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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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Oreophryne biroi (Méhely, 1897)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Oreophryne > Species: Oreophryne biroi

Sphenophryne biroi Méhely, 1897, Termés. Füzetek, 20: 400, 411. Syntypes: MNH 21268/3 (2 specimens) (destroyed in 1956 according to XXX), NHMW 19825 (on exchange from Budapest, according to Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 34), and MZUT An567 (1 specimen) (according to Gavetti and Andreone, 1993, Cat. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat., Torino, 10: 114). Zweifel, Menzies, and Price, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3415: 5, 16. rejected all but the lost MNH specimens as types and designated UP 8134 as neotype. Type locality: "near Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen [= Madang]", Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Neotype is from "Kowat, Adelbert Mtns., 1000 m, 42 km N, 50 km W Madang", Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.

Mehelyia lineata Wandolleck, 1911 "1910", Abh. Ber. Zool. Anthropol. Ethnograph. Mus. Dresden, 13: 7. Syntypes: MTD (originally 10 specimens), destroyed in WWII, and BMNH 1929.5.19.1 (according to Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 170; now renumbered 1947.2.12.63 according to Zweifel, Menzies, and Price, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3415: 7). Type locality: "Sacksackhütte", Torricelli Mountains, Papua New Guinea. Synonymy by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 169; Zweifel, Menzies, and Price, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3415: 15.

Mehelyia affinis Wandolleck, 1911 "1910", Abh. Ber. Zool. Anthropol. Ethnograph. Mus. Dresden, 13: 8. Syntypes: MTD (presumably destroyed in WWII), NHMW 19826, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 25, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 29, and BMNH 1929.5.19.2–3 (formerly 1929.5.19.2–3, by museum records), according to Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 170 (now renumbered 1947.2.12.61–63, according to Zweifel, Menzies, and Price, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3415: 7). Type locality: "Sacksackhütte", Torricelli Mountains, Papua New Guinea. Synonymy by Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 169; Zweifel, Menzies, and Price, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3415: 15.

Oreophryne biroi — Van Kampen, 1919, Bijdr. Dierkd., 21: 54.

Phrynomantis biroi — Noble, 1926, Am. Mus. Novit., 212: 20, by implication.

Oreophryne biroi — Loveridge, 1948, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 101: 423.

Asterophrys biroi — Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 521, by implication.

Common Names

New Guinea Cross Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 91).

Distribution

North coast of New Guinea from the vicinity of Madang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, north and west at least to the Cyclopes Mountains near Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia, 0–1000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

See discussion by Zweifel, Menzies, and Price, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3415: 1–31. Kraus and Allison, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 364–368, provided a record for the Bewani Mountains, West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 206, provided a brief account. Shea and Kraus, 2007, Zootaxa, 1514: 37–60, commented on types.

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