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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 dumerilii Peters, 1863

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

Limnodynastes (Platyplectron) dumerilii Peters, 1863, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 235. Syntypes: ZMB 4727 (2 specimens), 4728 (3 specimens), and AMNH 23590 (formerly of ZMB 4727), according to Bauer, Günther, and Robeck, 1996, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 72: 269. Type locality: "Buchsfelde [=Loos] bei Adelaide in Südaustralien", South Australia.

Limnodynastes bibronii Krefft, 1865, Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasmania, 1865: 16. Error for Limnodynastes dumerilii.

Platyplectrum dumerilii — Keferstein, 1868, Arch. Naturgesch., 34: 262.

Heliorana superciliaris — Keferstein, 1868, Arch. Naturgesch., 34: 267.

Limnodynastes dumerilii — Günther, 1868, Zool. Rec., 4: 145.

Limnodynastes dorsalis var. dumerilii — Fry, 1913, Rec. Aust. Mus., 10: 23; Waite, 1929, Rept. Amph. S. Aust.: 252.

Limnodynastes dorsalis dumerilii — Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 48; Loveridge, 1935, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 78: 21.

Limnodynastes dorsalis insularis Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 47. Syntypes: BMNH 1901.9.13.1 (renumbered as BMNH 1947.2.19.8) (Near Launceton) by museum records, MCZ 19258 (not 19238 as cited in the original publication according to Barbour and Loveridge, 1946, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 96: 144) (Eagle Hawk Neck) and MCZ 19330 (Tasmania), by original designation. Type localities: "Near Launceton", "Eagle Hawk Neck, Tasmania", and "Tasmania).

Limnodynastes dumerili dumerili — Martin, 1972, Aust. J. Zool., 20: 174.

Limnodynastes dumerili insularis — Martin, 1972, Aust. J. Zool., 20: 178.

Limnodynastes dumerili variegatus Martin, 1972, Aust. J. Zool., 20: 181. Holotype: AMS R32742 (formerly MUZD 692/66) according to Shea and Sadlier, 1999, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus., 15: 13. Type locality: "6.4 km N. of Cape Otaway, Vic[toria].", Australia.

Limnodynastes dumerilii fryi Martin, 1972, Aust. J. Zool., 20: 182. Holotype: AMS R32747 (formerly MZUD 1195/65) according to Shea and Sadlier, 1999, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus., 15: 13. Type locality: "Thredbo River valley 9.6 km NE. of Thredbo Village, Snowy Mountains, N[ew]. S[outh]. W[ales]. (altitude c. 1370 m)", Australia.

Platyplectrum dumerilii — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3.

Platyplectrum fryi — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3. Elevation to species status without discussion.

Platyplectrum insularis — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3. Disagreement in gender. Elevation to species status without discussion.

Platyplectrum variegatus — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3. Disagreement in gender. Elevation to species status without discussion.

Common Names

Eastern Banjo Frog (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 61; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 104; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 84; Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 48).

Pobblebonk (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 104; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 181).

Bull Frog (Waite, 1929, Rept. Amph. S. Aust.: 252; Martin and Littlejohn, 1982, Tasman. Amph.: 44).

Grey-bellied Pobblebonk (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 223).

Bullfrog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 181).

Southern Bull Frog (Limnodynastes dumerilii insularis: Martin and Littlejohn, 1982, Tasman. Amph.: 8).

Mottled Bull Frog (Limnodynastes dumerilii variegatus: Martin and Littlejohn, 1982, Tasman. Amph.: 8).

Distribution

Tasmania; southeastern South Australia (including Kangaroo Island) through Victoria and eastern New South Wales to extreme southeastern Queensland, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

See comment under Limnodynastes dorsalis. Literature prior to 2024 may include what are now recognized as Limnodynastes grayi and Limnodynastes superciliaris. See Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 183, for account and key to subspecies. Tyler, 1978, Amph. S. Aust.: 61–63, provided accounts. Martin and Littlejohn, 1982, Tasman. Amph.: 44-45, provided a brief account for the Tasmanian population. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 84-85, who provided a key to the nominal subspecies. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 48, 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.

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