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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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Pristimantis chalceus (Peters, 1873)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Strabomantidae > Subfamily: Pristimantinae > Genus: Pristimantis > Species: Pristimantis chalceus

Phyllobates chalceus Peters, 1873, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 609. Syntypes: ZSM 1045/0 (2 specimens), lost, according to Lynch, 1980, Herpetologica, 36: 179, Glaw and Franzen, 2006, Spixiana, München, 29: 174, and ZMB 7814 according to Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 46. Type locality: "Pastassathal" (= Pastaza Valley); corrected to "Pastassa-Tal [= Pastaza Valley] (Colombia)" by Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 402. Locality considered in error by Lynch, 1980, Herpetologica, 36: 175–189.

Syrrhopus chalceus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 197.

Hypodictyon chalceus — Cope, 1885 "1884", Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 22: 383.

Syrrhopus areolatus Boulenger, 1898, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1898: 122. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.15.38–39 (formerly 1898.4.28.110–11) according to Lynch, 1980, Herpetologica, 36: 187, and museum records. Type localities: "Cachabé [= Cachabí], a small village [about 10 miles southeast of Concepción] on the river of that name, on the N.W. Coast, in the Prov. Esmeraldas", Ecuador, and "Chimbo", also noted in the original publication as "Puente del Chimbo, the railway terminus about 70 miles from Guayaquil, at an elevation of about 1000 feet", Ecuador. Lynch and Myers, 1983, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 175: 515, discussed Cachabé and noted that it is not the same as San Javier de Cachabí. Synonymy by Lynch, 1980, Herpetologica, 36: 179.

Syrrhophus chalceus — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 402.

Syrrhophus areolatus — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 402.

Eleutherodactylus areolatus — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 198, by implication; Lynch, 1968, Herpetologica, 24: 289–300.

Eleutherodactylus chalceus — Myers, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 198, by implication; Lynch, 1968, Herpetologica, 24: 289–300.

Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) chalceus — Lynch, 1996, in Powell and Henderson (eds.), Contr. W. Indian Herpetol.: 154. Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222.

Pristimantis chalceus — Heinicke, Duellman, and Hedges, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Suppl. Inform., 104: Table 2; Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 125.

Pristimantis (Pristimantis) chalceus — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 119. See comment under Pristimantis regarding subgenera.

English Names

Valley Robber Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 73).

Copper Rainfrog (Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 61).

Distribution

Chocoan lowlands and adjacent Andean slopes in western Colombia and Ecuador, 10 to 1910 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Ecuador

Comment

Transferred from Syrrhophus to Eleutherodactylus by Lynch, 1968, Herpetologica, 24: 291, who provided an account and also placed it in the Eleutherodactylus unistrigatus group. See comment under Eleutherodactylus scolodiscus. Redescribed (as Eleutherodactylus areolatus) by Lynch, 1970, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 73: 177–180. See account by Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 79–81. In the Eleutherodactylus (Eleutherodactylus) martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus diastema group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 222. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 227, placed this species in his Eleutherodactylus martinicensis series, Eleutherodactylus diastema group. In the Pristimantis chalceus group of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 119, and of Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 125. Arteaga-Navarro, Bustamante, and Guayasamin, 2013, Amph. Rept. Mindo: 61–62, provided an account and dot map for Ecuador.

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