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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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Agalychnis moreletii (Duméril, 1853)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Phyllomedusinae > Genus: Agalychnis > Species: Agalychnis moreletii

Hyla moreletii Duméril, 1853, Ann. Sci. Nat., Paris, Ser. 3, 19: 169. Syntypes: MNHNP 428 (parchment labeled 767) (2 specimens), according to Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 146; Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 25. Type locality: "Vera-Paz", Guatemala; corrected to "Cobán in [Departamento Alta] Vera Paz, Guatemala" by Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 146, and this followed by Smith and Taylor, 1950, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 33: 317.

Hyla holochlora Salvin, 1860, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1860: 460. Syntypes: BMNH (3 specimens), 2 not currently located but including BMNH 1947.2.24.23 (formerly 1864.1.26.142), considered holotype in error by Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 147; Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 91. Type locality: "Coban", Departamento de Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Synonymy by Keferstein, 1867, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 18: 356; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 442.

Agalychnis holochlora — Cope, 1865, Nat. Hist. Rev., N.S., 5: 110.

Agalychnis moreletii — Cope, 1865, Nat. Hist. Rev., N.S., 5: 110; Lutz, 1950, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 48: 619.

Hyla Morelettii — Keferstein, 1868, Arch. Naturgesch., 34: 297. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Phyllomedusa moreletii — Kellogg, 1932, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 160: 146.

Phyllomedusa (Agalychnis) moreletii — Lutz, 1950, Mem. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 48: 601, 619.

Agalychnis moreletti — Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 7. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

English Names

Popeye Hyla (Smith, 1945, Ward’s Nat. Sci. Bull., 1: 4).

Morelet's Leaf Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 16; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52; Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 87; Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 73; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 92; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 7).

Morelet's Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 52).

Black-eyed Leaf Frog (Ready and Fenolio, 1994, Vivarium, 5: 26-29).

Distribution

In disjunct populations from on both Atlantic and Pacific slopes from Veracruz, adjacent Puebla, and western Guerrero through Chiapas, Mexico, to the Maya Mountains of Belize, Guatemala, northwestern Honduras, and El Salvador, 200 to 2130 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico

Comment

See account by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 112–116, and note by Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 840. See also accounts by Lee, 1996, Amph. Rept. Yucatan Peninsula: 86-87; Campbell, 1998, Amph. Rept. N. Guatemala Yucatan Belize: 75–76, Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 92–93; and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 236–239. Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén, and Salazar-Arenas, 2000, Herpetol. Rev., 31: 259, provided the first report for Puebla. Köhler, Veselý, and Greenbaum, 2005 "2006", Amph. Rept. El Salvador: 35–37, provided an account (for El Salvador) and a color photograph. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 37, detailed the departmental distribution in Honduras. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 239. Urbina-Cardona and Loyola, 2008, Tropical Conserv. Sci., 1: 417–445, modeled the distribution. In the Agalychis callidryas group of Faivovich, Haddad, Baêta, Jungfer, Álvares, Brandão, Sheil, Barrientos, Barrio-Amorós, Cruz, and Wheeler, 2010, Cladistics, 26: 259. Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 198–201, provided a key to the species of Central America and provided a map and photograph of the species, including this one. Vázquez-Arroyo, Santos-Bibiano, and Palacios-Aguilar, 2023, Rev. Latinoam. Herpetol., 6: 17–20, provided new records for Guerrero, Mexico, and a dot map for the species east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

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