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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 victoriana (Boulenger, 1888)

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

Crinia victoriana Boulenger, 1888, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 2: 142. Holotype: Not stated, but by museum records BMNH 1947.2.19.66 (formerly 1888.7.3.13), according to Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 77, Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 14, and Tyler, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 404. Type locality: "Warragul, Gippsland, Victoria", Australia.

Crinia froggatti Fletcher, 1891, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, Ser. 2, 6: 275. Syntypes: 12 specimens mentioned in original publication; AMS R8338, R10326, R49776–83 considered syntypes by Cogger, 1979, Rec. Aust. Mus., 32: 167, and BMNH 1947.2.19.67 considered an additional syntype by Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 14. AMS R.49782 designated lectotype by Parkin, Donnellan, Parkin, Shea, and Rowley, 2023, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 189(107934): 15. Type locality: "Buninyong, and Gong Gong, near Ballarat, Victoria; common under logs in valleys", Australia. Synonymy by Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 76. Formerly placed by Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 542, in the synonymy of Geocrinia laevis.

Crinia laevis froggatti — Loveridge, 1935, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 78: 7.

Geocrinia victoriana — Blake, 1973, Aust. J. Zool., 21: 142; Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 2.

Common Names

Eastern Smooth Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 309; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 118; Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 91).

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

Distribution

Southeastern New South Wales, Australia, eastern and central Victoria to the Grampian Ranges in western Victoria, where a narrow hybrid zone is formed with Geocrinia laevis.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

Discussed by Littlejohn and Martin, 1964, Aust. J. Zool., 12: 75, who removed it from the synonymy of Crinia laevis. Littlejohn and Harrison, 1985, Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol., 16: 363–373, reported on the advertisement call. Hybrid zone with Geocrinia laevis discussed by Gollmann, 1991, Z. Zool. Syst. Evolutionsforsch., 29: 289–303. Gollmann and Gollmann, 1996, Herpetologica, 52: 181–187, reported on geographic variation in larval morphology. See Shea and Sadlier, 1999, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus., 15: 11, for discussion of types. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 118–119. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 91–92, provided a brief account, photograph, and polygon distribution map. Webster and Bool, 2022, Zootaxa, 5154: 127–151, summarized life history information (call, breeding, larval morphology) and phylogenetics of the taxon. See account by Parkin, Donnellan, Parkin, Shea, and Rowley, 2023, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 189(107934): 1–13.

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