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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 vagitus Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981

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

Cyclorana vagitus Tyler, Davies, and Martin, 1981, Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 9: 148. Holotype: WAM R71037, by original designation. Type locality: "junction of the Great Northern Highway and the road to Derby, 41 km S of Derby, 124° 38′ E, 17° 44′ S, Kimberley Division", Western Australia.

Litoria (Cyclorana) vagitus — 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: 362.

Cyclorana vagita — Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 20. Incorrect subsequent spelling of species name (see comment).

Dryopsophus vagitus — Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40.

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

Cyclorana vagitus — Mahony, Donnellan, and Richards 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

Wailing Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 170; Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 46; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 20; Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 141; Anstis, 2026, Tadpoles & Frogs Australia, 3rd Ed.: 158).

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

Distribution

Kimberley Division, Western Australia, and extreme northwestern Northern Territory, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Comment

The species name is a noun in apposition. See account by Tyler and Doughty, 2009, Field Guide Frogs W. Aust., 4th ed.: 46, and brief account by See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 20–21. See Ellis, Doughty, and Roberts, 2017, Rec. W. Aust. Mus., 32: 21, for comments on the type series. Cogger, 2018, Rept. Amph. Australia, 7th ed.: 141, provided a brief account (as Cyclorana longipes), photograph, and polygon distribution map. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 16, provided a polygon distribution map (as Cyclorana vagitus). Anstis, 2026, Tadpoles & Frogs Australia, 3rd Ed.: 158–160, provided an account, including adult and larval morphology, natural history, and a polygon distribution map.

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