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
	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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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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Cophomantinae Hoffman, 1878

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Cophomantinae

183 species

Cophomantina Hoffmann, 1878, in Bronn (ed.), Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, 6(2): 614. Type genus: Cophomantis Peters, 1870.

Cophomantini — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 75.

Cophomantinae — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 29.

Cophinantina — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 181. Tribe.

Bokermannohylinia Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 181. Type genus: Bokermannohyla Faivovich et al., 2005. Infratribe.

Cophomantinia — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 182. Infratribe.

Hyloscirtina Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 182. Type genus: Hyloscirtus Peters, 1882. Subtribe.

Myersiohylini Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 182. Type genus: Myersiohyla Faivovich et al, 2005.

Nesorohylini Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 183. Type genus: Nesorohyla Pinheiro et al., 2018. Tribe.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Tropical and subtropical South America northward from Bolivia, Uruguay and northern Argentina to Nicaragua, and the Islands of Tobago and Trinidad.

Comment

Elevated to subfamily from tribal status under Hylinae by Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 29. It had been placed in the synonymy of Hylinae by implication of synonymy of Cophomantis with Hyla by Peters, 1873 "1872", Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1872: 772, and by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 337. See comments under Hylidae and Hylinae for access to relevant literature. Ferro, Cardozo, Suárez, Boeris, Blasco-Zuñiga, Barbero, Gomes, Gazoni, Costa, Nagamachi, Rivera, Parise-Maltempi, Wiley, Pieczarka, Haddad, Faivovich, and Baldo, 2018, PLoS One, 13(2: e0192861): 1–29, reported on the chromosome evolution within Cophomantini.

Contained taxa (183 sp.):

"Hyla" nicefori (Cochran and Goin, 1970)

Aplastodiscus Lutz, 1950 (16 sp.)

Boana Gray, 1825 (92 sp.)

Bokermannohyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005 (30 sp.)

Hyloscirtus Peters, 1882 (37 sp.)

Myersiohyla Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005 (6 sp.)

Nesorohyla Pinheiro, Kok, Noonan, Means, Haddad, and Faivovich, 2018 (1 sp.)

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