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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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Papurana daemeli (Steindachner, 1868)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Ranidae > Genus: Papurana > Species: Papurana daemeli

Hylorana daemeli Steindachner, 1868, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Phys. Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 57: 532. Syntypes: NHMW 3244 (7 specimens), 16382 (2 specimens), according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 22, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 26. Type locality: "Cap-York [Queensland] in Australien".

Hylarana nebulosa Macleay, 1878, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 2: 137. Holotype: Presumed lost, incorrectly attributed to QM by Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 149-386, according to Covacevich, 1971, Mem. Queensland Mus., 16: 51. Fry, 1913, Mem. Queensland Mus., 2: 47, who examined the specimen, also attributed it to the QM. Type locality: "Cape York", Queensland, Australia. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 1: 242; Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 190.

Hyla nobilis De Vis, 1884, Proc. R. Soc. Queensland, 1: 129. Syntypes: Not designated, presumably originally in QM, now apparently lost; Type locality: "Cape York", Queensland, Australia. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 1: 242.

Rana novae-britanniae Werner, 1894, Zool. Anz., 17: 155. Holotype: Not stated; NHMW 33145, according to Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 32. Type locality: "Neu-Britannien". Synonymy with Rana kreffti by Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 1: 241 (tentative); Roux, 1918, Rev. Suisse Zool., 26: 411; Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 206-207. Synonymy with Rana daemeli by Menzies, 1987, Aust. J. Zool., 35: 399.

Rana daemeli — Boulenger, 1914, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 20: 250.

Rana (Hylorana) daemeli — Boulenger, 1918, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 9, 1: 238. Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 126, 190.

Rana (Hylarana) daemeli — Van Kampen, 1923, Amph. Indo-Austral. Arch.: 205.

Hylorana novae-britanniae — Deckert, 1938, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 1938: 145.

Rana papua novaebritanniae — Loveridge, 1948, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 101: 307.

Rana (Hylarana) daemeli — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 42, by implication.

Rana (Papurana) daemeli — Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 325.

Sylvirana daemeli — 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: 370.

Hylarana daemeli — Che, Pang, Zhao, Wu, Zhao, and Zhang, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 43: 3, by implication; Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 423.

Papurana daemeli — Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2010, Herpetol. Sinica, 12: 34. See comment under Ranidae record.

Papurana daemeli — Oliver, Prendini, Kraus, and Raxworthy, 2015, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 90: 187.

English Names

Wood Frog (Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia, Ed. 2: 113; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 377; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 64).

Australian Bullfrog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 223; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 64).

Australian Wood Frog (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 107; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 64).

Water Frog (Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 377; Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 64; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 126).

Arhem Rana (Reynolds, 2007, N. Terr. Nat., 19: 64).

Distribution

Entire New Guinea mainland, 0-1000 m elevation; New Hanover Island; New Britain I.; Yapen I.; Cape York Peninsula in northeastern Queensland and the northeastern border of the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory, Australia; Babar I.,

Comment

Prior to the revision of 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, placed in the Section Hylarana, subsection Hydrophylax, subgenus Papurana of Dubois, 1992, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 61: 324. See Menzies, 1992, Sci. New Guinea, 18: 119, for discussion of distribution in New Guinea. Removed from the synonymy of Rana papua by Boulenger, 1914, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, 20: XXX, where it had been placed by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 64. See account by Boulenger, 1920, Rec. Indian Mus., 20: 190. Günther, 2003, Faun. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd., Dresden, 24: 215, discussed the range and provided new records. Kraus and Allison, 2007, Herpetol. Monogr., 21: 33-75, provided an account. See comment under Hylarana milneana. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 126-127. Kraus, 2010, Herpetol. Rev., 41: 246-248, provided the record for New Hanover Island, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. Reilly, Arifin, Stubbs, Karin, Kaiser, Frederick, Arida, Iskandar, and McGuire, 2022, Zootaxa, 5150: 591–599, provided a genetically-confirmed record from Babar I. (east of Timor), Indonesia. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 37, provided a polygon distribution map for Australia.

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