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* = "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
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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"
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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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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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Geocrinia laevis (Günther, 1864)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Myobatrachidae > Genus: Geocrinia > Species: Geocrinia laevis

Pterophrynus laevis Günther, 1864, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 48. also described as new by Günther, 1864, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 14: 314. Holotype: Not stated, but by museum records BMNH 1947.2.19.65 (formerly 1860.11.29.25), according to Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 76, Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 14, and Tyler, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 14. Type locality: "Van Dieman's Land" (= Tasmania), Australia.

Crinia laevis — Keferstein, 1868, Arch. Naturgesch., 34: 265; Günther, 1869 "1868", Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868: 480.

Crinia laevis laevis — Loveridge, 1935, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 78: 7, by implication; Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 75.

Geocrinia laevis — Blake, 1973, Aust. J. Zool., 21: 142.

English Names

Gunther's Ground Froglet (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94).

Tasmanian Smooth Frog (Martin and Littlejohn, 1982, Tasman. Amph.: 7).

Smooth Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 305; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 118).

Southern Smooth Frog (Parkin, Donnellan, Parkin, Shea, and Rowley, 2023, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 189(107934): 12).

Distribution

Widely distributed in central, northern and western Tasmania, including King Island. On the mainland, occurs across the southern coastline from Port Campbell, Victoria, in the east to Mount Burr, South Australia in the west.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

Discussed by Littlejohn and Martin, 1964, Aust. J. Zool., 12: 72. Hybrid zone with Geocrinia victoriana discussed by Gollmann, 1991, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 29: 289–303. Walker and Goonan, 2000, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 124: 135–139, discussed the distribution of the species. Tyler, 1978, Amph. S. Aust.: 59–60, provided an account. Martin and Littlejohn, 1982, Tasman. Amph.: 36–37, provided a brief account. Harrison and Littlejohn, 1985, Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 18: 67–73, reported on the advertisement call. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 118–119. Webster and Bool, 2022, Zootaxa, 5154: 127–151, summarized life history information (call, breeding, larval morphology) and phylogenetics of the taxon. Parkin, Donnellan, Parkin, Shea, and Rowley, 2023, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 189(107934): 1–13, partitioned Geocrinia sparsiflora from this species on the basis of molecular markers, comparative morphology, and advertisement call.

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