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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 freycineti Tschudi, 1838

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

Litoria freycineti Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 77. Syntypes: MNHNP 246 (2 specimens), according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 20. Type locality: "Nova Hollandia" (= Australia). Given as "Port-Jackson" by Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 505.

Lepthyla freycinetii — Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 504. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Litoria freycineti — Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 504.

Lepthyla freycineti — Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 504.

Pelobius freycineti — Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 31.

Hyla freycinetii — Keferstein, 1867, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 18: 355.

Hyla (Litoria) freycinetii var. verruculata Keferstein, 1867, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 18: 355. Syntypes: Not stated; presumed lost by Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 43, Böhme and Bischoff, 1984, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 19: 168, and Böhme, 2014, Mertensiella, 21: 87. Type locality: "Australien".

Litoria copei Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 56. Holotype: NHMW 16381, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 24, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 28. Type locality: "Neu-Südwales" [= New South Wales, Australia]. Considered a synonym of Litoria lesueurii by Peters, 1873, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 611; placed provisionally in the same synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 412. Considered a synonym of Litoria freycineti by Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 302.

Hyla (Litoria?) copei — Keferstein, 1868, Arch. Naturgesch., 34: 278.

Litoria copii — O'Shaughnessy, 1875, Zool. Rec., 10: 97. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Litoria freycineti — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 353.

Common Names

Freycinet's Frog (Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 302; Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 95; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 59; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 54).

Wallum Rocketfrog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 222).

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

Wallum Rocket Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 64).

Distribution

East coast of southern Queensland south from Fraser Island to Jervis Bay in southeastern New South Wales, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

See Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 302. In the Litoria freycineti group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 27. In the Litoria lesueuri complex, Litoria latopalmata group, according to Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 59). See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 258. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 54–55. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 25, provided a polygon distribution map.

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