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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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Uperoleia crassa Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Myobatrachidae > Genus: Uperoleia > Species: Uperoleia crassa

Uperoleia crassa Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 29 (79): 34. Holotype: WAM R59951, by original designation. Type locality: "Amax Campsite, Mitchell Plateau (14° 15' S, 125° 50' E), Kimberley Division, Western Australia".

Uperoleia inundata Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 29 (79): 39. Holotype: SAMA R17182, by original designation. Type locality: "Jabiru, East Alligator River Region, Northern Territory (126° 28′ S, 132° 56′ E)", Australia. Synonymy by Jaya, Tanner, Whitehead, Doughty, Keogh, Moritz, and Catullo, 2022, Mol. Ecol., 31: 4538.

English Names

Forest Toadlet (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 95).

Fat Toadlet (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 322; Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 122; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 156–157).

Floodplain Gungan (Uperoleia inundata [no longer recognized]: Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 223; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Mottled Toadlet (Uperoleia inundata [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 95; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Flood Plain Toadlet (Uperoleia inundata [no longer recognized]: Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 325; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Floodplain Toadlet (Uperoleia inundata [no longer recognized]: Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 150).

Floodplain Upe (Uperoleia inundata [no longer recognized]: Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Northern Seep Frog (Uperoleia inundata [no longer recognized]: Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 63).

Distribution

Kimberley Division of Western Australia including Truscott, Mitchell Plateau, Prince Regent River Nature Reserve, Monington Station, and Drysdale River Station; floodplains east of extreme northern Western Australia east through northern Northern Territory to northwestern Queensland, Australia.

Comment

See account (as Uperoleia inundata) by Davies, McDonald, and Corben, 1986, Proc. R. Soc. Victoria, 98: 147–188. See brief accounts (as Uperoleia crassa and Uperoleia inundata) by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 150–151, 156–157. See account by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 122. See Ellis, Doughty, and Roberts, 2017, Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 32: 18, for comments on the type series. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 44–45, provided polygon distribution maps, as Uperoleia crassa and Uperoleia inundata. Jaya, Tanner, Whitehead, Doughty, Keogh, Moritz, and Catullo, 2022, Mol. Ecol., 31: 4527–4543, reported on mitogenomics, phylogeography, and unidirectional hybridization with Uperoleia borealis, as well as placing Uperoleia inundata into the synonymy of Uperoleia crassa.

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