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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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Telmatobius jelskii (Peters, 1873)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Telmatobiidae > Genus: Telmatobius > Species: Telmatobius jelskii

Pseudobatrachus jelskii Peters, 1873, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 415. Syntypes: 2 specimens (adult and larva), reported as in the collection of Jelsk but not located by Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 46. Type locality: "Acancocha, [Departamento Junín,] (Peru)".

Telmatobius jelskii — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 191.

Telmatobius walkeri Shreve, 1941, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 18: 79. Holotype: MCZ 24370, by original designation. Type locality: "Rapi, one hundred and eight kilometers east of Ayacucho, Department of Ayacucho, Peru". Synonymy by Vellard, 1955, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Javier Prado, 4: 15.

Telmatobius jelskii walkeri — Vellard, 1955, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Javier Prado, 4: 15.

Telmatobius jelskii bufo Vellard, 1955, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Javier Prado, 4: 16. Syntypes: MNHNP and MUSM; MNHNP 1957. 858 designated lectotype by Lavilla, 1988, Alytes, 7: 10. The subsequent designation of a lectotype as MUSM 7646 (renumbered) by Morales, Carrillo, and Ortega, 1990, Publ. Mus. Hist. Nat. Univ. Nac. Mayor San Marcos, 33: 4, is invalid; see comments in Lavilla, 1997, Cuad. Herpetol., 11: 75-80. Type locality: "Región oriental de Ayacucho (2,800-3,200 m.)", Peru. Subspecies rejected by Sinsch, Salas, and Canales, 1995, Alytes, 13: 38.

Telmatobius jelskii longitarsis Vellard, 1955, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Javier Prado, 4: 15. Syntypes: MUSM 336, 339, and 601 (numbers of individuals unknown); MUSM 7639 (renumbered) designated lectotype by Morales, Carrillo, and Ortega, 1990, Publ. Mus. Hist. Nat. Univ. Nac. Mayor San Marcos, 33: 4. Type locality: "Huancavelica,Puquio (hasta 4500 m. )", Peru. Subspecies rejected by Sinsch, Salas, and Canales, 1995, Alytes, 13: 38.

Common Names

Acancocha Water Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 85).

Distribution

Central Andes of Peru from the Ayacucho region north to Junín region (departments of Ayacucho, Hunacavelica, and Junín), 2700-4500 m elevation

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Peru

Endemic: Peru

Comment

Vellard, 1955, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Javier Prado, 4: 14-16, discussed the four subspecies. Sinsch, 1986, Bol. Lima, 8 (45): 23–33, characterized adults and larvae. Subspecies rejected by Sinsch, Salas, and Canales, 1995, Alytes, 13: 38. See comments by Lehr, 2005, in Lavilla and De la Riva (eds.), Monogr. Herpetol., 7: 53-54. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 623. In the Telmatobius marmoratus group of Barrionuevo, 2017, Cladistics, 33: 41–68.

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