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
	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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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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Limnodynastes convexiusculus (Macleay, 1878)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Limnodynastidae > Genus: Limnodynastes > Species: Limnodynastes convexiusculus

Ranaster convexiusculus Macleay, 1878, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 2: 135. Type(s): Not traced; reported as in the QM by Fry, 1913, Mem. Queensland Mus., 2: 46,and Goldman, Hill, and Stanbury, 1969, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 93: 429 this discussed and rejected by Covacevich, 1971, Mem. Queensland Mus., 16: 51; presumed lost by Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 17. Type locality: "Katow", Papua New Guinea; given as "Mawatta, Binaturi River, near Daru, Papua New Guinea (as Katow)" by Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 17.

Limnodynastes olivaceus De Vis, 1884, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 9: 66. Holotype: Not stated; BMNH 1947.2.18.78 (formerly 1895.9.2.25) according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 17. Type locality: "Mackay", Queensland, Australia. Synonymy with Limnodynastes tasmaniensis by Loveridge, 1935, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 78: 7; with Limnodynastes convexiusculus by Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 17. Recognized; without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3.

Phanerotis novae-guineae Van Kampen, 1909, Nova Guinea, 9: 36. Syntypes: 5 specimens, all formerly in MZB, now AMS R6693 (according to Cogger, 1979, Rec. Aust. Mus., 32: 171), ZMA 5874 and FMNH (according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 59), according to Van Tuijl, 1995, Bull. Zool. Mus. Univ. Amsterdam, 14: 128, also MCZ and MZB Amph. 223 according to Iskandar and Mumpuni, 2003 "2002", Hamadryad, 27: 125, who discussed the distribution of the former syntypes. Type locality: "Merauke", Irian Jaya (New Guinea), Indonesia. Synonymy by Fry, 1913, Mem. Queensland Mus., 2: 47; Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 535.

Limnodynastes convexiusculus — Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 54.

Ranaster convexiusculus — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 4.

Ranaster olivaceus — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 4.

Common Names

Marbled Frog (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 60; Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 223; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 176; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63; Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 62; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 86; Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 45).

Convex Southern Frog (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 104).

Australian Marbled Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Garden Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Tropical Garden Frog (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Distribution

Dry seasonal dry woodlands of southern New Guinea (Papua, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea) between Doak (Frederik Hendrik) Island and Wimpim near the mouth of the Fly River, also on Daru Island; northern tropical Australia from northeastern Western Australia to coastal eastern Queensland, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

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

Comment

See account by Davies and Watson, 1994, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 118: 149–169. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 62–63, provided a brief account for New Guinea. See account for Western Australia by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 62. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 86–87. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 45, provided a brief account, photograph, and polygon distribution map. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 19, provided a polygon distribution map for Australia.

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