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* = "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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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 novaehollandiae (Steindachner, 1867)

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

Cyclorana novae-hollandiae Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 29. Syntypes: NHMW 4716-17 (probable). Type locality: Rockhampton, Queensland [Australia].

Phractops alutaceus Peters, 1867, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867: 31. Holotype: ZMB 5653 (probable), and possible syntypes are RMNH 3867 and AMNH 23581. Bauer, Günther, and Klipfel, 1995, in Bauer et al. (eds.), Herpetol. Contr. W.C.H. Peters: 43, suggested that the RMNH specimen was likely not part of the type series, although Gassó Miracle, van den Hoek Ostende, and Arntzen, 2007, Zootaxa, 1482: 51, disagreed with this assessment. Type locality: "Rockhampton in [Queensland,] O. Australien". Synonymy by Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 523; previously synonymized with Chiroleptes australis by Günther, 1868, Zool. Rec., 4: 145; and Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 269. See comment.

Cyclorana novaehollandiae — Tyler and Martin, 1975, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 99: 97.

Litoria (Cyclorana) novaehollandiae — Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 362.

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

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

English Names

New Holland Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 167).

Eastern Snapping-Frog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 222).

Wide-mouthed Frog (Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 20).

Distribution

Cape York Peninsula throughout Queensland to northern New South Wales, Australia.

Comment

In the Cyclorana australis complex; see Tyler and Martin, 1975, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 99: 93-99, who noted that possibly three species were masquerading under this name. According to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 37, evidence, not presented, exists that the name Phractops alutaceus was published before Cyclorana novaehollandiae although no change in usage was suggested. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 20–21. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 16, provided a polygon distribution map (as Cyclorana novaehollandiae).

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