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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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Mixophyes Günther, 1864

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Myobatrachidae > Genus: Mixophyes

9 species

Mixophyes Günther, 1864, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864: 46. also described as new by Günther, 1864, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 14: 311. Type species: Mixophyes fasciolatus Günther, 1864, by monotypy.

Myxophyes — Cope, 1864, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 16: 182. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Common Names

Barred Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94).

Great Barred Frogs (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 104).

Barred River Frogs (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 104).

Distribution

Eastern Australia and southern New Guinea.

Comment

See Straughan, 1968, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 93: 52-59, for a review and synonymies. 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, transferred Mixophyes from Limnodynastidae to Myobatrachidae, and considered it to be the sister taxon of Rheobatrachus. Roelants, Gower, Wilkinson, Loader, Biju, Guillaume, Moriau, and Bossuyt, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 887-892, on the basis of less inclusive sampling, a moderately different molecular dataset, and a different analytical method found Mixophyes to be in Limnodynastidae; this requires additional testing. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, suggested Mixophyes to be the sister taxon of all myobatrachids, with the exception of Rheobatrachus. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 94–98, provided an identification key, brief accounts, photographs, and polygon distribution maps of the Australian species.

Contained taxa (9 sp.):

Mixophyes australis Mahony, Bertozzi, Guzinski, Hines, and Donnellan, 2023

Mixophyes balbus Straughan, 1968

Mixophyes carbinensis Mahony, Donnellan, Richards, and McDonald, 2006

Mixophyes coggeri Mahony, Donnellan, Richards, and McDonald, 2006

Mixophyes fasciolatus Günther, 1864

Mixophyes fleayi Corben and Ingram, 1987

Mixophyes hihihorlo Donnellan, Mahony, and Davies, 1990

Mixophyes iteratus Straughan, 1968

Mixophyes schevilli Loveridge, 1933

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