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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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Austrochaperina gracilipes Fry, 1912

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Austrochaperina > Species: Austrochaperina gracilipes

Austrochaperina gracilipes Fry, 1912, Rec. Aust. Mus., 9: 93. Holotype: AMS 4536 according to Cogger, 1979, Rec. Aust. Mus., 32: 178. Type locality: "Somerset, Cape York, North Queensland", Australia.

Sphenophryne gracilipes — Nieden, 1926, Das Tierreich, 49: 48; Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 155; Zweifel, 1985, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 182: 289.

Austrochaperina gracilipes — Zweifel, 2000, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 253: 32.

Asterophrys gracilipes — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 465.

Common Names

Slender Nursey Frog (Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 200).

Shrill Chirper (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 222).

Golden Land Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 92).

Slender Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 360; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 102).

Distribution

Lowland rainforest of Cape York Peninsula north of Cooktown (Queensland, Australia) and southern Papua New Guinea; iNaturalist observation from near Meruake, Papua, New Guinea (see comment) may document this species in that political unit.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia, Indonesia, Indonesia - Papua Region, Papua New Guinea

Comment

According to R. G. Zweifel (pers. comm.), Zweifel, 1965, Am. Mus. Novit., 2214: 2, erred in placing Sphenophryne gracilipes in the synonymy of Sphenophryne robusta. See accounts by Zweifel, 1962, Am. Mus. Novit., 2113; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 360; and Zweifel, 2000, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 253: 32 (who noted that Austrochaperina gracilipes may be a junior synonym of Microbatrachus pusillus). Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 219, provided a brief account. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 102–103. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 200, provided a brief account, photograph, and polygon distribution map for Australia. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 8, provided a polygon distribution map for Australia. Oliver, Davie-Rieck, Ramdani, Dashper, Kusuma, Lee, Rittmeyer, Clancy, Hamidy, Thompson, Fouquet, Ferreira, and Richards, 2025, Pacific Conserv. Biol., 31(PC24063): 1–12, as part of a larger discussion of the role of citizen science in documenting species ranges in Melanesia noted that iNaturalist observations suggest a range extension to near Maruake in extreme southern Papua, Indonesia, near the Papua New Guinea border.

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