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Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla |
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Hyla |
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Lithobates OR "Costa Rica" |
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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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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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Microcaecilia Taylor, 1968
16 species
Microcaecilia Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 532. Type species: Dermophis albiceps Boulenger, 1882, by original designation.
Parvicaecilia Taylor, 1968, Caecilians of the World: 546. Type species: Gymnophis nicefori Barbour, 1925, by original designation. Synonymy by Wilkinson, O'Connor, and Nussbaum, 2013, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 744: 7.
Caecilita Wake and Donnelly, 2010, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. B, Biol. Sci., 277: 915. Type species: Caecilita iwokramae Wake and Donnelly, 2010, by original designation. Synonymy by Wilkinson, Kok, Ahmed, and Gower, 2014, Zootaxa, 3779: 383.
English Names
Tiny Caecilians (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 24).
Colombian Caecilians (Parvicaecilia [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 24).
Distribution
Northwestern Colombia; Ecuador through southern Venezuela to the Guianas; São Paulo, Brazil.
Comment
Taylor, 1969, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 48: 313, provided a key to the species in this genus. Wilkinson and Nussbaum, 2006, In Exbrayat (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylog. Gymnophiona: 39-78 [66-67], rediagnosed the taxon and suggested that its monophyly is undocumented. Kok and Kalamandeen, 2008, Intr. Taxon. Amph. Kaieteur Natl. Park: 244-245, provided an account of a Microcaecilia sp. from Guyana. : Wilkinson, O'Connor, and Nussbaum, 2013, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 744: 1-12, revised the redelimited the genus and reviewed its morphology and provided an identification key to the species. Wilkinson, Kok, Ahmed, and Gower, 2014, Zootaxa, 3779: 383-388, discussed the lung morphology of the genus.
Contained taxa (16 sp.):
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