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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.
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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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Platyplectrum Günther, 1863

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Limnodynastidae > Genus: Platyplectrum

6 species

Platyplectrum Günther, 1863, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 11: 27. Type species: Platyplectrum marmoratum Günther, 1863, by monotypy.

Platyplectron — Peters, 1863, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1863: 235. Incorrect subsequent spelling, treated as a subgenus of Limnodynastes.

Opisthodon Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 9. Type species: Opisthodon frauenfeldi Steindachner, 1867, by monotypy. Synonymy by implication of Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 19, and Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 107.

Lechriodus Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 116. Replacement name for Batrachopsis Boulenger, 1882. Synonymy by Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 201.

Batrachopsis Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 439. Type species: Asterophrys melanopyga Doria, 1875 "1874", by monotypy (see Opinion 1063, Anonymous, 1976, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 33: 34-35). Preoccupied by Batrachopsis Fitzinger 1843.

Phanerotis Boulenger, 1890, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, Ser. 2, 5: 593. Type species: Phanerotis fletcheri Boulenger, 1890, by monotypy. Synonymy with Lechriodus by Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 24.

Common Names

Cannibal Frogs (Lechriodus [no longer recognized]: (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94).

Distribution

Australia and New Guinea; Aru Island.

Comment

Lechriodus reviewed by Zweifel, 1972, Am. Mus. Novit., 2507: 1-41, who also discussed phylogeny within the genus. Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 19, showed that Platyplectrum is a senior synonym of Opisthodon. See also Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 107). See Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2, for keys to species of nominal Lechriodus and accounts of Australian species. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, iuggested that Platyplectrum is paraphyletic with respect to Lechriodus. To render Limnodynastes monophyletic, Opisthodon (now Platyplectrum, the sister taxon of Lechriodus) was removed from the synonymy of Limnodynastes by Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297, where it had been placed by Günther, 1867, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 20: 54; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 258; Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 528. Opisthodon had been previously recognized; without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3. Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 429, placed Lechriodus into the synonymy of Platyplectrum to resolve the paraphyly of Platyplectrum.

Contained taxa (6 sp.):

Platyplectrum aganoposis (Zweifel, 1972)

Platyplectrum fletcheri (Boulenger, 1890)

Platyplectrum melanopyga (Doria, 1875)

Platyplectrum ornatum (Gray, 1842)

Platyplectrum platyceps (Parker, 1940)

Platyplectrum spenceri (Parker, 1940)

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