2 species
Rhinoderma Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 659. Type species: Rhinoderma darwinii Duméril and Bibron, 1841, by monotypy.
Heminectes Philippi, 1902, Supl. Batr. Chil. Descr. Hist. Fis. Polit. Chile: 8. Type species: Heminectes rufus Philippi, 1902, by monotypy. Synonymy by Formas, Pugin, and Jorquera, 1975, Physis, Buenos Aires, 34: 148.
English Names
Darwin's Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 114).
Mouth-breeding Frogs (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 135).
Distribution
Temperate forests of southern Chile and adjacent Argentina.
Comment
Conservation strategy and a distribution map for the species: Azat, Valenzuela-Sánchez, Delgado, Cunningham, Alvarado-Rybak, Bourke, Briones, Cabeza, Castro-Carrasco, Charrier, Correa-Quezada, Crump, Cuevas, de la Maza, Díaz-Vidal, Flores Flores, Harding, Lavilla, Méndez, Oberwemmer, Ortiz, Pastore, Peñafiel-Ricaurte, Rojas-Salinas, Serrano-Serrano, Sepúlveda, Toledo, Úbeda, Uribe-Rivera, Valdivia, Wren, and Angulo, 2021, Oryx, 55: 356–363.
Contained taxa (2 sp.):
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