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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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Cyclorana Steindachner, 1867

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pelodryadidae > Genus: Cyclorana

14 species

Chiroleptes Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 34. Type species: Alytes australia Gray, 1842, by monotypy. Preoccupied by Chiroleptes Kirby, 1837 (Insecta). Synonymy (under Chiroleptes) by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 267; and Ogilby, 1907, Proc. R. Soc. Queensland, 20: 32; under Cyclorana by Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 15.

Cyclorana Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 29. Type species: Cyclorana novaehollandiae Steindachner, 1867, by monotypy. Synonymy (as a subgenus of Litoria) by 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: 205.

Phractops Peters, 1867, Monatsber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1867: 30. Type species: Phractops alutaceus Peters, 1867, by monotypy. Synonymy with Cyclorana by Günther, 1868, Zool. Rec., 4: 145 (although subsequently recognized); Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 267 (under Chiroleptes); Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 15. Synonymy with Dryopsophus by Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40. Synonymy with Cyclorana by Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 40.

Mitrolysis Cope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 312. Type species: Chiroleptes alboguttatus Günther, 1867, by original designation. Synonymy with Litoria by Tyler, 1974, Proc. R. Soc. Queensland, 85: 27, with Cyclorana by Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 20. Synonymy with Dryopsophus by Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40. Synonymy with Cyclorana by Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 40.

Cheiroleptes — Spencer, 1901, Proc. R. Soc. Victoria, 13: 176. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

Brendanura Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 4. Type species: Chiroleptes alboguttatus Günther, 1867, by original designation. Synonymy with Cyclorana by general acclamation. See Tyler, 1985, Herpetol. Rev., 16: 69; Australian Society of Herpetologists, 1987, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 44: 116–121; Tyler, 1988, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 45: 152; Holthius, 1988, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 45 and decision by ICZN (Anonymous, 1991, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 48: 337–338). Synonymy with Dryopsophus by Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40. Synonymy with Cyclorana by Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 40.

Neophractops Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5. Type species: Chiroleptes platycephalus Günther, 1873, by original designation. Synonymy with Cyclorana by general acclamation. Synonymy with Dryopsophus by Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40. Synonymy with Cyclorana by Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 40.

Cyclorana — Richards, Mahony, and Donnellan in Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 40.

Common Names

Striped Burrowing Frogs (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 49).

Water-holding Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 52).

Distribution

Northern two-thirds of Australia.

Comment

Australian frogs of the Cyclorana australis group were reviewed by Tyler and Martin, 1975, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 99: 93–99, and other species by Tyler and Martin, 1977, Rec. S. Aust. Mus., 17: 261–276. Resurrected from the synonymy of Ranoidea by Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 40, where it had been placed into Dryopsophus by Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40. Donellan et al. (2025) also placed this in their Cyclorana-Eremnoculus clade.

Contained taxa (14 sp.):

Cyclorana alboguttata (Günther, 1867)

Cyclorana australis (Gray, 1842)

Cyclorana brevipes (Peters, 1871)

Cyclorana cryptotis Tyler and Martin, 1977

Cyclorana cultripes Parker, 1940

Cyclorana longipes Tyler and Martin, 1977

Cyclorana maculosa Tyler and Martin, 1977

Cyclorana maini Tyler and Martin, 1977

Cyclorana manya Van Beurden and McDonald, 1980

Cyclorana novaehollandiae Steindachner, 1867

Cyclorana occidentalis Anstis, Price, Roberts, Catalano, Hines, Doughty, and Donnellan, 2016

Cyclorana platycephala (Günther, 1873)

Cyclorana vagitus Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981

Cyclorana verrucosa Tyler and Martin, 1977

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