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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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Boana beckeri (Caramaschi and Cruz, 2004)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Boana > Species: Boana beckeri

Hyla beckeri Caramaschi and Cruz, 2004, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 62: 248. Holotype: MNRJ 18753, by original designation. Type locality: "BRASIL: MINAS GERAIS: Poços de Caldas (22° 47′ S, 46° 34′ W, 1200 m) ".

Hypsiboas beckeri — Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 88.

Boana beckeri — Dubois, 2017, Bionomina, 11: 28.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known only from the vicinity of Poços de Caldas, São Thomé das Letras, and Pedralva in southern Minas Gerais, Brazil; also reported from the Municipality of Águas da Prata, state of São Paulo, Brazil.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Brazil

Endemic: Brazil

Comment

In the Hypsiboas polytaenius (as Hyla polytaenia) group according to the original publication. In the Hypsiboas pulchellus group of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 87–88. Orrico and Luna-Dias, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 358, provided a new locality in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Acioli and Toledo, 2008, Check List, 4: 182–184, discussed range and provided a new record for southern Minas Gerais, Brazil, as well as describing the advertisement call. Martins, Giaretta, Carvalho, and Miwa, 2016, Phyllomedusa, 15: 51–64, reported on vocalizations and provided a record from the state of São Paulo (Municipality of Águas da Prata). Faivovich, Pinheiro, Lyra, Pereyra, Baldo, Muñoz-Saravia, Reichle, Brandão, Giaretta, Thomé, Chaparro, Baêta, Widholzer, Baldo, Lehr, Wheeler, Garcia, and Haddad, 2021, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 155 (106981): 15, had placed this taxon into the synonymy of Boana polytaenia, but seemingly reluctantly. Shortly thereafter Vasconcellos, Colli, and Cannatella, 2021, J. Biogeograph., 48: 311, in a study that paralleled that of Faivovich et al. (2021) recovered Boana beckeri as the sister taxon of Boana latistriata and relatively distant from Boana polytaenia, albeit with a somewhat different set of gene sequences, alignment method, and tree-building method. Confronted with this kind of disagreement I (DRF) think the conservative path forward is to recognize Boana beckeri separate from Boana polytaenia, pending more work on the ground.

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