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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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Craugastor tarahumaraensis (Taylor, 1940)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Brachycephaloidea > Family: Craugastoridae > Genus: Craugastor > Species: Craugastor tarahumaraensis

Eleutherodactylus tarahumaraensis Taylor, 1940, Copeia, 1940: 250. Holotype: EHT-HMS 23008, by original designation; now UIMNH 15955, according to J.D. Lynch In Frost, 1985, Amph. Species World: 333. Type locality: "Mojárachic, Chihuahua, in the Tarahumara Mountains at an elevation of about 6900 feet", Mexico.

Hylactophryne tarahumaraensis — Lynch, 1968, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 511.

Eleutherodactylus tarahumaraensis — Hedges, 1989, in Woods (ed.), Biogeograph. W. Indies: 317, by implication.

Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) tarahumaraensis — Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233.

Craugastor tarahumaraensis — Crawford and Smith, 2005, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 35: 551, by implication; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 361.

Craugastor (Hylactophryne) tarahumaraensis — Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 44.

English Names

Tarahumara Barking Frog (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 21; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 79; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 11).

Distribution

Pine-oak and pine forests of eastern Sonora and western Chihuahua to southern Durango and Jalisco, Mexico, along the Sierra Madre Occidental.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

In the Eleutherodactylus (Craugastor) augusti group according to Lynch and Duellman, 1997, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Spec. Publ., 23: 233. See account by Zweifel, 1956, Am. Mus. Novit., 1813: 28-33. Removed from a monophyletic Craugastor by Lynch, 2000, Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat., 24: 130. In the Craugastor augusti species series of Hedges, Duellman, and Heinicke, 2008, Zootaxa, 1737: 44. Padial, Grant, and Frost, 2014, Zootaxa, 3825: 123, rejected species groups within the subgenus Hylactophryne. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 312. Ferguson, Turner, Hale, Villa, Hedgecock, and Enderson, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 438-439, provided a record for the Sierra de Bacadéhuachi, municipality of Bacadéhuachi, Sonora, Mexico, and discussed the range of the species in Sonora and adjacent Chihuahua. Lemos-Espinal, 2007, Anf. Rept. Chihuahua Mexico: 50–51, provided an account (as Eleutherodactylus tarahumaraensis) for Chihuahua, Mexico. Enderson, Van Devender, and Bezy, 2014, Check List, 10: 921, provided additional localities in eastern Sonora, Mexico, and sympatry with Craugastor augusti. Rorabaugh and Lemos-Espinal, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Sonora: 151–153, provided a detailed account of natural history, morphology, distribution, and conservation status in Sonora, Mexico. Lemos-Espinal, Smith, and Valdes-Lares, 2019, Amph. Rept. Durango: 59–60, provided a brief account for Durango, Mexico. Rorabaugh, 2022, Herpetol. Rev., 53: 70, provided a low elevational record (1391 m) from 88 km ESE Guisamopa, Sonora, Mexico.

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