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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 pearsoniana (Copland, 1961)

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

Hyla pearsoni Copland, 1960, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 85: 154. Holotype: AMS R18588, by original designation. Type locality: "branch of Cedar Creek, east of Mt. Glorious, about 20 miles north-west of Brisbane, Queensland", Australia. Junior homonym of Hyla pearsoni Gaige, 1929.

Hyla pearsoniana Copland, 1961, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 86: 168. Replacement name for Hyla pearsoni Copland, 1960.

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

Litoria pearsoniana — Barker and Grigg, 1977, Field Guide Aust. Frogs: 56.

Dryopsophus pearsoniana — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5. Disagreement in gender.

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

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

English Names

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

Cedar Creek Treefrog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 60).

Pearson's Green Tree Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 126; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 58).

Distribution

Elevated areas of southeastern Queensland and extreme northeastern New South Wales, Australia, 200–1000 m elevation.

Comment

In the Litoria citropa group of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 20. Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 48, considered Litoria pearsoniana to be a junior synonym of Litoria phyllochroa but provided no evidence to contradict evidence of dispecificity provided by Barker and Grigg, 1977, Field Guide Aust. Frogs: 54–56 (call differences), or King, 1981, in Banks and Martin (eds.), Proc. Melbourne Herpetol. Symp.: 172 (chromosomal differences). See McDonald and Davies, 1990, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 114: 145–156, for account. Parris, 2001, Biol. Conserv., 99: 285–292, discussed habitat requirements and range. Donnellan, McGuigan, Knowles, Mahony, and Moritz, 1999, Aust. J. Zool., 47: 275–293, discussed taxonomic issues and species boundaries with other members of the group. See comment under Litoria phyllochroa. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 616. Hoskin, Hines, Meyer, Clarke, and Cunningham, 2013, Zootaxa, 3646: 427, suggested that Litoria piperata is a junior synonym. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 30, provided a polygon distribution map (as Litoria pearsoniana). Cutajar and Rowley, 2022, J. Herpetol., 56: 318–323, provided dot- and polygon maps (as Litoria pearsoniana).

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