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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 Tschudi, 1838

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

5 species

Ranoidea Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 35, 76. Type species: Ranoidea jacksoniensis Tschudi, 1838, by monotypy. Synonymy with Hyla by Steindachner, 1867, Reise Österreichischen Fregatte Novara, Zool., Amph.: 61. Resurrected; without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5. 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). Wrongly considered by Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 37, to be a rejected name, Ranoidea.

Polyphone Gistel, 1848, Naturgesch. Thierr.: xi. Substitute name for Ranoidea Tschudi, 1838.

Chirodryas Keferstein, 1867, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 18: 358. Type species: Chirodryas raniformis Keferstein, 1867, by monotypy. Synonymy (with Hyla sensu lato) by Keferstein, 1868, Arch. Naturgesch., 34: 279; Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 337. Synonymy with Dryopsophus by Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40. Synonymy with Ranoidea by Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 65.

Fanchonia Werner, 1893, Zool. Anz., 16: 81–84. Type species: Fanchonia elegans Werner, 1893, by monotypy. Synonymy with Hyla by Werner, 1897, Zool. Anz., 20: 266. Synonymy with Dryopsophus by Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40. Synonymy with Ranoidea by Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 65.

Common Names

None noted.

Distribution

Australia, New Guinea, Moluccas, and Louisiade Archipelago.

Comment

The generic name Ranoidea has a difficult history, so readers are advised to use caution with the literature. Papuan species were reviewed (as Hyla) by Tyler, 1968, Zool. Verh., Leiden, 96: 1–203; Australian state checklists provided by Tyler, 1989, Aust. Frogs. Tyler, 1982, in Newman (ed.), New Zealand Wildlife Serv. Occas Publ., 2: 103–112, provided a general summary of Litoria (sensu lato) systematics. Ranoidea was removed from the synonymy of Litoria by Duellman, Marion, and Hedges, 2016, Zootaxa, 4104: 40, where it had been placed by Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 30 (as Hyla). Resurrected; without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 5, and then largely treated as a synonym of Litoria by Australian workers; 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). Species groups noted in the species accounts were delimited by Tyler and Davies, 1978, Aust. J. Zool., Suppl. Ser., 27 (63): 1–47. Donnellan, Mahony, Esquerré, Brennan, Price, Lemmon, Lemmon, Günther, Monis, Bertozzi, Keogh, Shea, and Richards, 2025, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 204(2: zlaf015): 1–80, placed this in their Cyclorana-Eremnocolus clade.

Contained taxa (5 sp.):

Ranoidea aurea (Lesson, 1829)

Ranoidea castanea (Steindachner, 1867)

Ranoidea cyclorhynchus (Boulenger, 1882)

Ranoidea moorei (Copland, 1957)

Ranoidea raniformis (Keferstein, 1867)

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