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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
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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"
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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 rothii (De Vis, 1884)

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

Hyla rothii De Vis, 1884, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 9: 66. Syntypes: 4 syntypes noted, formerly in QM, now lost according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 49; Boulenger, 1885, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 16: 387, records 3 syntypes exchanged to the BMNH. Type locality: "Mackay", Queensland, Australia.

Litoria rothii — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 354; Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 39.

Pengilleyia rothi — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 6.

English Names

Red-eyed Treefrog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 222).

Roth's Tree Frog (Tyler, Smith, and Johnstone, 1984, Frogs W. Aust.: 73; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 64; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 97; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 36).

Rust-eyed Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 60; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Cackle Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Laughing Tree Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Northern Laughing Tree Frog (Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 81).

Distribution

Northern Australia from northern Western Australia to Queensland north of Mary River; southern Papua New Guinea between the Bensbach and Binaturi Rivers, all near sea level.

Comment

In the Litoria peronii group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 39. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 104–105, provided a brief account for this species which he included in his Litoria amboinensis complex. See account by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 81. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 36–37. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 31, provided a polygon distribution map.

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