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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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Ranoidea barringtonensis (Copland, 1957)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Pelodryadidae > Subfamily: Pelodryadinae > Genus: Ranoidea > Species: Ranoidea barringtonensis

Hyla phyllochroa barringtonensis Copland, 1957, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 82: 45. Holotype: AMS R9502, according to Duellman, 1977, Das Tierreich, 95: 137, and Cogger, 1979, Rec. Aust. Mus., 32: 175. Type locality: "Cutler's Pass, Williams River, N[ew]. S[outh]. W[ales].", Australia. See comment.

Dryopsophus barringtonensis — Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5; Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40.

Litoria barringtonensis — Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 60, without discussion; Hoskin, Hines, Meyer, Clarke, and Cunningham, 2013, Zootaxa, 3646: 426–446.

Ranoidea barringtonensis — Dubois and Frétey, 2016, Dumerilia, 6: 21.

English Names

Barrington Tops Frog (Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 60).

Distribution

Northeastern New South Wales in the vicinity of Gosford, Australia.

Comment

Litoria barringtonensis is sympatric with Litoria phyllochroa according to Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5, with which it had been synonymized by Tyler, 1971, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 19: 352. Donnellan, McGuigan, Knowles, Mahony, and Moritz, 1999, Aust. J. Zool., 47: 289, implied that association of this name with known species is problematic because the type is a juvenile, with the result that Hyla phyllochroa barringtonensis Copland, 1957, might be a senior synonym of Litoria pearsoniana or a junior synonym of Litoria phyllochroa. Nevertheless, Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 60-61, recognized the species as distinct and provided a means to recognize it, so it is recognized here. Moreover, Hoskin, Hines, Meyer, Clarke, and Cunningham, 2013, Zootaxa, 3646: 426–446, discussed this species in comparison with Litoria kroombitensis and Litoria personiana and solidified the identification of the holotype and the validity of the nomenclatural recognition of this population.

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