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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.
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Triprion Cope, 1866

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Triprion

3 species

Pharyngodon Cope, 1865, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 17: 193. Type species: Pharyngodon petasatus Cope, 1865, by monotypy. Preoccupied by Pharyngodon Diesing, 1861. Synonymy by Cope, 1866, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 18: 127.

Triprion Cope, 1866, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 18: 127. Type species: Pharyngodon petasatus Cope, 1865, by monotypy.

Diaglena Cope, 1887, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 32: 12. Type species: Triprion spatulatus Günther, 1882, by monotypy. Synonymy by Faivovich, Pereyra, Luna, Hertz, Blotto, Vásquez-Almazán, McCranie, Sánchez, Baêta, Araujo-Vieira, Köhler, Kubicki, Campbell, Frost, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2018, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 13: 11.

Anotheca Smith, 1939, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 52: 190. Type species: Gastrotheca coronata Stejneger, 1911 (= Hyla spinosa Steindachner, 1864), by original designation. Synonymy by Faivovich, Pereyra, Luna, Hertz, Blotto, Vásquez-Almazán, McCranie, Sánchez, Baêta, Araujo-Vieira, Köhler, Kubicki, Campbell, Frost, Wheeler, and Haddad, 2018, S. Am. J. Herpetol., 13: 11.

English Names

Casquehead Treefrogs (Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 29; Lee, 2000, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Maya World: 116).

Casque-headed Treefrogs (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 26).

Shovel-headed Treefrogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).

Spinyhead Treefrog (Anotheca [no longer recognized]: Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 16).

Spiny-headed Treefrogs (Anotheca [no longer recognized]:Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 7).

Distribution

Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, Guatemala, and into Honduras; Pacific lowlands of Mexico (Sinaloa to Oaxaca); Disjunctly in humid forests, primarily in the premontane zone, in eastern Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas, 800-2068 m), northeastern Honduras (95 m), Atlantic versant Costa Rica and western Panama, and from southwestern Costa Rica to west-central Panama on the Pacific slopes (350-1330 m elevation).

Comment

For discussion see Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 628-640, and Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 998, provided phylogenetic discussion and accounts of the species. Savage, 2002, Copeia, 2002: 549, provided evidence for close relationship of Triprion, Smilisca, and Pternohyla. In Hylini of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 89. Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 25, considered Triprion to be a synonym of Hyla. Smith, Arif, Nieto-Montes de Oca, and Wiens, 2007, Evolution, 61: 2075-2085, removed Triprion spatulatus to Diaglena to remedy the paraphyly of "Triprion" with respect to Anotheca.

Former Anotheca was placed in Amphignathodontinae (part of the Hemiphractinae of this list) by Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 18; see Duellman and Trueb, 1976, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 58: 12, Maxson, 1977, Syst. Zool., 26: 72-76, and Sessions, 1978, Herpetologica, 34: 70-73, for placement in Hylinae. In Hylini of Faivovich, Haddad, Garcia, Frost, Campbell, and Wheeler, 2005, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 294: 98. Wiens, Fetzner, Parkinson, and Reeder, 2005, Syst. Biol., 54: 743, considered Anotheca to be part of their enlarged Hyla.

Smith, Arif, Nieto-Montes de Oca, and Wiens, 2007, Evolution, 61: 2075-2085, removed Triprion spatulatus to Diaglena to remedy the paraphyly of "Triprion" with respect to Anotheca. Trueb, 1970, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 18: 602, had considered Diaglena to be a junior synonym of Triprion.

Contained taxa (3 sp.):

Triprion petasatus (Cope, 1865)

Triprion spatulatus Günther, 1882

Triprion spinosus (Steindachner, 1864)

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