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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 watjulumensis (Copland, 1957)

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

Hyla latopalmata watjulumensis Copland, 1957, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 82: 13, 96. Syntypes: WAM R6011 R10491, R10499, and R10501 (Napier), R 8733-34 (Thompson's Spring, Argyle Station), R.11195-99, 11633-35, 11638, 11896-907, 11932-39 (Watjulum Mission), MCZ 18000 (Kimberley Division). Shea and Sadlier, 1999, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus., 15: 6, regarded AMS R6011 as a syntype. Tyler, 1968, Rec. S. Aust. Mus., 15: 713, who noted that the original type series was composed of Litoria watjulumensis, Litoria coplandi, and Litoria peronii); AMS R6011 considered possibly a syntype by Cogger, 1979, Rec. Aust. Mus., 32: 175. WAM R11896 designated lectotype by Donnellan, Catalano, Pederson, Mitchell, Suhendran, Price, Doughty, and Richards, 2021, Zootaxa, 4933: 220. Type localities: "Napier, Broom Bay, W[estern]. A[ustralia].", "Watjulum [= Wotjulum] Mission, W[estern]. A[ustralia.], "Thompson's Spring, Argyle Station", Western Australia, "Kimberley Division", Western Australia; restricted to Watjulum [= Wotjulum] Mission, Western Australia by Tyler, 1968, Rec. S. Aust. Mus., 15: 713. Lectotype locality is "Wotjulum, Western Australia (16°11’ S, 123°37’ E)"

Hyla wotjulumensis — Tyler, 1968, Rec. S. Aust. Mus., 15: 713. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Hyla watjulumensis Copland, 1957.

Litoria wotjulumensis — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 355; Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 48. Incorrect subsequent spelling of species name.

English Names

Giant Rocketfrog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 222; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

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

Watjulum Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 79; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Wotjulum Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63; Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 86; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 48).

Large Rocketfrog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Distribution

Kimberley region of north-western Australia and the Victoria River system of the western Northern Territory. See comment.

Comment

In the Litoria nigrofrenata group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 36. In the Litoria lesueuri complex, Litoria latopalmata group, according to Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 59). See account by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 86. See Ellis, Doughty, and Roberts, 2017, Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 32: 22–24, for comments on the type series of Hyla watjulumensis and Hyla spaldingi. Donnellan, Catalano, Pederson, Mitchell, Suhendran, Price, Doughty, and Richards, 2021, Zootaxa, 4933: 211– 240, revised Litoria watjulumensis with the resurrection of Litoria spaldingi, meaning that literature from prior to this partition should be used with caution. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 33, provided a polygon distribution map.

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