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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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Limnodynastes tasmaniensis Günther, 1858

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Superfamily: Myobatrachoidea > Family: Limnodynastidae > Genus: Limnodynastes > Species: Limnodynastes tasmaniensis

Limnodynastes tasmaniensis Günther, 1858, Arch. Naturgesch., 24: 321. Syntypes: Including BMNH 1947.2.19.1–3 (formerly 1845.5.2.34–36), according to Tyler, 1985, in Frost (ed.), Amph. Species World: 398; Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 20, recorded 7 syntypes (BMNH 1947.2.18.96–99, 1947.2.19.1–3), but also noted that the description by Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 33, cited only 6. BMNH museum records list 1947.2.18.96–999 and 1947.2.19.1–3 as syntypes. (The earliest description in 1858 gives only measurement for a single specimen—DRF.) Type locality: "Van Diemans Land"; rendered as "Tasmania" and "New Holland [=Australia]" by Günther, 1859 "1858", Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus.: 33.

Limnodynastes affinis Günther, 1863, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 11: 27. Holotype: BMNH 1947.2.19.16 (originally 1863.6.16.86), according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 20, and museum records. Type locality: "Clarence River", New South Wales, Australia. Synonymy by Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 260; Nieden, 1923, Das Tierreich, 46: 531. Considered distinct; without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 2.

Limnodynastes platycephalus Günther, 1867, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 20: 54. Syntypes: BMNH 1947.2.19.4–5 (originally 1864.10.27.54–55), according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 20, and museum records. Type locality: "Adelaide", South Australia. Synonymy by Waite, 1929, Rept. Amph. S. Aust.: 250; and Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 52. Considered distinct, without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 2.

Limnodynastes peronii var. tasmaniensis — Keferstein, 1867, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 18: 344.

Limnodynastes peronii var. rugulosus Keferstein, 1867, Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen, 18: 344. Syntypes: ZFMK 28332–28337, according to Cogger, Cameron, and Cogger, 1983, Zool. Cat. Aust., Amph. Rept., 1: 20, and Böhme, 2014, Mertensiella, 21: 95. Type locality: "Sydney", New South Wales, Australia. Synonymy by Parker, 1940, Novit. Zool., 42: 52. Considered distinct; without discussion, by Wells and Wellington, 1985, Aust. J. Herpetol., Suppl. Ser., 1: 2.

Limnodynastes tasmanicus — M'Coy, 1867, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 3, 20: 182. Error for Limnodynastes tasmaniensis.

Limnodynastes tasmaniensis var. platycephalus — Waite, 1929, Rept. Amph. S. Aust.: 250.

English Names

Spotted Grass Frog (Moore, 1961, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 121: 203; Cogger, 1975, Rept. Amph. Australia: 64; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 104; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 94; Barker, Grigg, and Tyler, 1995, Field Guide Aust. Frogs., Ed. 2: 197; Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 82).

Spotted Marsh Frog (Martin and Littlejohn, 1982, Tasman. Amph.: 7; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 104).

Spotted Marshfrog (Ingram, Nattrass, and Czechura, 1993, Mem. Queensland Mus., 33: 223).

Marbled Frog (Waite, 1929, Rept. Amph. S. Aust.: 251; Tyler, Smith, and Johnstone, 1984, Frogs W. Aust.: 61; Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 104).

Distribution

Tasmania, Victoria, eastern South Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland; introduced into Western Australia and the Northern Territory, Australia.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Australia

Endemic: Australia

Introduced: Australia

Comment

Littlejohn and Roberts, 1975, Aust. J. Zool., 23: 113, recognized the three 'call races' within this species; their taxonomic status is uncertain. Discussed by Tyler, 1978, Amph. S. Aust.: 68–70. Martin and Littlejohn, 1982, Tasman. Amph.: 42–43, provided a brief account for the Tasmanian population. Schäuble and Moritz, 2001, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 74: 157–170, reported on mtDNA geographic variation and its biogeographic implications. Daly, 2005, Herpetofauna, Sydney, 35: 85–86, reported the species from the Jervis Bay region of New South Wales, Australia. See brief account by Tyler and Knight, 2009, Field Guide Frogs Aust.: 82–83. Cutajar, Portway, Gillard, and Rowley, 2022, Tech. Rep. Aust. Mus. Online, 36: 20, provided a polygon distribution map.

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