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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.
* = "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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Pseudophryne bibronii Günther, 1859

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Myobatrachidae > Genus: Pseudophryne > Species: Pseudophryne bibronii

Bufo proteus Péron, 1807, Voy. Decouvertes aux Terres Aust., 1: 406. Type(s): Not stated but MNHNP RA-0.518 and RA-2008.323 are syntypes according to Shea and Rowley, 2018, Zootaxa, 4407: 58. Type locality: "Paramatta . . . Nouvelle-Hollande". Nomen nudum. Synonymy by Shea and Rowley, 2018, Zootaxa, 4407: 58.

Pseudophryne bibronii Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 46. Syntypes: As discussed by Shea and Rowley, 2018, Zootaxa, 4407: 54–59, of the original five BMNH specimens, of which three are lost (of which two would have been Pseudophryne semimarmorata) and the surviving specimens, BMNH 1936.12.3.131 (reregistered 1947.2.20.20) and BMNH 58.11.25.59 (reregistered 1947.2.20.18) are Pseudophryne guentheri. The type series also includes includes the specimens (MNHNP RA-0.518 and RA-2008.323) reported, and misidentified, as Phryniscus australis by Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 6: 725, according to Shea and Rowley, 2018, Zootaxa, 4407: 51–64, who designated MNHNP RA-2008.323 lectotype. Type localities: Australia; van Diemen's Land [= Tasmania] (BMNH specimens) and "Port Jackson" (= Sydney) (MNHNP specimens, including the lectotype); restricted to "Parramatta, near Sydney" by Shea and Rowley, 2018, Zootaxa, 4407: 58.

Pseudophryne australis forma bibroni — Andersson, 1916, K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 52: 9, 12.

Pseudophryne barkeri Wells and Wellington, 1989, Aust. Herpetologist, 506: 5. Types: not designated. Type locality: "Horsley Park", New South Wales, Australia. Synonymy by Shea and Rowley, 2018, Zootaxa, 4407: 58.

English Names

Brown Toadlet (Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 240; Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 76; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 95; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 267).

Bibron's Toadlet (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 267; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 134).

Distribution

Southern and eastern Australia from southeastern corner of Queensland along the east coast of New South Wale, and into central Victoria and South Australia (including Kangaroo Island), 20–1000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

See Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 25, and Shea and Rowley, 2018, Zootaxa, 4407: 51–64, for discussion of nomenclatural confusion with Pseudophryne guentheri. See Tyler, 1978, Amph. S. Aust.: 50–53, for account. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 134–135. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 39, provided a polygon distribution map.

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