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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
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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Philoria loveridgei Parker, 1940

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Limnodynastidae > Genus: Philoria > Species: Philoria loveridgei

Philoria loveridgei Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 60. Holotype: BMNH 1933.4.8.6, by original designation; renumbered BMNH 1947.2.19.94 according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 24, and Tyler, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 395. Type locality: "McPherson Range, 3–4,000 ft., S[outh]. Queensland", Australia. Shea, 2005, Mem. Queensland Mus., 51: 524, discussed the itinerary of the collector and suggested that the type locality lies within Lamington National Park, within that part of the park that is within the known distribution of the species.

Kyarranus loveridgei — Moore, 1958, Am. Mus. Novit., 1919: 7.

Philoria loveridgei — Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 24; Knowles, Mahony, Armstrong, and Donnellan, 2004, Rec. Aust. Mus., 56: 57.

English Names

Loveridge's Frog (Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 216; Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 74; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 247; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 78).

Masked Mountain-frog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 223).

Distribution

Endemic to Australia: Rainforests of the Tweed caldera, a landform comprising the eroded caldera and central cone of the ancient Tweed Volcano; the northern rim of the caldera is the eastern McPherson Range that includes the Lamington and Springbrook Plateaus in Queensland, while the western rim forms the Tweed Range in NSW, and the southern rim the Nightcap Range in New South Wales, with Wollumbin in New South Wales the central cone of the volcano/

Geographics occurrence

Natural resident: Australia

Endemic to the political unit: Australia

Comment

See account by Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 216. Knowles, Mahony, Armstrong, and Donnellan, 2004, Rec. Aust. Mus., 56: 65, noted some incertainty as to whether the holotype is conspecific with populations currently referred to as Philoria loveridgei or Philoria richmondensis. 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: 424. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 78–79. See account by Mahony, Hines, Bertozzi, Bradford, Mahony, Newell, Clarke, and Donnellan, 2022, Zootaxa, 5104: 229–231. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 38, provided a polygon distribution map.

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