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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 wilcoxii (Günther, 1864)

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

Litoria wilcoxii Günther, 1864, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 48. also described as new by Günther, 1864, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 14: 314. Syntypes: BMNH (2 specimens), by original designation; these being BMNH 1947.2.22.76–77 (formerly 1864.7.6.67) according to Condit, 1964, J. Ohio Herpetol. Soc., 4: 96. BMNH 1947.2.22.76 designated lectotype by Donnellan and Mahony, 2004, Aust. J. Zool., 52: 49. Type locality: "Clarence River", New South Wales, Australia.

Hyla (Litoria) wilcoxi — Keferstein, 1868, Arch. Naturgesch., 34: 278.

Hyla vinosa Lamb, 1911, Ann. Queensland Mus., 10: 27. Holotype: QM J74. Type locality: "Ithaca Creek, Brisbane", Queensland, Australia. Synonymy by Fry, 1912, Rec. Aust. Mus., 9: 106, Loveridge, 1935, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 78: 51–52; Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 46; and Donnellan and Mahony, 2004, Aust. J. Zool., 52: 19.

Hyla lesueuri var. vinosa — Fry, 1912, Rec. Aust. Mus., 9: 106.

Hyla kinghorni Loveridge, 1950, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 63: 132. Holotype: AMS R13818 (formerly CAS 83234) according to Shea and Sadlier, 1999, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus., 15: 6. Type locality: "Ulong, northeastern New South Wales", Australia. Synonymy by Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 46 ; without discussion; Donnellan and Mahony, 2004, Aust. J. Zool., 52: 19. Synonymy rejected (also with no discussion) by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5.

Litoria kinghorni — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 353.

Litoria vinosa — Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 355. provisional combination.

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

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

English Names

Wilcox's Frog (Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 62).

Ithaca Creek Treefrog (Litoria vinosa [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 60).

Kinghorn's Treefrog (Litoria kinghorni [no longer recognized}; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 59).

Distribution

From the Paluma Range on the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, south to Hawksbury-Nepean River System in New South Wales, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Litoria lesueuri by Donnellan and Mahony, 2004, Aust. J. Zool., 52: 1 (following Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5, who provided no evidence) where it had been placed by Peters, 1873, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1873: 611; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 412. See account by Donnellan and Mahony, 2004, Aust. J. Zool., 52: 1–20. 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: 33, provided a polygon distribution map (as Litoria wilcoxii).

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