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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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Smilisca sordida (Peters, 1863)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Hylinae > Genus: Smilisca > Species: Smilisca sordida

Hyla sordida Peters, 1863, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 460. Syntypes: ZMB 3141 (2 specimens), according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 177, and Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 42. Type locality: "Veragua", Panama.

Hyla gabbi Cope, 1875 "1876", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 8: 103. Syntypes: USNM 30658–59 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 54. Type locality: "near Sipurio", Cantón de Talamanca, Provincia de Limón, Costa Rica. Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 108, commented on the type locality. Synonymy by Duellman and Trueb, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 323.

Hyla nigripes Cope, 1875 "1876", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 8: 104. Syntypes: USNM 30685–86 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 56. Type locality: "Pico Blanco, chiefly in the rainy zone, from 5000 to 7000 feet", Provincia Limón, Costa Rica. Corrected to "Cerro Utyum, 5000–7000 ft, Cantón de Talamanca, Provincia de Limón; 1524–2134 m", Costa Rica, by Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 111. Synonymy by Duellman and Trueb, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 323.

Hyla salvini Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 372. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.24.12 (formerly 1868.8.17.6 [Costa Rica], 1947.2.24.13 (formerly 1871.11.22.49 [Cartago]) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 95. Type locality: "Cartago", Cantón de Cartago, Provincia Cartago, Costa Rica, and "Costa Rica". Savage, 1974, Rev. Biol. Tropical, 22: 106, commented on the type localities. Synonymy with Hyla gabbi by Günther, 1901, Biol. Centr. Amer., Rept. Batr., Vol. 7, Part 166: 274; Werner, 1903, Abh. Math. Physik. Cl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., 22: 351; Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 252.

Hyla sordida — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 393.

Hyla nigripes — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 394.

Smilisca gabbi — Starrett, 1960, Copeia, 1960: 303.

Smilisca sordida — Duellman and Trueb, 1966, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 17: 323.

English Names

Veragua Cross-banded Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 65).

Distribution

Northeastern Honduras; southern Nicaragua through Costa Rica to western Panama; central Magdalena River Valley (Department of Santander), Colombia, sea level to 1525 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama

Comment

See accounts by Duellman, 1968, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 64: 1–2, Duellman, 1970, Monogr. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas: 613–618, Duellman, 2001, Hylid Frogs Middle Am., Ed. 2: 995, Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 355–357, and McCranie and Wilson, 2002, Amph. Honduras: 342–344. Lips and Savage, 1996, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 109: 17–26, included this species in a key to the tadpoles found in Costa Rica. See comment under Smilisca sila. McCranie, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 39, detailed the departmental range in Honduras. See comments by Sunyer, Páiz, Dehling, and Köhler, 2009, Herpetol. Notes, 2: 189–202, regarding Nicaraguan populations. Travers, Townsend, Sunyer, Obando, Wilson, and Nickerson, 2011, Herpetol. Rev., 42: 399, noted a new locality in Nicaragua (Jinotega). Köhler, 2011, Amph. Cent. Am.: 265–268, provided a brief summary of natural history and identification key for the species of Smilisca in Central America and provided a range map and photograph for this species.. Sunyer, Martínez-Fonseca, Salazar-Saavedra, Galindo-Uribe, and Obando, 2014, Mesoam. Herpetol., 1: 170, provided a record for the department of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. Martínez-Fonseca, Holmes, Sunyer, Westeen, Grundler, Cerda, Fernández-Mena, Loza-Molina, Monagan, Nondorf, Pandelis, and Rabosky, 2024, Check List, 20: 73, provided and discussed a record from Refugio Bartola, Departamento Río San Juan, Nicaragua.

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