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* = "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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Litoria albolabris (Wandolleck, 1911)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Pelodryadinae > Genus: Litoria > Species: Litoria albolabris

Hyla albolabris Wandolleck, 1911 "1910", Abh. Ber. Zool. Anthropol. Ethnograph. Mus. Dresden, 13: 12. Syntype(s): "Many" according to the original description; MTDK 2220 (2 specimens), according to the Dresden catalog. NHMW 16976 and SAMA R4947 were considered syntypes by Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 114, wthout comment. Obst, 1977, Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden, 34: 173, listed MTD D2220 as "holotype" (destroyed), which constituted a lectotype by indication at the time, and a paratype in NHMW. Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 18, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 22, considered NHMW 16976 to be a syntype, received from the MTKD. Tyler, 1990, Rec. S. Aust. Mus., 24: 2, reported SAMA R4947 as a syntype, apparently in error as there were only two specimens originally, one in the MTKD according to the MTKD type catalogue (H. Kaiser, personal. commun. 29 Jan 2013). Type locality: "Eitapé" (=Aitape), West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. H. Kaiser (personal commun. 29 Jan 2013): "In 1927, when Schüz prepared a type catalog of the Dresden collection, there were two specimens under the number MTD 2220. One of these was sent off as an exchange to Vienna in 1931. Thus, the specimen in Vienna is the remaining syntype of this species. Given the catalog entries, it is not possible that a specimen used by Wandolleck in his description was subsequently sent to Adelaide. Therefore, I believe Tyler to be in error. He may have listed a type specimen of a synonymous taxon under this name in error." Regardless, it seems that since Wandolleck himself mentions having many specimens before him that it is not too hard to imagine wide dispersal of multiple syntypes (thanks to John Bird, 26 June 2022).

Litoria albolabris — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 352.

Common Names

Wandolleck's White-lipped Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 59).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Aitape, West Sepik Province, northern coast of Papua New Guinea).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Papua New Guinea

Endemic: Papua New Guinea

Comment

In the Litoria albolabris group according to Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 6. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 149, provided a brief account.

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