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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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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 moorei (Copland, 1957)

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

Hyla moorei Copland, 1957, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 82: 83. Synyptes: AMS R2347-57, R131740-52 (Perth); AMS R4953-54 (Western Australia); AMS R5297-300 (Albany); AMS R7476 (Donnybrook); AMS R7531 (Newcastle); AMS R7576-77, 7579-83 (Perth); AMS R7696 (Tudor, 27 mi. from Albany); AMS R7698-99 (Albany); AMS R10463 (SW Australia); AMS R10953, 131753-56 (near Perth); AMS R 11537 (Tambellup); AMS R 131735 (Western Australia); AMS R131736-39 (King George Sound); WAM 119 (Subiaco); WAM 301-02 (Denmark); WAM WAM 529-530 (East Perth); WAM 627 (Perth), WAM 1152-53 (Tambellup), WAM R1178 (Midland Junction), WAM 1210-13 (Lake Yanchep), WAM 2025-27, 6268-76 (Rottnest), WAM 3739 (Mt. Lawley), WAM 3800 (Elleker), WAM 4585 (Karridale), WAM 4664 (Lake Clifton), WAM 5980-81, 8539-40 (Pemberton), WAM 8404 (Bridgetown), WAM 8462 (Gin Gin), WAM 9459 (no data), MCZ (Perth), WAM R5981 (Pemberton), according to Shea and Sadlier, 1999, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus., 15: 6. WAM R5981 designated lectotype by Cogger, 1983, In Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 46. Type localities: "Perth, W.A.", "Coolgardie, W.A. [in error according to Shea and Sadlier, 1999, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus., 15: 6]", "Albany, W.A.", "Donnybook, W.A.", "Newcastle, W.A.", "Tudor, W.A.", "S-W Australia", "King George Sound, W.A.", "Subiaco, W.A","Denmark, W.A.","East Perth, W.A.", "Karridale, W.A.", "Pemberton, W.A.", "Gin Gin, W.A.", "Midland Junction, W.A.", "Lake Yanchep, W.A.", "Mt. Lawley, W.A.", "Elleker, W.A.", "Rottnest, W.A.", "Lake Clifton, W.A.", "Tambellup, W.A."; lectotype from "Pemberton, W[estern]. A[ustralia].", Australia.

Litoria moorei — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 354.

Ranoidea moorei — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 6.

Dryopsophus moorei — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40.

Ranoidea moorei — Dubois and Frétey, 2016, Dumerilia, 6: 21.

English Names

Western Green and Golden Bell Frog (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 100; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 63; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 60).

Bull Frog (Tyler, Smith, and Johnstone, 1984, Frogs W. Aust.: 71).

Moore's Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 104).

Motorbike Frog (Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 78; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 66; Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 45).

Distribution

Southwestern Western Australia: from the Murchison Rivr south and east to Pallinup River, inland to Three Springs, Dalwallinu and Lake Dumbleyung; Rottnest Island.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

In the Litoria aurea group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 12, and the Litoria aurea complex of Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 100. See Maxson, Tyler, and Maxson, 1982, Aust. J. Zool., 30: 643, and Tyler, Smith, and Johnstone, 1984, Frogs W. Aust.. See Shea and Sadlier, 1999, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus., 15: 6, for discussion of types. See account by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 78, who noted a hybrid zone with Litoria cyclorhyncha with which it may be conspecific. See brief accounts by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 66-67, and Bush, Maryan, Browne-Cooper, and Robinson, 2010, Field Guide Rept. Amph. Perth Region, 2nd Ed.: 45. See Ellis, Doughty, and Roberts, 2017, Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 32: 23–24, for comments on the type series. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 28, provided a polygon distribution map (as Litoria myola).

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