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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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Epicrionops Boulenger, 1883

Class: Amphibia > Order: Gymnophiona > Family: Rhinatrematidae > Genus: Epicrionops

7 species

Epicrionops Boulenger, 1883, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 11: 202. Type species: Epicrionops bicolor Boulenger, 1883, by monotypy. See comment.

English Names

Beaked Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 25).

Distribution

Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, and presumably into adjacent Venezuela; possibly into northern Bolivia.

Comment

Lynch, 2000 "1999", Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 23: 332, noted an undescribed species of Epicrionops from Lago de Calima, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 39–78 [53], diagnosed Epicrionops and suggested that evidence of monophyly of Epicrionops with respect to Rhinatrema is currently unknown. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583 (see comment in Amphibia record) suggested on the basis of molecular evidence that Epicrionops niger is more closely related to Rhinatrema bivittatum than to Epicrionops marmoratus, suggesting that a generic rearrangement is warranted. This result was confirmed by San Mauro, Gower, Müller, Loader, Zardoya, Nussbaum, and Wilkinson, 2014, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 73: 177–189. Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 407, treated Epicrionops as a junior synonym of Rhinatrema on the basis of their molecular analysis where their one exemplar of Epicrionops was found to be the sister taxon, with weak statistical confidence, of their exemplars of Rhinatrema. See comment under Rhinatrema.

Contained taxa (7 sp.):

Epicrionops bicolor Boulenger, 1883

Epicrionops columbianus (Rendahl and Vestergren, 1939)

Epicrionops lativittatus Taylor, 1968

Epicrionops marmoratus Taylor, 1968

Epicrionops parkeri (Dunn, 1942)

Epicrionops peruvianus (Boulenger, 1902)

Epicrionops petersi Taylor, 1968

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