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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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Litoria calliscelis (Peters, 1874)

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

Hyla calliscelis Peters, 1874, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1874: 620. Syntypes: ZMB 8251 (2 specimens) according to Tyler, 1985, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 61: 336 (not found by Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 43, who considered there to be a single holotype, although Peters mentions two specimens, located by Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 42). ZMB 92805 designated lectotype by Parkin, Rowley, Elliott-Tate, Mahony, Sumner, Melville, and Donnellan, 2024, Zootaxa, 5406: 25. Type locality: "Adelaide", South Australia.

Hyla ewingii var. calliscelis — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 407.

Hyla inguinalis Ahl, 1935, Zool. Anz., 109: 252. Holotype: ZMB 14080 according to Tyler, 1985, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 61: 336. Type locality: "Südaustralien (wahrscheinlich Umgebung von Adelaide)". Synonymy with Hyla ewingii by Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 280; with Hyla calliscelis by Parkin, Rowley, Elliott-Tate, Mahony, Sumner, Melville, and Donnellan, 2024, Zootaxa, 5406: 25.

Hyla ewingii calliscelis — Copland, 1957, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 82: 60.

Rawlinsonia calliscelis — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 6.

Litoria calliscelis — Parkin, Rowley, Elliott-Tate, Mahony, Sumner, Melville, and Donnellan, 2024, Zootaxa, 5406: 1.

Common Names

South Australian Tree Frog (Parkin, Rowley, Elliott-Tate, Mahony, Sumner, Melville, and Donnellan, 2024, Zootaxa, 5406: 25).

Distribution

Mount Lofty Ranges and Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

Removed from the synonym of Litoria ewingii by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 6, without discussion, but with supporting evidence (comparative morphology molecular markers, and advertisement call) by Parkin, Rowley, Elliott-Tate, Mahony, Sumner, Melville, and Donnellan, 2024, Zootaxa, 5406: 1–36 (who placed it as the sister taxon of Litoria sibilus). It had been placed in the synonymy of Litoria ewingii by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 406. Elliott-Tate and Rowley, 2024, Aust. J. Zool., 72(ZO23026): 1–13, reported on variation in the advertisement call as part of a comparative study of the species in the Litoria ewingii complex.

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