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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 peronii (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)

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

Cystignathus peronii Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: 409. Type(s): Not designated formally, MNHNP 4499 (2 specimens) registered as syntypes (although 3 specimens mentioned in original publication) with MNHNP 4500 incorrectly cited as holotype by Guibé, 1950 "1948", Cat. Types Amph. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat.: 41. Type locality: "Nouvelle-Hollande?" (=Australia).

Limnodynastes peronii — Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 31. Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 134; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 259.

Wagleria peronii — Girard, 1853, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 6: 421.

Limnodynastes kreffti Günther, 1863, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 11: 26. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.18.71–75 (formerly 1863.6.16.85, 1863.6.16.89–91, and 1863.6.16.94) according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 19. Type locality: "neighbourhood of Sydney", New South Wales, Australia. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 259.

Borborocoetes peronii — Cope, 1866, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 94, by implication.

Limnodynastes krefti — Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 26. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Limnodynastes peronii var. krefftii — Keferstein, 1867, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 18: 345.

Limnodynastes lineatus De Vis, 1884, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 9: 65. Syntypes: 4 specimens, deposition not noted; BMNH 1947.2.18.76–77 (originally 1884.7.4.1-2) according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 19, and museum records. Type locality: "Mackay", Queensland, Australia. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1885, Zool. Rec., 21: 16; Boulenger, 1885, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 16: 386; Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 529. Considered distinct, without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 2.

Limnodynastes peronii peronii — Loveridge, 1935, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 78: 7.

Limnodynastes peronii lineatus — Loveridge, 1935, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 78: 7.

English Names

Brown-striped Frog (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 63; 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).

Striped Marsh Frog (Martin and Littlejohn, 1982, Tasman. Amph.: 7; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 104; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 191).

Striped Marshfrog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 223).

Brown Frog (Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 197; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 191).

Distribution

Coasts of northeastern Queensland (south of Cape York Peninsula), eastern New South Wales, Victoria, southeastern South Australia, and northern Tasmania, Australia.

Comment

See Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 197, for a review of this species. Tyler, 1978, Amph. S. Aust.: 65–66, provided an account. Martin and Littlejohn, 1982, Tasman. Amph.: 40–41, provided a brief account. Schäuble and Moritz, 2001, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 74: 57–170, reported on mtDNA geographic variation and its biogeographic implications. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 86–87. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 20, provided a polygon distribution map.

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