Subspecies Litoria raniformis raniformis (Keferstein, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chirodryas raniformis Keferstein, W. 1867. Ueber einige neue oder seltene Batrachier aus Australien und dem tropischen Amerika. Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 18: 341-361.

  Type data:

   Neotype AMS R45668 Adult male, Hay, 50 miles on Balranald Road, NSW [34.683° S; 144.05° E]
  Comment: Holotype ZMG 93h ((ex 111a), presumed lost, Australia. Deposited in Zoological Museum of the University of Göttingen, before it was moved to the Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig but the specimen has not been located at either institute.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Vörös, J., Wassens, S., Price, L., Hunter, D., Myers, S., Armstrong, K., Mahony, M.J. & Donnellan, S. 2023. Molecular systematic analysis demonstrates that the threatened southern bell frog, Litoria raniformis (Anura: Pelodryadidae) of eastern Australia, comprises two sub-species. Zootaxa 5228(1): 001–043.

Generic Combinations

• Litoria raniformis raniformis (Keferstein, 1867). —
  Vörös, J., Wassens, S., Price, L., Hunter, D., Myers, S., Armstrong, K., Mahony, M.J. & Donnellan, S. 2023. Molecular systematic analysis demonstrates that the threatened southern bell frog, Litoria raniformis (Anura: Pelodryadidae) of eastern Australia, comprises two sub-species. Zootaxa 5228(1): 001–043
• Litoria raniformis (Keferstein, 1867). —
  Cogger, H.G., in Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia and Reptilia. 313 pp. in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1 vi + 313 pp. [48]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Low open woodland, noctidiurnal, open forest, predator, swamp, tall forest, terrestrial, woodland.

History of changes