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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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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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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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Ranoidea lesueuri (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Hylidae > Subfamily: Pelodryadinae > Genus: Ranoidea > Species: Ranoidea lesueuri

Hyla Lesueuri Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 595. Syntypes: MNHNP 4845-46, according to Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 21. Measurements for only one specimen supplied in original description. Type locality: "port Jackson" (= Sydney), New South Wales, Australia. Junior homonym of Hyla lesueurii Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1828, a nomen oblitum; see discussion by Shea, 2001, J. Herpetol., 35: 338-340.

Hyla oculata Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 595. Substitute name for Hyla lesueurii.

Euscelis lesueurii — Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 31. Incorrect subsequent spelling of the species name (double i, versus single i in the original).

Ranoidea flavoviridis Girard, 1853, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 6: 422. Syntypes: USNM 15484-85 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 77. Type locality: "Wollongong Illawarra; about fresh water streams", New South Wales, Australia. Synonymy by Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 294.

Euscelis lessonii Fitzinger, 1861 "1860", Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Phys. Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 42: 413. Replacement name (?) for Hyla lesueurii Duméril and Bibron, 1841.

Hyla (Litoria) freycinetii unicolor Keferstein, 1867, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 18: 355. Syntypes: ZFMK 28788-89 (formerly ZMG 102) according to Böhme and Bischoff, 1984, Bonn. Zool. Monogr., 19: 181. Type locality: "Australien". Synonymy by Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 46; Donnellan and Mahony, 2004, Aust. J. Zool., 52: 17.

Litoria lesueurii — Peters, 1873, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 611. Incorrect subsequent spelling of the species name (double i, versus single i in the original).

Dryopsophus lesueurii — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40. Incorrect subsequent spelling of the species name (double i, versus single i in the original).

Ranoidea lesueurii — Dubois and Frétey, 2016, Dumerilia, 6: 21. Incorrect subsequent spelling of the species name (double i, versus single i in the original).

English Names

LeSueur's Frog (Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 294; Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 99; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 63; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 68; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 62).

Stony Creek Frog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 222; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 68).

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

Distribution

Southeastern New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, and eastern Victoria, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

In the Litoria lesueuri group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 31. In the Litoria lesueuri complex, Litoria lesueuri group, according to Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 59). See account by Donnellan and Mahony, 2004, Aust. J. Zool., 52: 1–28. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 62–63. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 27, provided a polygon distribution map (as Litoria lesueuri).

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