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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 platycephala (Günther, 1873)

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

Chiroleptes platycephalus Günther, 1873, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 4, 11: 350. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.18.42, according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 37. Type locality: "Fort Bourke", New South Wales, Australia.

Phractops platycephalus — Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 520; Waite, 1929, Rept. Amph. S. Aust.: 246.

Cyclorana platycephalus — Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 22; Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 329.

Cyclorana slevini Loveridge, 1950, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 63: 131. Holotype: CAS 82052, by original designation. Type locality: "Noondoo, southeastern Queensland near the Queensland-New South Wales border", Australia. Synonymy by Tyler, 1990, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 114: 84. Resurrected; without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5.

Neophractops platycephalus — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5.

Neophractops slevini — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5.

Cyclorana platycephala — Duellman, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 178.

Litoria (Cyclorana) platycephala — 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 platycephalus — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40.

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

Common Names

Flat-headed Frog (Cochran, 1961, Living Amph. World: 95; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 52).

Water-holding Frog (Waite, 1929, Rept. Amph. S. Aust.: 246; Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 51; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 52; Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 222; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 169; Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 45; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 24).

Common Water-holding Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52).

Eastern Water-holding Frog ( Anstis, Price, Roberts, Catalano, Hines, Doughty, and Donnellan, 2016, Zootaxa, 4126: 463).

Distribution

Drier inland regions of Australia in two allopatric populations: 1) Barkly Tablelands of the Northern Territory, and 2) northeastern South Australia, southern Queensland, and northern New South Wales, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

Suggested to be a complex of cryptic species; without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5. See accounts by Tyler, 1978, Amph. S. Aust.: 43–45, and Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 45. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 24–25. Anstis, Price, Roberts, Catalano, Hines, Doughty, and Donnellan, 2016, Zootaxa, 4126: 451–479, named the western segregate Cyclorana occidentalis and redelimited this species. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 16, provided a polygon distribution map (as Cyclorana platycephala).

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