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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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Dryopsophus Fitzinger, 1843

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

10 species

Dryopsophus Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 30. Type species: "Hyla citropa Péron" (= Hyla citripoda Péron, 1807 = Hyla citropa Duméril and Bibron, 1841), by original designation.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Northeastern Queensland, Australia.

Comment

Resurrected without discussion by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5. To understand why Australian herpetologists resisted this taxonomic change 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). McDonald and Davies, 1990, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., 114: 149, provided a key to the members of the former Litoria citropa species group, and Donnellan, McGuigan, Knowles, Mahony, and Moritz, 1999, Aust. J. Zool., 47: 275–293, reported on genetic evidence for species boundaries in the former Litoria citropa group. Removed 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): 44, on the basis of phylogenetic (molecular and adult and larval morphology) evidence, placing it in their Cyclorana-Eremnoculus clade, and noted that this taxon represents of the Litoria maculata and Litoria maculata groups of Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 1–47.

Contained taxa (10 sp.):

Dryopsophus barringtonensis (Copland, 1957)

Dryopsophus citropa (Péron, 1807)

Dryopsophus daviesae (Mahony, Knowles, Foster, and Donnellan, 2001)

Dryopsophus kroombitensis (Hoskin, Hines, Meyer, Clarke, and Cunningham, 2013)

Dryopsophus nudidigitus (Copland, 1963)

Dryopsophus pearsonianus (Copland, 1961)

Dryopsophus phyllochrous (Günther, 1863)

Dryopsophus piperatus (Tyler and Davies, 1985)

Dryopsophus spenceri (Dubois, 1984)

Dryopsophus subglandulosus (Tyler and Anstis, 1983)

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