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
	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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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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Paedophryne Kraus, 2010

Class: Amphibia > Order: Anura > Family: Microhylidae > Subfamily: Asterophryinae > Genus: Paedophryne

7 species

Paedophryne Kraus, 2010, ZooKeys, 48: 41. Type species: Paedophryne kathismaphlox Kraus, 2010, by original designation.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Known from one mountains of southeastern Papua New Guinea (Milne Bay Province) and from one mountain on nearby Fergusson Island, D’Entrecasteaux Islands.

Comment

See comments under Cophixalus and Paedophryne. Kraus, 2011, ZooKeys, 154: 77, provided a map of the four species known at the time. Kraus, 2015, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 745: 1-11, discussed relationships of the taxon. Tu, Yang, Liang, and Zhang, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 126: 87, found Paedophryne to render Oreophryne paraphyletic. Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021, Megataxa, 5: 418, recovered Paedophryne as monophyletic, the sister taxon of Barygenus exsul. These authors essentially threw up their hands at the phylogenetic and taxonomic chaos that is asterophryine genera and placed Paedophryne as a synonymy of a very enlarged Asterophrys.

Contained taxa (7 sp.):

Paedophryne amauensis Rittmeyer, Allison, Gründler, Thompson, and Austin, 2012

Paedophryne dekot Kraus, 2011

Paedophryne kathismaphlox Kraus, 2010

Paedophryne oyatabu Kraus, 2010

Paedophryne swiftorum Rittmeyer, Allison, Gründler, Thompson, and Austin, 2012

Paedophryne titan Kraus, 2015

Paedophryne verrucosa Kraus, 2011

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