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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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Platyplectrum ornatum (Gray, 1842)

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

Discoglossus ornatus Gray, 1842, Zool. Misc., Part 2: 56. Holotype: Not designated, but BMNH 1947.2.19.11 (formerly 1842.2.24.17) by museum records, according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 19, and Tyler, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 397. Type locality: "North coast of Australia; Port Essington", Northern Territory, Australia.

Perialia ornata — Gray, 1845, in Eyre, J. Exped. Discov. Cent. Aust. 1840–1841, Append.: 407.

Limnodynastes ornatus — Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 33.

Platyplectrum marmoratum Günther, 1863, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 11: 27. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.19.12 (formerly 63.6.16.96) by museum records, according to Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 50, and Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 19. Type locality: "Clarence River", New South Wales, Australia. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 262. Considered distinct, without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3.

Platyplectrum occidentale Cope, 1866, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 90. Holotype: Collection not designated, but presumably ANSP, USNM, or Philadelphia Mus. Type locality: "West Australia". Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 262. Considered distinct; without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3.

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

Platyplectrum ornatum — Keferstein, 1867, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 18: 345; Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 107; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 98.

Opisthodon frauenfeldi Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 9. Syntypes: NHMW (2 specimens); identified as NHMW 4699.1-2 by Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 26. Type locality: "Neu-Süd-wales", Australia; rendered as Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia by Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 30. Synonymy by Günther, 1867, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 20: 54; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 262. Considered distinct, without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3.

Platyplectron ornatus — Heyer and Liem, 1976, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 233: 22; Cogger, 1979, Rept. Amph. Aust., Ed. 2: 570. Lack of agreement in gender.

Opisthodon marmoratus — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3.

Opisthodon occidentalis — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3.

Opisthodon ornatus — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 3; 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: 195.

English Names

Ornate Frog (Waite, 1929, Rept. Amph. S. Aust.: 256; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Ornate Burrowing Frog (Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 193; Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 63; Tyler, Smith, and Johnstone, 1984, Frogs W. Aust.: 59; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 104; Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 223; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 189; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63; Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 107; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 98-99).

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

Distribution

Throughout northern half of New South Wales (from coast of far west), Queensland, northern half of Northern Territory, and northeastern Western Australia (Kimberley region), Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

See account by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 107. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 98–99. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 39, provided a polygon distribution map.

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