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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 laevis Philippi, 1902

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

Telmatobius laevis Philippi, 1902, Supl. Batr. Chil. Descr. Hist. Fis. Polit. Chile: 43. Syntypes: MNHNC (2 specimens) according to the original publication; one of these now FMNH 9978 (on exchange from MNHNC according to Schmidt, 1928, Rev. Chilena Hist. Nat., 32: 103), which was designated lectotype by Cuevas, 2013, Herpetol. J., 23: 146, who also noted that the lectoparatype whose illustration conforms to the diagnosis of Alsodes nodosus is lost. Type locality: "Potrero", Chile (=? Potrero Grande, near Santiago, Chile). Cei, 1962, Batr. Chile: 63, noted that the type locality had not been located with certainty. Cuevas, 2013, Herpetol. J., 23: 145-152, on the basis of additional evidence discussed the likelihood that the type locality is 'a plateau "Potrero Grande' (3° 28′ 33″ S, 70° 23′ 54″ W), limited in the north-eat by the stream Recauquenes and in the north-west by the stream Covarrubias; to the south, this plateau is limited by La Encañada de las Condes. Potrero Grande is located to the west of Cerro de Ramón, in straight line with the city of Santiago".

Alsodes laevis — Lynch, 1978, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 72: 50.

Telmatobius laevis — Cuevas, 2013, Herpetol. J., 23: 145.

English Names

Potrero Spiny-chest Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 70).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Potrero Grande. near Santiago, Santiago Province, Chile). See comment.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Chile

Endemic: Chile

Comment

Given that the species is known only from the lectotype, collected well over 100 years ago, begs the questions whether the species is either extinct or possibly synonymous with one of the other southern Andean species. My (DRF) first inclination was to treat this name as a nomen inquirenda, but because there is a type in relatively good condition, and a type locality that can be revisited I retain it as a valid taxon. See Lobos, Vidal-Maldonado, Correa-Quezada, Labra-Lillo, Díaz-Páez, Charrier, Rabanal, Díaz-Vidal, and Tala, 2013, Anf. Chile Conserv. 1–104, (as Alsodes laevis) for photograph, comments on conservation status, and range in Chile.

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