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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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Platypelis Boulenger, 1882

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Cophylinae > Genus: Platypelis

16 species

Platypelis Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 474. Type species: Platypelis cowanii Boulenger, 1882, by monotypy.

Platypelis Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 474. Type species: Platypelis cowanii Boulenger, 1882, by monotypy. Synonymy by Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 138; Peloso, Raxworthy, Wheeler, and Frost, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 111: 56–64.

Platyhyla Boulenger, 1889, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 4: 247. Type species: Platyhyla grandis Boulenger, 1889, by monotypy. Synonymy by Guibé, 1978, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 11: 115.

Paracophyla Millot and Guibé, 1951, Mem. Inst. Sci. Madagascar, Ser. A, 5: 209. Type species: Paracophyla tuberculata Millot and Guibé, 1951, by monotypy. Synonymy with Platypelis by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 70.

English Names

Giant Treefrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 91).

Distribution

Madagascar.

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Cophyla by Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 417, where it had been placed by Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 138, and Peloso, Raxworthy, Wheeler, and Frost, 2017, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 111: 56–64. Peloso, Frost, Richards, Rodrigues, Donnellan, Matsui, Raxworthy, Biju, Lemmon, Lemmon, and Wheeler, 2016, Cladistics, 32: 113–140, had recovered Platypelis to be paraphyletic with respect to Cophyla and synonymized the genera. See accounts by Blommers-Schlösser and Blanc, 1991, Faune de Madagascar, 75: 70–87, and Glaw and Vences, 2007, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Madagascar, Ed. 3: 132–137, and who noted that many unnamed species are contained within this genus. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543–583, suggested that Platypelis (along with Stumpffia and Rhombophryne) renders Plethodontohyla paraphyletic and they provided a phylogenetic estimate of exemplar species.

Contained taxa (16 sp.):

Platypelis alticola (Guibé, 1973)

Platypelis ando Scherz, Köhler, Vences, and Glaw, 2019

Platypelis barbouri Noble, 1940

Platypelis cowanii Boulenger, 1882

Platypelis grandis (Boulenger, 1889)

Platypelis karenae Rosa, Crottini, Noel, Rabibisoa, Raxworthy, and Andreone, 2014

Platypelis laetus (Rakotoarison, Scherz, Köhler, Ratsoavina, Hawlitschek, Megson, Vences, and Glaw, 2020)

Platypelis mavomavo Andreone, Fenolio, and Walvoord, 2003

Platypelis milloti Guibé, 1950

Platypelis olgae Rakotoarison, Glaw, Vieites, Raminosoa, and Vences, 2012

Platypelis pollicaris Boulenger, 1888

Platypelis ranjomena Glaw, Scherz, Rakotoarison, Crottini, Raselimanana, Andreone, Köhler, and Vences, 2020

Platypelis ravus Glaw, Köhler, and Vences, 2012

Platypelis tetra Andreone, Fenolio, and Walvoord, 2003

Platypelis tsaratananaensis Guibé, 1973

Platypelis tuberifera (Methuen, 1920)

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