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* = "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
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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"
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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 geislerorum (Boettger, 1892)

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

Cophixalus geislerorum Boettger, 1892, Kat. Batr. Samml. Mus. Senckenb. Naturforsch. Ges.: 24. Holotype: SMF 4197 (formerly 1171.2a) according to Mertens, 1967, Senckenb. Biol., 48(A): 49; given as SMF 4198 by Menzies, Tyler, and Zweifel, 1980, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 36: 231. Type locality: "Kaiserwilhelmsland, Neuguinea", now in the northern part of Papua New Guinea.

Oreophryne geislerorum — Menzies, Tyler, and Zweifel, 1980, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 36: 232, by implication.

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

English Names

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

Distribution

From the tip of the Huon Peninsula westward at least to Lae and the Wampit River and from there southeast at least as far as Kokoda and Popondetta, Northern Province, Papua New Guinea, 0-1400 m elevation.

Geographics occurrence

Natural resident: Papua New Guinea

Endemic to the political unit: Papua New Guinea

Comment

Van Kampen, 1919, Bijdr. Dierkd., 21: 54, thought that Cophixalus geislerorum might be an Oreophryne but declined to make the combination. Zweifel, Menzies, and Price, 2003, Am. Mus. Novit., 3415: 11, noted that this species had been confused in the literature with Oreophryne biroi in the literature. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 208-209, provided a brief account. Kraus, 2013, Herpetol. Rev., 44: 278, provided a record from Mount Victory, Northern Province, Papua New Guinea.

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