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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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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
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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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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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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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Heleioporus australiacus (Shaw and Nodder, 1795)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Limnodynastidae > Genus: Heleioporus > Species: Heleioporus australiacus

Rana australiaca Shaw and Nodder, 1795, Nat. Miscell., 6 (Part 2): pl. 200. Type(s): According to Lee, 1967, Aust. J. Zool., 15: 389, the "original description based on drawing sent from Australia". Type locality: "New Holland" (= Australia).

Rana spinipes Schneider, 1799, Hist. Amph. Nat.: 129, 139. Type: Including frog illustrated by as Rana australiaca in Shaw and Nodder, 1794, Nat. Miscell., 6 (Part 1): fig. 200. Type locality: "insulis oceani Australiam" (= Australia). Synonymy by Fry, 1915, Proc. R. Soc. Queensland, 27: 71. Could be considered a substitute name for Rana australiaca although this name is not mentioned (DRF).

Rana australensis — Daudin, 1802 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 104. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Rana australiacus Shaw and Nodder, 1795.

Bufo spinipes — Daudin, 1802 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 104. Daudin, 1803 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Gen. Part. Rept., 8: 203.

Philocryphus flavoguttatus Fletcher, 1894, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, Ser. 2, 8: 233. Syntypes: AMS R29953-54 and MMUS R49-50 (those in the MMUZ considered lost) according to Shea and Sadlier, 1999, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus., 15: 14; AMS 29953 designated lectotype by Goldman, Hill, and Stanbury, 1969, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 93: 429. Type locality: "Couty of Cook—Mt. Victoria, Blue Mts. . . . , County of Cumberland—Thornleigh . . . , Dural near Parramatta . . . , near Manly", New South Wales, Australia. Lectotype from "Mt. Victoria, Blue Mountains, New South Wales", Australia. Synonymy by Fry, 1915, Proc. R. Soc. Queensland, 27: 71.

Heleioporus flavoguttatus — Fletcher, 1898, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, Ser. 2, 12: 679.

Philocryphus australiacus — Fry, 1915, Proc. R. Soc. Queensland, 27: 70. Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3.

Heleioporus australiacus — Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 182.

English Names

Spiny-footed Frog (Rana spinipes [no longer recognized]; Shaw, 1802, Gen. Zool., 3(1): 112).

Giant Burrowing Frog (Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 179; Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 57; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 206; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 74).

Distribution

Coast and eastern slope of the Great Dividing Range from the central coast of New South Wales to eastern Victoria, Australia, 0-1000 m elevation.

Comment

See Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 179, for account. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 421. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 74-75.

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